Offshore Surveillance of Wave Buoys
Abstract: To gain further knowledge about the motion of the wave buoys involved in the Islandsberg project for wave power, a surveillance system has been designed. The base for the system consists of a lattice tower to be placed on one of two islets southwest of Lysekil: Klammerskären. The distance from the islets to the wave energy research park and the wave buoys is between 150 and 300 meters. The tower will be 12 meters high and in it a network camera will be mounted, together with a small wind turbine, two solar panels, a battery bank and equipment for communication with land. A signal cable presently dispatched in the sea near Klammerskären will be used to connect the islets to a measuring station at the nearby island of Gullholmen. All the necessary permits for the project have been acquired, all of the equipment to be used has been delivered, and the full procedures for the construction and installation of the tower and the surveillance system have been laid out. The tower however, has not yet been mounted and the system has not been tested as a whole. When completed, the tower may be used as a station for further measurements within the Islandsberg project.
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