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radar transponder to increase the boat’s radar signature, and a navigation light designed to be visible at 3 nautical miles. The boat can also carry an optional GPS tracker that is independent of all the other systems and which transmits the USV’s position in almost any eventuality over the Iridium network. Sensors and payloads Poole highlights AutoNaut’s ability to integrate a wide range of sensors into the platforms through OSSI, which currently accepts data protocols from serial interfaces including RS232, RS422, RS485 and USB to IP Ethernet and even Bluetooth short-range radio. The company offers three standard sensor configurations: for oceanography, surveillance and passive acoustic monitoring (PAM). In unmoored MetOcean buoy configuration, AutoNaut measures wind speed and direction, air temperature, pressure and humidity, and monitors water chemistry, measuring conductivity, temperature, pH value for acidity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and more. The company is also integrating a wave sensor that measures height, period and direction. As a surveillance asset it offers covert, persistent deployment of radar and Communications ESM (CESM) sensors, passive acoustic detection and monitoring of surface and underwater threats, and video and stills cameras. In the dedicated PAM role, it can The terminals are quite large and power-hungry, and Inmarsat is quite expensive with operators paying by the megabyte