Canada's AURA-NET is a mesh network on ski-doos spanning 4,500 km of the Northwest Passage, keeping remote Rangers connected without cell service. A device called Echo drills through sea ice, drops a hydrophone to listen for enemy submarines, and tracks climate change impacts in the region.
Our mesh network, AURA-NET, is being deployed with the Canadian military on Ski-Doos across 4,500 kilometres of the Northwest Passage.
What's some of that technology and what's some of the feedback they've given that's helped you guys?
In short, what it is is a distributed, attritable mesh network. So it allows the Rangers to communicate when there's no backhaul or GSM or any other communications infrastructure. So a commander in Ottawa or Kanata can look in near real time and see where his Rangers are and whether there's ice or there's literally a polar bear that's ambling around. Yeah. And you'll see later something we built called Echo. Echo is a tool that burrows through the ice. It drops a hydrophone in the water. It listens to what's happening. It's also a repeater and distributes it across the mesh network. So we're listening for Adversarial subs, but it's also about capturing data about what climate change is doing to these regions.
