SiPLABoratory

During this project a full set of components for the implementation of an underwater acoustic network were developed and tested both in laboratory and at sea. These components are abundantly described in the papers, internal reports and other documents published during the project. Open publications can be seen here or downloaded from the official project web page.

Figure below shows the acoustic network main hardware components.




























While the following figure shows the network conceptual topology (see details in project publications).

A number of deliverables have been produced for the European Commission under the FP7 grant agreement and are available for the EC and consortium only. See full list here.

Two main sea trials were carrried out during this project: the UAN10 in September 2010, off the Island of Pianosa (Italy) and another UAN11 in the Trondheim Fjord in Norway in May 2011.

UAN'11 - Trondheim Fjord, May 2011. Calibrating Folaga AUV's prior to deployment.
Testing modems prior to deployment.
Underwater picture of the Folaga AUV with the Kongsberg Maritime modem installed.
AUV modem transmitted picture through the acoustic channel using the high data rate channel.