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  • SEMAT — The Next Generation of Inexpensive Marine Environmental Monitoring and Measurement Systems

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    Trevathan, Jarrod
    Johnstone, Ron
    Chiffings, Tony
    Atkinson, Ian
    Bergmann, Neil
    Read, Wayne
    Theiss, Susan
    Myers, Trina
    Stevens, Tom
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Trevathan, Jarrod
    Year published
    2012
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    There is an increasing need for environmental measurement systems to further science and thereby lead to improved policies for sustainable management. Marine environments are particularly hostile and extremely difficult for deploying sensitive measurement systems. As a consequence the need for data is greatest in marine environments, particularly in the developing economies/regions. Expense is typically the most significant limiting factor in the number of measurement systems that can be deployed, although technical complexity and the consequent high level of technical skill required for deployment and servicing runs a ...
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    There is an increasing need for environmental measurement systems to further science and thereby lead to improved policies for sustainable management. Marine environments are particularly hostile and extremely difficult for deploying sensitive measurement systems. As a consequence the need for data is greatest in marine environments, particularly in the developing economies/regions. Expense is typically the most significant limiting factor in the number of measurement systems that can be deployed, although technical complexity and the consequent high level of technical skill required for deployment and servicing runs a close second. This paper describes the Smart Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Technologies (SEMAT) project and the present development of the SEMAT technology. SEMAT is a "smart" wireless sensor network that uses a commodity-based approach for selecting technologies most appropriate to the scientifically driven marine research and monitoring domain/field. This approach allows for significantly cheaper environmental observation systems that cover a larger geographical area and can therefore collect more representative data. We describe SEMAT's goals, which include: 1) The ability to adapt and evolve; 2) Underwater wireless communications; 3) Short-range wireless power transmission; 4) Plug and play components; 5) Minimal deployment expertise; 6) Near real-time analysis tools; and 7) Intelligent sensors. This paper illustrates how the capacity of the system has been improved over three iterations towards realising these goals. The result is an inexpensive and flexible system that is ideal for short-term deployments in shallow coastal and other aquatic environments.
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    Journal Title
    Sensors
    Volume
    12
    Issue
    7
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.3390/s120709711
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 MDPI (http://www.mdpi.org). The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Analytical chemistry
    Environmental management
    Ecology
    Distributed computing and systems software
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/48448
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