UAN

Underwater Acoustic Network

Coordinatore	CINTAL - CENTRO INVESTIGACAO TECNOLOGICA DO ALGARVE    more  Organization address address: QUINTA DA PENHA city: FARO postcode: 8005-139 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Paulo Cognome: Felisberto Email: send email Telefono: 351290000000 Fax: 351290000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Portugal [PT]
Totale costo	4˙263˙233 €
EC contributo	2˙950˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-10-01   -   2011-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	CINTAL - CENTRO INVESTIGACAO TECNOLOGICA DO ALGARVE  Organization address address: QUINTA DA PENHA city: FARO postcode: 8005-139 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Paulo Cognome: Felisberto Email: send email Telefono: 351290000000 Fax: 351290000000	PT (FARO)	coordinator	0.00
2	KONGSBERG MARITIME AS  Organization address address: STRANDPROMENADEN 50 city: HORTEN postcode: 3183 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Thor Cognome: Husoy Email: send email Telefono: +47 33 02 3872 Fax: 4733047619	NO (HORTEN)	participant	0.00
3	SELEX SISTEMI INTEGRATI SPA  Organization address address: VIA TIBURTINA city: ROMA postcode: 131 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Riccardo Cognome: Massimelli Email: send email Telefono: +39 010 6546 25 Fax: +39 010 6546 31	IT (ROMA)	participant	0.00
4	STIFTELSEN SINTEF  Organization address address: Strindveien city: TRONDHEIM postcode: 7465 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Tor Arne Cognome: Reinen Email: send email Telefono: +47 73592030 Fax: +47 73592730	NO (TRONDHEIM)	participant	0.00
5	TOTALFORSVARETS FORSKNINGSINSTITUT  Organization address address: Gullfossgatan city: STOCKHOLM postcode: 164 90 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Ilkka Cognome: Karasalo Email: send email Telefono: 46855503627 Fax: 46855503686	SE (STOCKHOLM)	participant	0.00
6	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA  Organization address address: Via Balbi city: GENOVA postcode: 16126 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Raffaella Cognome: Ravera Email: send email Telefono: +39 010 3532810 Fax: +39 010 353 294	IT (GENOVA)	participant	0.00
7	UNIVERSITA DI PISA  Organization address address: Lungarno Pacinotti city: PISA postcode: 56126 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Immacolata Cognome: Viva Email: send email Telefono: 390502000000	IT (PISA)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The UAN project aims at conceiving, developing and testing at sea an innovative and operational concept for integrating in a unique system submerged, surface and aerial sensors with the objective of protecting critical infrastructures, such as off-shore platforms and energy plants. The security of such economically vital infrastructures requires an integrated approach involving underwater and land/air sensors and actuators for surveillance, monitoring and deterrence. In particular UAN focuses on a security oriented underwater wireless network infrastructure, realized by hydroacoustic communication. The UAN concept is to gather environmental information during the acoustic transmission and use it to predict the acoustic propagation conditions and the optimal obtainable performance at any given time. This information is used in the communication system for precise tuning. This tuning will take place at two different levels: i) by improving the basic point-to-point connection, by introducing physical and geometric constraints in the channel equalization and optimization process of the communication settings and ii) at the macro network configuration level by adapting node geometric configuration to the acoustic propagation conditions predicted from the environmental observations. This can be done in depth or in range by moving nodes placed on AUVs either to increase the point-to-point communication capacity or by serving as relay nodes to more distant, and at that time, inaccessible fixed nodes. This is a rather new approach that requires a better understanding of the acoustic propagation physics as well as a capacity to include that knowledge into technologically advanced communications modules and algorithms for underwater communications. The UAN project builds on a multidisciplinary consortium of technologically advanced industries, field experienced university labs and governmental agencies, thus grouping the required knowledge and experience.