OceanSense
OceanSense aims to build an integrated sensor network system for environment surveillance on the sea. The focus of this work is to acquire and analyze information about environment factors such as temperature, light illuminance, sea depth, etc. Current methods are mostly labour-intensive and the data collection lacks both the density and consistency of samplings. By deploying a wireless sensor network, we are able to achieve continuous surveillance on the sea environment.
Different with traditional land based sensor networks, most of which consist of stationary sensor nodes, the sensor network deployed on the sea consists of Restricted Floating Sensors (RFS), anchored to the sea bottom, floating within a restricted area on the sea surface. The complex impacts brought by the wind blow, tides as well as ocean currency affect our system architecture, algorithm design and sensor node manufacture
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