The USBL Buoy packages an acoustic transceiver, orientation sensing, dual GNSS, onboard computer, battery and wireless access point for tracking and data relay. SiNAPS provides server-side positioning and sensor-data processing with browser clients and customizable forwarding to external applications. Surface communications can use local WiFi, land-station radio and optional LTE. This is an evidenced sensor/vehicle-to-shore gateway and positioning layer; the selected acoustic family, firmware and software data contract determine compatibility.
SiNAPS supports USBL, LBL and hybrid multi-target positioning and sensor input.
Browser clients on the local network; mission databases and customizable data forwarding.
WiFi, land-station radio and optional LTE surface backhaul are distinct from the underwater acoustic link.
Current SiNAPS page states modem firmware 1.9 or newer.
Surface-gateway
Sensor-integration
Underwater-positioning
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Retrieving data from underwater sensors and relaying it to shore.
Tracking AUV, ROV or diver assets through a surface positioning node.
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Currently marketed integrated gateway/software; separate industrial river case illustrates acoustic-to-buoy-to-server sensor architecture as an attributed vendor case study.
Commercial availability
Current product pages invite configuration/demo enquiries; no current public delivery lead time or standard external API service contract was established.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
Reviewed connections
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
Original sources 3 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Company river case study describes CTD/ADCP riverbed stations communicating acoustically to paired surface buoys, then LTE to an unnamed mining client server.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
