Author Topic: Breakthrough in Underwater WiFi (not nano/quantum tech)  (Read 567 times)

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Offline ladytctTopic starter

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Breakthrough in Underwater WiFi (not nano/quantum tech)
« on: September 05, 2020, 07:51:31 am »
Sorry for the clickbait title! I registered an account (been a fan of Dave's busted videos) here just to share this excellent news to fellow divers:
Underwater WiFi aka Aqua-Fi!!  https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/researchers-lasers-bring-internet-underwater

We can finally take underwater selfies and post them on Instagram during deco and surface interval, subject to your ability to hover at depth of 5m +/- 10 mm, head pointing 3 degrees true north +/- 0.1 degree, less the laser misaligns and fires quantum goodness into your dive buddy's eyes.

Seriously though, how this "invention" ended up on IEEE Spectrum is beyond me.
 

Offline MicroBiggerThanMM

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Re: Breakthrough in Underwater WiFi (not nano/quantum tech)
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2020, 09:26:49 am »
Actually, it's not unfeasible to be aligned to the receiver. From controls, it all has to do with the servo loop bandwidth. Using a camera chip and a laser, your sensor simply needs to sample the beam position within a millisecond and adjust piezoelectric or direct drive voice coil actuators to realign the beam to the center of the frame. Makes sense why they're (and who is) excited about this. The Navy would love to have high bandwidth wireless communication underwater while they're trying to scuba weld nuclear underwater basket mills. Additionally, this would find a lot of use in the depressurization chambers so the divers can stream Netflix as they try to avoid the bends.
 


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