University of Buffalo doctoral candidates work on a underwater Internet test in Lake Erie.
(Credit: Douglas Levere/University of Buffalo)
Wi-Fi can now be found in Africa’s grasslands, around the glaciers of the North Pole, and in airplanes flying high above the Earth’s surface, but underwater is one place the Internet still can’t go… until now.
Researchers at the University of Buffalo in New York are developing a “deep-sea computing network” that can beam data from submerged sensors in oceans, seas, and lakes to users’ wireless devices in real time.
The goal of creating underwater Internet is to help people get a better gauge of what’s going on in the oceans’ depths. For example, underwater Wi-Fi could help scientists detect tsunamis and send warnings to coastal residents, collect data on water pollution, and monitor offshore oil and natural gas rigs.
“A submerged wireless network will give us an unprecedented ability to collect and analyze data from our oceans in real… [Read more]
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