Demo: Hands-on with JANUS: understanding, implementing and using the first digital underwater communications standard

Demo: Hands-on with JANUS: understanding, implementing and using the first digital underwater communications standard

For over 70 years, the only underwater (UW) communications standard has been the analogue UW telephone, known as ‘Gertrude’. With the rapid rise in the availability and use of autonomous UW assets, there has been a pressing need for a wireless digital UW communications standard that can be used to convey any type of data and support machine-to-machine exchanges. JANUS answers this need and is the result of over 10 years of effort, led by NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), funded by NATO ACT and involving contributions from many international research centres, modem designers, producers and users. The standard known as JANUS has now been approved by NATO and is to be implemented across the naval assets of all 29 NATO nations. But JANUS is not restricted to NATO, indeed not even restricted to military use, but open and available to both military and civilian use worldwide. This demo is combined with the tutorial “JANUS: The first digital underwater communications standard”. It will provide more hands-on information to better understand how to implement and use the first digital underwater communications standard, including how JANUS overcomes the barrier of interoperability of current underwater acoustic modems.

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Tutorial hands-on and demos are divided in three groups which will rotate together every hour: