In December 2021, Subsea Data Systems (SDS), a new partnership between Samara/Data and Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI), announced that it had received funding from the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop SMART (Sensor Monitoring and Reliable Telecommunications) Cable technologies. SMART is an initiative built on the concept that adding sensor components to commercial submarine fiber optic cables used to carry Internet traffic can simultaneously collect seismic and oceanographic data without interference to the cables’ primary function.
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