Multipurpose marine Buoy

Solving the meteorological and oceanographic monitoring problems in frame of the actual ldquoJadran Projectrdquo the multipurpose marine buoy was developed to meat specific requirements in Adriatic Sea. The aluminum plastic coated buoy was designed to ensure stabile behavior at any waves high and wind speed that can occur in Adriatic aquatory. The 3 m high upper platform is provided for installation of the versatile atmospheric sensors, GPS and communication antennas. The main task of Power system department was to solve buoy powering. Specially designed solar panels are used to ensure enough electric power for continuous operation of buoy electronic equipment. There are three types of communication links provided on the buoy to meat any user requirement for data transfer between buoy and costal station. Specially designed user friendly data collection and visualization software is developed for the data presentation on the web.