Underwater Monitoring Platform

Description of research

Underwater communication has recently been a focused research area and find many potential applications such as marine life data collection, underwater navigation, seismic activity and pollution monitoring to name a few. One of the research challenges in practical realization of underwater sensor networks is an efficient power management that encompasses unique network topology, state of the art network protocols and finally an energy efficient transducer driver design.

This part of work is concerned with the specification and design of energy efficient acoustic driver electronics, integrated in the power management of the sensor node. New topologies must be found that incorporate power amplification stage along with power conversion, that can handle limited battery voltages. IC integration will enable the use of a large number of power switches and complex control in a small form factor.

Advisor(s)

Prof.dr.ir. Bram Nauta

Dr. ir. Ronan van der Zee

Duration

1 June 2011 – 1 June 2015

Project

SeaSTAR (ASSYS)

Funding institution

STW

Strategic Research Orientation
Wireless and Sensor Systems

Links to relevant web pages:

http://icd.ewi.utwente.nl/

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Home CTIT symposium 2013 About CTIT News NIRICT Research Meet the PhDs Working at CTIT Internal Information Conferences Open Calls (updated May 3, 2013) Library and Videos Knowledge Transfer Links Sitemap Search	Underwater Monitoring Platform Description of research Underwater communication has recently been a focused research area and find many potential applications such as marine life data collection, underwater navigation, seismic activity and pollution monitoring to name a few. One of the research challenges in practical realization of underwater sensor networks is an efficient power management that encompasses unique network topology, state of the art network protocols and finally an energy efficient transducer driver design. This part of work is concerned with the specification and design of energy efficient acoustic driver electronics, integrated in the power management of the sensor node. New topologies must be found that incorporate power amplification stage along with power conversion, that can handle limited battery voltages. IC integration will enable the use of a large number of power switches and complex control in a small form factor. Advisor(s) Prof.dr.ir. Bram Nauta Dr. ir. Ronan van der Zee Duration 1 June 2011 – 1 June 2015 Project SeaSTAR (ASSYS) Funding institution STW Strategic Research Orientation Wireless and Sensor Systems Links to relevant web pages: http://icd.ewi.utwente.nl/ Pictures