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title: "Where Mru Field applies"
url: https://mru.space/use-cases/
description: "Fifteen settings where equipment has two or more processors, runs unattended for months, and a repair visit is slow or costly. Ocean settings first."
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[Mru](https://mru.space/) / [Mru Field](https://mru.space/field/) / Use cases

Mru Field · Use cases

# Where Mru Field runs

Anywhere a computer has to keep working after its parts fail, and a repair visit is slow, costly or impossible.

Mru fits when the equipment has two or more processors, must run unattended for months or longer, and a repair visit is slow, costly or impossible. Ocean settings are our first priority.

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Seafloor

## Deep-sea observatories

Batteries, a cable, and one service visit a year.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/deep-sea-observatories/)[

Surface

## Ocean buoys and moorings

Years at sea between services, on solar power.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/ocean-buoys/)[

Autonomous

## Profiling floats and gliders

Deployed once, rarely recovered.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/profiling-floats/)[

Vehicles

## Autonomous underwater vehicles

Out of contact, with no way to swap a board.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/auv/)

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Offshore

## Offshore wind

Every repair needs a vessel and a weather window.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/offshore-wind/)[

Grid

## Remote energy and grid equipment

Replacement parts take years. Sites are far from crews.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/remote-energy/)[

Nuclear

## Nuclear facility monitoring

Access limited by dose. Parts age under radiation.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/nuclear-monitoring/)[

Long-term

## Nuclear-waste repositories

Monitoring for decades, then far longer.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/nuclear-waste/)

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Telecom

## Remote telecom sites

Sites placed for coverage, not for access.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/remote-telecom/)[

Satellite IoT

## Satellite-linked remote devices

Small power budgets, links measured in bytes.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/satellite-iot/)[

Pipelines

## Pipelines

Hundreds of kilometres of remote stations.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/pipelines/)[

Rail

## Rail trackside equipment

Far from depots, serviced in short windows.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/rail-trackside/)

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Polar

## Polar stations and sensor networks

No access for months of the year.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/polar-stations/)[

Geophysics

## Volcano and seismic stations

Stations matter most when access is hardest.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/volcano-seismic/)[

Preservation

## Long-term archives

Storage decays faster than the records must last.

](https://mru.space/use-cases/long-term-archives/)