Subsea Data Systems receives grant support
Published by Sara Simper,
Editorial Assistant
World Pipelines,
Subsea Data Systems, Inc., a partnership between Samara/Data and Ocean Specialists, Inc., is pleased to announce new grant support from Schmidt Marine Technology Partners (SMTP), part of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Network. SMTP provides ‘venture philanthropy’ funding to support the development of new ocean technologies which require sustained support to achieve full potential and availability to the broadest user base. The grant will enable Subsea Data Systems to continue development of the first complete sensor system for SMART Cable repeaters (amplifiers) that will be incorporated into future regional and trans-oceanic telecom cables.
“We’re elated to receive such generous grant support from Schmidt Marine Technology Partners. The timing couldn’t be better as we continue our fast-paced R&D efforts to move beyond a benchtop SMART sensor system prototype to a fully operational system ready for in-situ testing,” said Matt Fouch, President of Subsea Data Systems. “Support from a major philanthropic organisation like Schmidt Marine Technology Partners provides further acknowledgement of the essential need for SMART Cables for monitoring and research applications.”
SMART Cables are an innovative real-time deep ocean monitoring technology that will facilitate fundamental improvements in Tsunami Early Warning (TEW), Earthquake Early Warning (EEW), global climate monitoring and telecommunications resiliency. The innovation is to tightly integrate sensors into the amplifiers (‘repeaters’) used to boost signals in the optical fibres. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components will be utilised for nearly all physical elements of the system. The research-grade package includes a 3-axis accelerometer, absolute pressure gauge, and temperature sensor, integrated with data acquisition circuits with suitable dynamic range and precision, a common communications module, an interface suitable for fibre optic cable spans up to 120 km in length, software and firmware necessary to support the data path, an isolated power source, and precision timing. The SMART repeater design is modular, allowing different sensors, adaptation to different repeater housings, or use as a standalone unit.
The development and deployment of SMART Cables will enhance scientific understanding of Earth’s oceans, seafloor, and subsurface via a fundamentally new approach to long-term subsea sensor network deployments. SMART Cables will provide essential new data to reduce disaster risk and improve global climate understanding, thereby reducing societal and environmental vulnerabilities to these long and short-term threats.
A link to the Schmidt Marine Technology Partners announcement can be found here.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldpipelines.com/business-news/16092022/subsea-data-systems-receives-grant-support/
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