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automation or underwater drones, so communication and navigation sensing are key, as well as trying to do it more seamlessly and tak- ing less power [delivered] in smaller packages with more capability. Hy- brid systems, edge computing, ma- chine learning or AI, call it whatever you want.”

He said a good example is the recent launch of Origin from Sonardyne.

It’s an Acoustic Doppler Current

Pro? lers (ADCP) that has integrated hybrid capability. “It has communi- cations built in and edge computing,

Image courtesy Sonardyne so you can have this running on the seabed, collecting a huge amount of ABOVE: data,” said Partridge. “The customer A Bottom Pressure can put their own Edge application on the instrument subsea, Recorder (BPR) process all of that data, decimate it down to something that’s being prepared for really small with only the critical information required. And deployment in the then that can be communicated through the acoustic commu- Indian Ocean.

nication link back to a surface ship or a USB. That’s a great example of hybrid capability and edge computing.” www.marinetechnologynews.com 23

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