Abstract

BACKGROUND [0003] When conducting activities such as underwater acoustic monitoring, large structural monitoring, or geo physical surveys, sensors are typically disposed at locations where such monitoring is desired, while a monitoring station is located remotely at some distance away from the particu lar area that is being monitored or surveyed by the sensors. For example, many kilometers of lines of vibration sensors (eg, geophones or accelerometers) are used in geophysical exploration, many kilometers of lines of acoustic sensors are towed by ships and submarines, and other sensor modalities (eg, chemical) may be envisioned in other applications. Currently, these sensors utilize electrically conductive chan nels for power and/or data. Complex power hungry elec tronics may be required at each sensor to synchronize and/or format sensor data for digital data communications. Analog data …

Date

2021

Authors

YY Dorfman, SE Ritter, JL Habif

Inventors

Yevgeniy Yakov Dorfman, Scott Evan Ritter, Jonathan L Habif

Patent_office

US

Application_number

17396432