Underwater acoustic sensor networks

A method for configuring an underwater acoustic sensors network comprises:

• providing at least one cluster below a surface of a body of water, each cluster comprises a plurality of sensor nodes and a master node connected to the plurality of sensor nodes;
• providing an underwater computing system, the computing system coupled to the master node of the at least one cluster;
• receiving, by the underwater computing system, from the master node, a primary data;
• processing, by the underwater computing system, using one or more data reduction algorithms, the primary data to obtain a resultant data of a reduced size;
• and
• transmitting, by the underwater computing system, the resultant data to one or more gateways.

An underwater acoustic sensors network comprising:

• a plurality of sensor nodes configured to be deployed underwater, the plurality of the sensor nodes arranged into at least one cluster, each of the at least one cluster comprises a master node;
• a low power underwater computing system coupled to the master node, the computing system comprises a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, wherein the memory stores a set of instructions executable by the processor, the set of instructions when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive a primary data from the master node;
• process the primary data using one or more data reduction algorithms to obtain a resultant data, the resultant data is of a reduced size;
• and
• transmit the resultant data to a gateway.