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Underwater wireless product reaches launch
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28/09/2006
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Underwater wireless modem technology described in Eureka’s November 2005 feature article (“Radio waves transmit information underwater”) has just reached the market in the form of a commercial product.
The S1510 Underwater Radio Modem, launched at yesterday’s Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase, is designed to work at 10m depth and has a working range of 50m.
Ron Marquis, Wireless Fibre Systems business development manager, told Eureka: “We have been talking to the Environment Agency, about monitoring reporting tasks where they cannot get permission to run cables – and where an acoustic link would require a repeater buoy that might be struck by river or canal traffic.”
The devices seen by Eureka are ruggedly engineered, available for evaluation, and according to Marquis,
“They should run for a couple of years on two ‘D’ cells,” he says. “Units are currently on trial on a test site on the River Tees.”
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Tom Shelley
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