Gary Bagot, Sales Director at Elwave, will be presenting at Undersea Defence Technology (UDT) in London on April 14, discussing the transition of advanced sensing technologies into operational maritime capabilities.
The maritime domain is facing a new generation of threats, including ultra-quiet submarines, kamikaze Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), and covert platforms designed to evade traditional acoustic detection. As acoustics approach their physical limits, multi-physics sensing is becoming essential for underwater operations.
Elwave has developed ESENSE, an ultra-high-performance wideband underwater electrometer operating across UEP and ELFE modalities, enabling long-range detection and classification of electrical signatures beyond acoustic limitations.
This focus extends beyond sensing performance to the transition of such technologies into operational capabilities. Relevant mission areas include Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), port and naval base protection, and the security of Critical Underwater Infrastructure (CUI).
Integration pathways include Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USVs) and other autonomous platforms, buoys and sonobuoys, seabed and subsea stations, as well as electrobuoy and thin-line arrays. The use of intruder barriers composed of tightly coupled ESENSE nodes enables coherent tracking of electrical signatures associated with underwater targets.
Elwave’s technology has been validated through sea trials, including NATO REPMUS 2025, demonstrating detection ranges from hundreds of meters to kilometer scale.
