Signal Processing Implementation for Multichannel Sensor Arrays using COTS based Systems

In this modern era companies all over the world have moved towards COTS (Commercial-off-the-shelf) based systems as they are less expensive, use open architecture standards, and provide rapid deployment. This paper not only addresses the requirements for selecting suitable COTS based systems but also provides details of products and services offered by various COTS vendors in the worldwide marketplace. In addition the paper deals with the development of COTS based processing system for sensor arrays such as an underwater acoustic processor for multi-channel data acquisition and signal processing tasks.