Underwater system passes first test

Texcel has designed the monitoring and control systems within each node of the Canadian part of the North-East Pacific Time-series Undersea Networked Experiment.

Texcel Technology has successfully carried out first-phase testing of its undersea observatory power and control system.

Texce has teamed up with Alcatel-Lucent and L3 Communications Maripro to develop a shore feed, high-power, high-bandwidth, cabled ocean observatory system for the Canadian part of the North-East Pacific Time-series Undersea Networked Experiment (Neptune).

The science nodes have been designed to supply up to 9kW of usable power and switch this to individual scientific instruments some distance from the nodes, in active areas where telecom cables would not be routed.

Texcel has designed the monitoring and control systems within each node, which can be placed on the ocean bed down to a depth of over 3km, and the management software to control these nodes remotely.

When deployed Neptune Canada will allow real-time monitoring of critical science applications such as neutrino telescopes and tsunami detection systems.

The system was based upon Texcel's existing Vision and VSys remote monitoring and management solution.

Medium-depth remote monitoring and control is a growth sector, both for scientific and natural resource exploration.

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