SeaView Systems and LimnoTech have teamed up to utilize SeaView’s SVS-603 wave sensor to enhance wave monitoring in a network of Great Lake buoys supporting real-time marine data collection. LimnoTech owns, services, and deploys a network of seven nearshore buoys in Lake Michigan and Lake Erie in cooperation with the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), NOAA National Weather Service, American Electric Power and local communities including South Haven (MI), Holland (MI), Toledo (OH) and Cleveland (OH).
“This buoy network is extremely popular with both recreational and commercial users in the Great Lakes and generates millions of data requests each year for up-to-date, accurate observations of marine conditions,” said LimnoTech’s Ed Verhamme. “These observations support the supply of clean drinking water for nearly three million residents in Ohio by closely monitoring lake conditions for water treatment plant managers.”
The SVS-603 enables a new range of wave sensing applications through its compact footprint, low power consumption and high accuracy MEMS-based design. The sensor can be mounted on a variety of platforms that include a range of buoy hull designs/size and autonomous vehicles (AVs).
“After careful comparison with a bottom mounted AWAC sensor, SeaView’s SVS-603 has been shown to be accurate, reliable and economical and has motivated us to upgrade the wave sensors in all of our buoys for the 2018 season,” said Verhamme. “Our clients and customers have high expectations for accuracy and reliability and the SVS-603 enables us to provide accurate, up-to-date measurements of wave conditions.”
“SeaView Systems continues to push forward the capabilities of wave sensing using the latest electronic sensor capabilities as well as our own algorithmic advances” said Dr. Timothy Crandle of SeaView. “We are excited by the broad range of applications that can be supported with the SVS-603 with its state-of-the-art MEMS sensors, low power consumption, and highly configurable outputs and models.”
Find out more about the SVS-603 here.
