There’s a place where the internet, Wi-Fi, and GPS do not exist. Communication is haphazard: Sometimes messages arrive different times at the same place, the same time at different places, or not at all. It’s not North Korea, or a time portal to the 1980s. It’s anywhere, today, under the ocean.

in https://www.wired.com/2016/11/oceans-robots-may-soon-enjoy-high-speed-internet

The first general assembly of Bringing together Research and Industry for the Development of Glider Enviromental Services – BRIDGES, took place in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto – FEUP - on days 6, 7 and 8 of September of 2016. This meeting aimed to evaluate the project status and share results and solutions between the different partners involved in the project.

Sea trials where the NECSAVE system was validated in the water to control ASVs (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and AUVs (Porto University).

Each node in the system is running a NECSAVE stack comprising planning and execution, allowing tasks to be distributed automatically throughout a team of heterogeneous vehicles.