Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Battery-free wireless imaging of underwater environments

  • Sayed Saad Afzal,
  • Waleed Akbar,
  • Osvy Rodriguez,
  • Mario Doumet,
  • Unsoo Ha,
  • Reza Ghaffarivardavagh,
  • Fadel Adib

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33223-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The authors present an approach to underwater imaging, which does not require tethering or batteries. The low-power camera uses power from harvested acoustic energy and communicates colour images wirelessly via acoustic backscatter.