Underwater sensors for monitoring sea life

Tech Explorist
Collecting power from the sea, through turning submerged turbines or bouncing wave-energy converters, is a rising outskirt in the sustainable power source. Specialists have been checking how these systems will influence fish and different critters that swim by. However, with most accessible innovation, researchers can get just infrequent looks of what’s happening underneath.
Thus, scientists at the University of Washington have developed a sensor that acts as mechanical eye under the ocean’s surface that could watch nearby animals under the ocean. Dubbed as Adaptable Monitoring Package, or AMP, the sensor could live near renewable-energy sites.
Brian Polagye, a UW associate professor of mechanical engineering said, “The big-picture goal of the AMP when it started was to try to collect the environmental data necessary to tell what the risks of marine energy were. But we ended up with a system that can do so much more. It’s more of an oceanographic Universal Serial Bus. This is a backbone, and you can plug whatever sensors you want into it.”