SiS Sensoren Instrumente Systeme GmbH
ARB 6000 Argos Radio Beacon
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The ARB remotely monitors the surfacing of underwater moorings, deep-sea landers, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) or other marine platforms operational under water.
In case this happens inadvertently the device is an alert instrument similar to the standard SMM (Subsurface Mooring Monitoring Beacon) and you may use the SMM Service of CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites for monitoring the status and the surface position of your "underwater" platform. In contrast to the SMM, the ARB is more flexible, smaller, and cheaper in price than a SMM 6000. Because of the three batteries power supply the transmission time is medium term and not long term as with the SMM 6000 powered by 10 D-type Lithium cells. However, the transmission time is not shortened accordingly to the scale of the power supply reduction, because of the low power PTT.
Typical applications are research work in a limited area of a few hundred miles radius and of some weeks duration. On the one hand you are so far away from your instruments, that you would not have any knowledge of the alert situation by line of sight communication (VHF / UHF radio or optical) and on the other hand you would not have any chance to pick up the instrument at the planned time because of the drift of the instruments in the meantime. With the location data from the ARB and the service of CLS you have the control of both aspects. With additional equipment of the Marine Recovery Beacon series of products, one has the means to recover one's instruments at any time under any environmental circumstances.
Spezifikationen (vorläufig)
Verankerungstiefe | 6000 m |
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Druckschalter Schwelle | 30 m Standard; andere Werte auf Anfrage |
Abmessungen (l x d) | 530 mm (Gehäuse) + 210 mm (Antenne) x 60 mm |
Masse ohne Batterien | 5,2 kg |
Verdrängung | 1,6 dm3 |
Versorgung | 3 D Zellen - NiMH, Alkali-Mangan, Lithium, Pulsstrom 500 mA |
Verankerungsdauer | 2 Jahre mit O-Ringen, bis zu 10 Jahren mit Kantseals (ohne Berücksichtigung der Selbstentladung der verwendeten Batterien) |
Sendedauer | 4 bis 12 Wochen (bei 3 mA durchschnittlicher Stromaufnahme) |
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