Buoy-based Sensing to Monitor Environmental Changes

SENSOR NETWORKS CONQUER SEA

British Telecom has developed a Remote Sensor Network System based in buoys to survey coastal erosion that could help to predict floods and tsunamis.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is backing the project, which is intended to improve the way the Environment Agency (EA) and other bodies monitor environmental changes.

The Self-Organising Collegiate Sensor (Secoas) Network Technology combines low-level artificial intelligence, electronic sensors and wireless radio. Networked buoys decide when and how to transmit the data that they compile.