UMass Scientists Develop Low Cost Buoys for Monitoring Near-Shore Environments
Scientists at the UMass Boston Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks (CESN) have developed five environmental monitoring buoys for deployment in near-shore areas, including small urban estuaries.
The collected data will provide the scientists with information on dangerous bacterial levels in the water and unusual environmental conditions, as well as predictions of rising seas right to their mobile phones.
The design goals focused on a low cost monitoring solution that was easy to deploy and offered the ability to easily modify the sensor suite so the buoys can serve as a test bed for innovative sensor technologies.
Attached to each buoy is Onset's HOBO U30/GSM Remote Monitoring System. The remote monitoring system features built-in cellular communications providing a reliable, inexpensive monitoring solution even in urban environments where line of sight is often limited and multipath interference make point-to-point radio telemetry problematic.
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