Wi-Fi on the High Seas

Technology is once again at its best as it helps provide new hope for early detection of natural disasters such as Tsunamis.A new research led by Tommaso Melodia, the director of the Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Buffalo in New York, is aimed at making sensors and other underwater electronics more accessible to land-based devices, such as laptops and mobile phones.

The news release from ABC News also said, that the new technology will also help in the monitoring of  pollution, it is also expected to be beneficial to law enforcement officials when it comes to drug trafficking, by creating a network of devices that can detect such activity. 

So here's how the implementation process works; being that conventional radio waves are not highly capable of transmitting underwater, acoustic waves are being used (same type as used in the submarine navigation system)  in a 40-pound sensors which is dropped into the water while attached to a relay buoy, which has an effective radius of about 1 mile and stays on the surface of the water. The Wi-Fi radio signal then transmits to the buoy, which converts it into acoustic waves for the underwater sensors.  According to the researchers it is also bidirectional. "Basically, you talk to them and they talk to you."

In case your wondering how all this integrates with the "salt, sea and sad", everything is encased in a half inch thick sphere and vacuum, so no water comes through. 

 "THESE GIANT YELLOW OBJECTS WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE UNDERWATER MORE WIFI CAPABLE"

I think that it will make a massive difference if Natural Disasters in particular can be predicted, which can have many life saving benefits. My hope though is that they are set up worldwide especially in Tsunami prone waters. 

In addition another added benefit will be to make the ocean more WiFi friendly for sailors and the like, in that you can access the internet via your electronic devices from which ever part of the ocean you may be. This technology can also be instrumental, I believe is detecting vessels that may be distressed or gone adrift; once again SAVING LIVES!!

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Source Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/underwater-internet-make-ocean-wi-fi-friendly/story?id=20587056