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Demo: Enabling Battery-Free Wireless Underwater Imaging

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This demo presents a system for real-time wireless imaging of underwater environments using a fully-submerged battery-free camera. The camera powers up from harvested acoustic energy, captures images using an ultra-low-power image sensor, and communicates wirelessly using piezo-acoustic backscatter. A demo video of the battery-free camera can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyVZ1ll6_qY

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WUWNet '22: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems
November 2022
190 pages
ISBN:9781450399524
DOI:10.1145/3567600
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  1. acoustics
  2. battery-free imaging
  3. piezo-acoustic backscatter
  4. underwater camera
  5. wireless communication

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