Communicating Under Water

Chinmay Pendharkar | Subnero

Why?

Communications..

  • Measure
  • Monitor
  • Fix
Image from MIT

Cables

https://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1839489
https://i.imgur.com/JSiiyRp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/zNK6lwS.jpg

Wireless

https://www.flickr.com/photos/elzey/6443586511/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kordite/16982362655

But..

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/2013/508708/fig9/

Options ?

Lasers!

http://www.saphotonics.com/high-bandwidth-optical-communications/underwater/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYXfXg9XqP0

Options ?

Sound!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8058098@N07/2718571627/

Has it been done before?

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

Challenges

Bandwidth

Noise

Delay

Speed..

Wave Medium Speed (m/s) Time for 100m (s)
Radio Air 3x108 0.0000009220
Sound Air 343 0.2915451895
Sound Water 1500 0.0666666667

Solutions

Custom Software

Custom Networking

Unet Stack

Custom Hardware

Modems

Use Cases

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tamberg/19371920922
https://www.cinema5d.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Trident_Underwater_Drone_1.jpg
http://binscorner.com/pages/u/underwater-welding.html

Thank You!