11th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications

Research Article

Design and development of the sea surface drifting buoy

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.21-6-2018.2276643,
        author={Yonghua Chen and Qingkui LIU and Jingbo JIANG and Zuotao NI and Xiaolong LI},
        title={Design and development of the sea surface drifting buoy},
        proceedings={11th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA},
        year={2018},
        month={9},
        keywords={drifting buoy; beidou communication system; data acquisition; real-time transmission; power management},
        doi={10.4108/eai.21-6-2018.2276643}
    }
    
  • Yonghua Chen
    Qingkui LIU
    Jingbo JIANG
    Zuotao NI
    Xiaolong LI
    Year: 2018
    Design and development of the sea surface drifting buoy
    MOBIMEDIA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.21-6-2018.2276643
Yonghua Chen1,*, Qingkui LIU1, Jingbo JIANG1, Zuotao NI1, Xiaolong LI1
  • 1: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
*Contact email: yonghuachen@aliyun.com

Abstract

A sea surface drifting buoy system based on Beidou communication system is designed and developed by Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It employs a low power consumption chip, STM32F103RCT6, as the core of the control system,which can collect and process the data of the ocean environment automatically and monitor the status of the buoy system. Then the marine data are transferred to the lab on shore in real time by Beidou satellite. With the power management function, this system will reduce system power consumption greatly and extend the working time of the buoy. By placing and using the buoy at sea, we verify the feasibility and reliability of this system, which has provided the reliability support of acquiring some real-time elements and track currents of the ocean current in some certain sea area in long time real-time access to the sea currents.