A NAVAL taskforce in action off the coast of Somalia is deploying a Wi-Fi-based realtime video and data relay system in military operations against pirates. The backpack-borne Maritime Boarding System (MBS) provides navy teams with a live video and voice feed to their mother ship when they board a suspect vessel to search for arms and other illicit cargo. Cameras and microphones are fixed to backpack straps at shoulder level. In addition, MBS can send data, enabling biometric tasks like fingerprinting and photographing to be performed in real time. Interpreters on the bridge of the mother ship listen to verbal exchanges aboard the suspect ship and advise the boarding party of what is being said.
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