LSTS - Sunrise

The Ocean’s Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet

marina — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:40:07 +0000

The Ocean’s Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet

03 Nov 2016

Projects

There’s a place where the internet, Wi-Fi, and GPS do not exist. Communication is haphazard: Sometimes messages arrive different times at the same place, the same time at different places, or not at all. It’s not North Korea, or a time portal to the 1980s. It’s anywhere, today, under the ocean.

For scientists talking to submarines, robots, and other instruments, data travels at dial-up speeds of single bytes per minute—far slower than the megabits per second we use in the office or at home. Oceanographic researchers have gotten around the problem by connecting devices to tethers of fiber optic cable or copper wires, which provide enough bandwidth to stream images of the Titanic or weird creatures that live around underwater volcanic hot springs. But the heavy cables can also get tangled, dragging down the vehicles they connect.

But a group of scientists from Europe and the United States are trying to cut the cable on underwater data. They foresee a wireless communications network that would allow sleek, torpedo-shaped autonomous underwater vehicles to scout the murky depths, collect information, talk to each other, and then return to a central point to dump their data at regular internet speeds.

full article: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/oceans-robots-may-soon-enjoy-high-speed-internet

Sunrise EXPOSURES

marina — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 23:00:00 +0000

Sunrise EXPOSURES

03 Jun 2016

Projects

From transport, energy and fishing to high growth marine sectors of seabed mining, aquaculture and offshore energy, emerging information ecosystems will transform utilisation and sustainability of ocean resources.

In EXPOSURES, we demonstrate how on-demand autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can drive intelligent data analytics to rapidly assess environmental processes and impacts in marine waterways. The result will be create new marine information ecosystem that exploits underwater IoT infrastructures such as those offered by the European SUNRISE facility.

Low cost AUVs, information sharing and fusion the key to rapid insight

Oceans are challenging environments to construct and operate industrial assets. Foundations of offshore structures are vulnerable to localised scour whilst busy navigation channels are subject to ongoing sediment transport. Natural hazards are amplified by extreme weather events and the impact of climate change. Maintaining knowledge about the complex interplay between human activity and micro/macro ecological processes is essential for optimisation of periodic maintenance, response to crisis or extreme weather events, assessment of environment impact and license compliance.

Technology advances within the marine information ecosystem will significantly reduce the time from survey instruction to marine insight. Low-cost drones (autonomous underwater vehicles) and advanced data analytics will seamlessly connect surveyors, marine analysts and decision makers. Drones are now small enough to be launched by one person from the shore and cost less that €100K allowing pre-configuration for marine applications such as scour and sediment transport analysis. Surveyors may no longer need to operate manned sea going vessels and marine surveying may become a land based activity operated by personnel deployed on-demand. Combine the drones with Internet connectivity, geospatial data fusion, and linked data descriptions accessible on the web, and marine analysts will have the information they need for assessing situations rapidly. In addition, ongoing curation of marine information made accessible to teams of analysts through open and closed data policies will increase geo-spatial knowledge and drive improvements in environmental predictions.

Full article at: http://www.it-innovation.soton.ac.uk/projects/exposures

Acoustic signals : a solution to communicate underwater

marina — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:00:00 +0000

Acoustic signals : a solution to communicate underwater

24 Sep 2014

News

Another story on project Sunrise, this time in Portuguese.
Visit ciencia20.up.pt to see the full article.

SUNRISE: using underwater robots for a better understanding of the underwater world

marina — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:53:02 +0000

SUNRISE: using underwater robots for a better understanding of the underwater world

17 Sep 2014

Projects

It is where we all came from and it is vital to our future, but the earth’s oceans, seas and waterways remain a mystery to us – a final frontier. The Sunrise project is at the forefront of a revolution in communications, creating an underwater ‘internet of things’, that will mobilise robots to work in groups, interacting together and passing back information to us on life underwater.

The internet is omnipresent and has become a part of how we live, but now this connectivity is being extended from where we all take it for granted to where it has never been before – underwater.

Thanks to the SUNRISE project, supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme , underwater robots will be able to work autonomously, having received instructions. For the first time they will be able to communicate to each other and send data back to computers through the Internet, regardless of swiftly changing circumstances and challenges to data transmission.

‘The gaps in our knowledge of the underwater world are extensive. We know so little despite the fact that marine ecosystems are central to the health of our planet and vital to our economies,’ project leader Dr Chiara Petrioli says. Identifying threats to oil and gas pipelines, monitoring the environment, protecting archeological sites and finding out more about the geology of our planet – the ways teams of aquatic robots could help us learn more is endless, ‘This list is as extensive as your imagination,’ says Dr Petrioli.

as published in CORDIS - Community Research and Development Information Service

Please follow the link to read the complete article: http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/148257_en.html

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