UNDERWATER WIRELESS

BY: MITALI BHOPALTOPIC: UNDERWATER WIRELESS ITP (LAB)

We can use Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN):• Ocean Sampling Networks• Environmental Monitoring• Undersea Explorations• Disaster Prevention• Assisted Navigation• Distributed Tactical Surveillance

Engineer explores underwater wireless communications.• Sending and receiving message below water. • The most common is using hydrophones.• Under water communication is difficult due:1. to factors like multi-path propagation,2. to time variations of the channel.

Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UW-ASN) • Is the enabling technology for these applications.• Consist of a variable number of sensors. • Unexplored area although underwater communications.• Experimented since World War II in 1945,• An underwater telephone was developed in the United States.

Major challenges in the design of UW-ASN are:•The available bandwidth is severely limited; •Prone to failures because of fouling; •The available bandwidth is severely limited;•High bit error rates can be experienced;•Usually batteries can not be recharged

• Wireless information transmission through the ocean Is one of the enabling technologies for The development of future ocean-observation systems.• Underwater wireless sensing systems are envisionedFor stand-alone applications and Control of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).

Wireless Controller Underwater Robot Swims• A waterproof tablet controller designed and built by York University researchers is allowing an underwater robot to go “wireless” in a unique way.• Divers can program the tablet to display tags onscreen, similar to barcodes read

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• Underwater communication has been a major technological issue since the start of autonomous (scuba) divers and deep-sea vehicles (DSVs).• wide-area sensor networks have enabled the close monitoring of environmental in case of tsunamis and volcanic ash clouds.

Underwater Sensor Networks is a very recent technology that tries to followthe same steps than terrestrial wireless networks in a very different and challenging network environment. There is an increasing interest in USWN technologies.