Surface
Test Tank Instrumentation:
WFS’s products enhance test-tank facilities by delivering real-time wireless data transmission to ships and submersibles under test. WFS’s wireless communications technology has the unique capability of enabling reliable, low and high bandwidth transmission directly through the water/air boundary for reception by a second modem operating on the surface. Easily integrated with facility control systems, this key capability allows for seamless communication of key reference values, such as depth and direction among others, delivering optimum functionality to vessels under test. A further benefit of WFS technology, particularly when compared to conventional acoustic systems, is that it will operate in the challenging environment of the shallow water concrete test tank, while remaining immune to acoustic noise. Our low and high bandwidth systems enable two way communications between control desk and vehicles under test, with our high bandwidth system, Seatooth, optimized to deliver the real time high speed data download necessary to hydrodynamic and nautical research.
Under/Through ground Data links:
In an environment where wireless internet, GSM, GPRS and conventional through-air radio are powerless, WFS’s low frequency electromagnetic technology is well suited to underground data links. Capable of transmitting data through-ground as well as through-water without disruption, a WFS radio modem will pass through concrete, rock, mud, earth and into the air to provide secure communications.This removes the need for impractical cabled solutions and enables such applications as emergency communications in underground public transport networks, and extending Network Extended Capability into underground sensors. Furthermore, it also allows staff operating underground greater freedom, providing real-time alerts and contact with the surface at all times.
Through bunker/cave video communications - Terratooth:
WFS’s Terratooth radio modem delivers high data rate communications through-ground. Current operational requirements have identified a need for real time video communications for Special Operations responsible for clearing bunkers and similar locations. In an environment where wireless internet, GSM, GPRS and conventional through-air radio are ineffectual, WFS’s electromagnetic technology is ideal, reliably transmitting through concrete, rock, mud, earth and into the air to provide secure communications. This key capability removes the need to deploy trailing wires and cabling (operationally impractical as bunker doors may need to be closed) and will enable numerous autonomous surveillance solutions, providing control comms in support of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) patrolling tunnels, basements and demolished buildings, and communication of sensor, picture and video data.