WSense Full connectivity for the Internet of Underwater Things

# Record card
185
Thematic areas
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Aerospace and Earth Science
Aerospace and Earth Science / Oceanography
Energy and environmental sustainability / Marine technologies
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Internet of Things
Aerospace and Earth Science / Satellite technologies
Description

WSense provides customizable and modular real-time, bi-directional, in-situ monitoring tools capable of sending real-time alarms. It makes possible to monitor the entire water column, on areas that can scale from a few tens of square meters to hundreds or thousands of square meters depending on the number of nodes deployed as needed. The monitoring system is implemented using submarine wireless communication nodes (W-Nodes) integrated with probes to monitor various parameters. The W-Nodes are able to analyze the measured values, process them and transmit them in real time through the submarine wireless networks on which WSense has international patents. The signal containing the data can be forwarded by other W-Nodes which act as routers until it reaches a W-Gateway, a surface element which interfaces submarine networks with traditional networks and the Internet. The data is then transmitted to a Cloud software platform to be memorized, correlated, analyzed and displayed via a web interface, even in 3D for some scenarios designed to work on a PC, tablet, phone.

Business fields
Industry
Type of innovation
Product innovation
Process innovation
Description of innovative features / Competitive advantages

WSense brings to the market submarine wireless mesh technology to create adaptive "multi-hop" networks that bring reliability and performance not possible until now. Wireless monitoring systems are also more reliable and less expensive than wired systems and reduce Operations & Maintenance costs, favoring the development of the Blue Economy. Wsense builds low-cost systems able to cover large areas in the coastal strip (up to 300m deep) to be deployed without cables to monitor the water column. On top of these patented solutions that derive from a decade of research and development of intellectual property, WSense has added, to realize its IoUT solutions, new acoustic modem technologies with low energy consumption and low cost; a submarine sensor node to which new sensors from different manufacturers can be easily integrated; a power management module capable to significantly increase the energy autonomy of the monitoring system; a multi-protocol stack for secure data transmission. A final characterizing aspect of WSense solutions is multi-vendor interoperability.

Reference market
Total innovation
Creation of new markets
Development stage
Industrialization
TRL
9
Advantages
New product/process/service/technology
Patentable technology
Yes
Patented technology
Yes
Country/ies

Italy; Europe; UK; Norway; Chile; Canada; US

Publication of technology
Published
Technology validation/demonstration
External validation
Market positioning
Italian
European
International
Partner required
Enteprise
Public research center/university
Private research center
Cooperation in national /european / international project

Information
For more information and/or to be put in contact with the Research Team, please contact the Project Manager:

Barbara Angelini - Project Manager
CNR - Unità Valorizzazione della Ricerca
Phone number 06.49932415
E-mail barbara.angelini@cnr.it