Design and Development of a Secondary Receiver Terminal for Xiaoqushan Seafloor Observatory in the East China Sea

This study introduces a Secondary Receiver Terminal for Xiaoqushan Seafloor Observatory (XSOSRT) in the East China Sea, which enables testing users acquire and process in situ data from their own sensors. The framework of XSOSRT is described containing four components achieving data transmission from situ sensors to testing users. Based on C/S architecture, XSOSRT is designed and developed using socket class, component, CrystalReportViewer and other programming technologies, which enables data receiving, processing, storing, displaying, statistics and event warning. This system has been applied to the Xiaoqushan Seafloor Observatory in August, 2013 and satisfied the basic requirements laid for the project. Given this successful trial in data distribution, this proposed design of XSOSRT could be a useful reference for a test platform in seafloor observatories.