TUWEYE is a PATENT PENDING PROJECT of a data and image acquisition/transmission device developed to operate underwater, differing in terms of technological layout, performance and multiplicity of areas of use compared to underwater shooting devices currently on the market. The project takes inspiration from the BluBite "System One" project and device in which, however, the communication channel in the wired line did not have the appropriate performance requirements required by current technological standards in data acquisition and transmission.
The device that is submerged in water called TUWEYE Capture Unit can be made in small dimensions, navigates with a variable structure depending on how the external geometry is configured and performs the capture of images and data through the camera and multiple sensors. Through a thin communication cable of variable length, even longer than 100 meters, it is electrically and mechanically transported and connected to a device called TUWEYE Control Unit, so that the analysis of the before mentioned data and images can take place in real time.
The TUWEYE Capture Unit submerged in water does not need power batteries and features two bi-directional digital data communication channels. What makes the use of the TUWEYE system attractive is the extreme rationalization of the electric cable and the innovative transport of information. The wiring is relegated to an electric line with a diameter equal to or less than 2mm, with high tensile strenght, through which data and high resolution digital images pass, such as to allow handling and a size on the reel similar to that of sport fishing equipment at sea. At the design level, different layouts of the TWUEYE system are possible:
Furthermore, both layouts can be adapted in order to assume a dedicated configuration:
A further advantage of the TUWEYE project is the high level of field experience gained in water activities by the BluBite project, with respect to which evident and substantial technical improvements subject to Intellectual Property protection are made, in order to project TWUEYE towards the obvious needs of scientific research based on high integration digital type equipment.
TuwEYE Patent Application has reached all the patent requirement for all the Claims on the first Search Report and Written Opinion dispatched by the European Patent Office examiner (IT stage).
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