Category Archives: Research & Development

The ‘failsafe’ design changes inside Airwave 2.0

After a successful phase one trial, the team at Waveco returned to the drawing board, making some essential design changes to Airwave 2.0. While the original design was modelled on a bathroom light fitting, the second iteration is taking lessons from their real-world ocean trial in 2019. Airwave’s founder, Troy Bottegal, reflects on the experiment,…

A closer look at Airwave’s first ocean trial

In a world-first ocean experiment, Waveco successfully submerged Airwave underwater for five days.  It was another fair-weather day in the idyllic regional port city of Bunbury, Western Australia. A light breeze blew over the sand as light sparkled over the water. What many of the locals didn’t realise, is that a groundbreaking experiment was taking place…