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Self-Powered Wireless Ocean Monitoring Systems

Authors:
Sea-Hee Hwangbo
Jun-Ho Jeon
Sung-Joon Park

Keywords: Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN); Energy Harvesting; Acoustic Modem.

Abstract:
Recently, underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) has been emerged as one of the important research topics from the need for the conservation and exploitation of the ocean. Since underwater sensor nodes suffer from limited power source, in this paper, we have planned to design and implement self-powered ocean monitoring systems which generate renewable marine energy from a device at sea surface and share the energy with underwater nodes. As a first step of this objective, we have developed an acoustic modem for wireless communication and made experiments in a pond to verify the performance of the modem. In addition, we have supplied the power to the modem by harvesting solar energy with solar panels. Efficient energy management, movement of underwater nodes and energy transfer will be investigated as succeeding work.

Pages: 334 to 337

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: August 19, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-207-3

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012