MODELLING A BUOY FOR SEA POLLUTION MONITORING USING FIBER OPTICS SENSORS

G. Griffo, L. Piper, A. Lay-Ekuakille, D. Pellicanò, D. Scolozzi, E. De Franchis

Abstract

This paper describes a prototype of a new buoy equipment for monitoring sea pollution that utilizes fluorescence chromatography of known biomass to determine which of them are present and in what capacity.The hardware system of the buoy is mainly composed of optical sensors for monitoring, circuitry on the measurement chain, the remote control system on GSM channel, and rechargeable battery with photovoltaic system.The software used in order to obtain a high resolution spectral analysis processing data is based on the Decimated Padé Approximant and Decimated Linear Predictor. Design is the results of simulations with COMSOL software.

Keywords

water pollutants, fiber optics sensors, oceans spectrometer, RTU-GSM, energy harvesting, DPA, DLP

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TC19 - Environmental Measurements

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