
The newsletter of the Meloa Project is born
25/01/2019 - The first annual Meloa project #newsletter is out! During 2018, @ec_meloa completed...
Interoperability Technologies and Best Practices in Environment Monitoring Workshop
29/10/2018 - Members of the SARTI research group have presented their work on the standardization of...
29/10/2018 - Members of the SARTI research group (remote acquisition and information processing systems) have participated...
OBSEA is a cabled seafloor observatory located 4 km off the Vilanova i la Geltru coast in a fishing protected area. It is connected to the coast by an energy and communications mixed cable.
The main advantages of having a cabled observatory are that it provides an uninterrupted power supply to the scientific instruments and offers a high bandwidth communication link. This way, real time data is available and problems encountered in battery powered systems are avoided. The proposed solution is the implementation of an optical Ethernet network that transmits data continuously to marine sensors connected to the observatory. With OBSEA, we can perform a real time observation of multiple parameters in the marine medium.