Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

Hard hardware questions answered by UC San Diego computer scientists

		IMAGE: Jacobs School undergraduates, including Brian Faunce (above), are hard at work on analog portions of the underwater communications project, including the transmitter power amplifier and receiver low noise amplifier. Click here for more information.

UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop in Rome, Italy, on May 25, computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering presented a paper highlighting the energy conservation benefits of using reconfigurable hardware rather than competing hardware platforms for their experimental underwater sensor nets.