Offshore control system testing faces a persistent challenges: the unavailability of actual sensors during critical system integration and validation phases. projects struggle with:

• Project delays when specialized sensors aren’t available for testing
• Costly logistics to transport fragile, expensive sensors to testing facilities
• Inability to simulate sensor failures and edge cases with actual hardware
• Configuration complexity when trying to replicate multiple sensor types
• The need for separate simulation tools for different communication protocols
• Risk of damage to expensive production sensors during testing

These limitations force teams to either delay testing until all components are available or perform incomplete validation, creating significant project risks and potential field failures.

Tesla Subsea’s Universal Sensor Simulator Interface (USSI) addresses these challenges with a comprehensive simulation platform that emulates multiple sensors simultaneously across various protocols. Its intuitive software interface allows engineers to simulate normal operations, fault conditions, and edge cases without requiring physical sensors, eliminating hardware configuration changes between projects and dramatically reducing setup time while enabling thorough testing under all potential operating conditions.