Sensor kits and associated methods for monitoring and managing underwater industrial settings

A method of monitoring an underwater industrial setting using a sensor kit including an edge device and a plurality of sensors, the method comprising:

• receiving, by an edge processing system of the edge device, reporting packets from a plurality of sensors via a self-configuring sensor kit network, each reporting packet containing routing data and one or more instances of sensor data captured by a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors, wherein the plurality of sensors includes two or more sensor types selected from the group comprising:
• infrared sensors, sonar sensors, LIDAR sensors, water penetrating sensors, light sensors, strain sensors, rust sensors, biological sensors, temperature sensors, chemical sensors, valve integrity sensors, vibration sensors, flow sensors, cavitation sensors, pressure sensors, weight sensors, and camera sensors;
• performing, by the edge processing system, one or more edge operations on the instances of sensor data in the reporting packets;
• generating, by the edge processing system, sensor kit packets based on the one or more edge operations on the instances of sensor data in the reporting packets;
• and
• transmitting, by the edge processing system, the sensor kit packets to an edge communication system of the edge device, wherein the edge communication system transmits the sensor kit packets to a backend system via a public network.