Underwater surveillance technology

Marine camera, integrated software offer improved underwater surveillance, security

Published 3 June 2010

Underwater surveillance is one of the more difficult tasks for security personnel; darkness, humidity, murkiness, low temperature all make it difficult for camera equipment to capture clear images of elements in water; a new marine camera with integrated software offers a solution.

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The innovative Lyyn Visual Enhancement Technology and integrated underwater cameras allow harbor and marine security to monitor underwater activity at harbor entrances, near oil rigs, and secure marine locations. It may be argued that had the U.S. Navy possessed such technology at Pearl Harbor, it would have been relatively easy to identify the infiltrating Japanese submarines sooner and sound a general alarm in time to scramble US defenses.

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Robert Aston, the president and founder of Santa Cruz, California-based Ocean Presence Technologies (OPT), incorporated the Lyyn technology into his company’s family of underwater cameras to create enhanced monitoring devices for tropical sea life.
An avid conservationist, Aston has been on a mission to create the MantaCam — a real-time video transmission of the movements of the manta ray, a large, bat-like fish often found in tropical waters. Aston coupled his knowledge of computer hardware and software design with his interest in underwater photography and scuba diving, to create the MantaCam, and a family of continuous underwater video monitoring systems that can be controlled over the Internet.

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“Environmentalists now have the ideal equipment needed to watch the evolution of the world’s oceans and seaways and educate the general public and government officials on the critical need to protect these precious resources,” Aston concluded.

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