Engineering Innovation in
Digital Defense, Aerospace & Homeland Security
An innovative safety system for improving the capabilities of incognito monitoring of both underwater and surface maritime traffic.
Approach & Solution
Approach
The institutional tasks of the Italian Navy include the monitoring of territorial waters, which is fundamental for ensuring their defense and security. This is a delicate task that requires constant improvement of control capability and monitoring tools able to operate in hidden mode.
For this reason, the Naval Support and Experimentation Center of the Navy, a scientific and technological center of excellence, involved our experts in the development of an innovative platform able to detect objects on the surface and underwater in a hidden way.
Solution
Our solution consists of two parts:
- the "Underwater" component through which the system acquires the acoustic traces of the detected target and transmits them to the "Data Processing" center
- the "Data Processing" component which processes the data collected, returning a list of "Alerts" and "Warnings" that correspond to potentially dangerous events.
Results
Goals achieved and demonstrated in "Validation Campaigns"
Technological Readiness Level TRL7
Project value
Process performance Innovation
Enabling Technologies
AI & Advanced Analytics
Project Team
Engineering Defense Business Unit