Fincantieri and WSense announce that they have signed a strategic agreement aimed at strengthening the Group’s capabilities in offering cutting-edge systems for underwater applications. The agreement provides, on the one hand, for the joint development of advanced wireless technology solutions for the underwater sector and, on the other, for a commercial agreement for the application of these solutions to environmental monitoring through Fincantieri Infrastructure.
Specifically, the agreement allows Fincantieri to integrate WSense technologies into the DEEP system for monitoring and protecting critical infrastructure, reducing the need for cabling and thus mitigating one of the main vulnerabilities of traditional systems. This innovation increases the resilience of sensitive facilities, offering a more secure, flexible and easily implementable solution. At the same time, the commercial agreement provides for the use of WSense technologies in environmental monitoring and structural integrity control in the civil sector through Fincantieri Infrastructure, representing a product innovation with a significant impact in terms of effectiveness, safety and efficiency.
The agreement is part of the already established relationship between the Group and WSense, following Fincantieri’s investment in the company in April 2025, strengthening a synergy based on complementary skills: on the one hand, Fincantieri’s ability to integrate and orchestrate complex solutions, and on the other, WSense’s specialist know-how in wireless networks and underwater monitoring systems. With this operation, Fincantieri consolidates its position in the underwater sector with integrated solutions and as a benchmark for the development of cutting-edge technologies.
Pierroberto Folgiero, CEO and General Manager of Fincantieri, said in a statement: “Today’s agreement significantly strengthens our strategy for developing the underwater economy, an area in which the ability to transform cutting-edge national technologies into solutions is a decisive competitive factor. Our long-standing collaboration with WSense, a deep tech company in which we are committed investors, enables us to enable underwater wireless telecommunications in our next-generation products, increasing the resilience, security and sustainability of critical strategic infrastructure. This is a further step in Fincantieri’s journey as an orchestrator of complex technological ecosystems and a leading industrial platform for underwater technological sovereignty, serving the dual industry, the environment and the country as a whole.
Chiara Petrioli, CEO of WSense, (pictured with Folgiero) states: “We are delighted with this commercial partnership, which confirms WSense’s role as a leader in innovation in the underwater sector and allows us, together with a national industrial excellence such as Fincantieri, to bring to market cutting-edge wireless systems for the surveillance, protection and sustainable management of underwater infrastructure, and the creation of innovative services for the blue economy. We are convinced that the innovation chain that is taking shape will position Italy among the leaders of the Internet of Underwater Things revolution, in an increasingly strategic area for the global economy, at the centre of the development of future digital highways.”
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