A Dutch phd student has developed a system for underwater positioning to be able to do. Normal gps does not work under water, nor the required system to display the time indicate. The system of the Dutchman works with a mesh-network nodes.
The mesh makes contact, via acoustic signals, because that is the best way of communication under water. Of from the back: has not yet the entire system is tested, as is read in his thesis. However, he has done experiments with parts of the system.
Of from the back: had to for his system to a private mac protocol, because existing mac protocols for under water work with the transfer of location and time information, but only with other data.
The system for accurate determination of position and time under water will particularly find application in specialized organizations, says from the back: against Tweakers. “I think that oil and gas companies, the first will be that the really go apply. For the monitoring of onderwaterpijpleidingen they have already shown interest. They would leakages can be detected on the basis of the sound that they produce. By the oil industry it will be possible to be used for the discovery of oil reserves in the ocean floor.”
The mesh-networks, a worldwide operating system, such as gps, that is. However, there are various projects to the system in practice. “The environments are difficult, testing is difficult and it will make adoption slow”, think Of from the back:.
He is not yet planning a company. “There rest have no patents on the work, and as far as I know are the methods and algorithms are therefore free to use. The software and hardwareontwerpen that are made, are protected and may in the future have something done is going to be, in the form of a company, but specific plans are not there yet. At this moment, I see it only as an academic project.”
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