Hydrophone Array Sensing as a Means for Subaqueous Monitoring.

Over the last years CoSys Lab developed state of the art sonar sensors, sensor arrays, acoustic monitoring techniques and bioinspired sensing approaches, published them in high impact journals and successfully initiated industry collaborations. So far all the sensor systems were designed for airborne (ultra)sound, however, these systems can also be adapted to underwater acoustics and therefore broaden the field for applications both within research as in industrial collaborations. Therefore, we want to develop an underwater acoustics/sonar measuring device and need additional equipment (e.g. hydrophones, underwater speakers and data acquisition cards) that can provide us with ground truth benchmarking data in order to quantify the efficacy of our initial prototypes. We want to focus mainly on hydrophone arrays for bioacoustics research as we see here most potential for now, but in future our knowledge acquired in this project will help us to design 3D underwater sonar sensors.

Keywords:BIOMONITORING

Disciplines:Embedded systems, Sensors, biosensors and smart sensors not elsewhere classified