Uses

Anywhere on Earth

Iridium Certus covers the planet pole to pole, so a WII6 buoy reports from anywhere a ship, hovercraft or helicopter can place one. It needs no base station or shore infrastructure, only a view of the sky. Earlier WII buoys have worked in East Antarctica, the Ross and Amundsen Seas, off Tasmania and on a sea-ice road in Canada, with teams from New Zealand, Japan, Korea and Australia; see the deployment history.

Floating or frozen in

The same instrument works in two places. On the surface of sea ice the buoy measures how waves penetrate and move the ice, and floating at the ice edge it measures the open-water spectrum. The electronics are the same either way; the hull is the choice.

Built into what you already have

The WII6 electronics are a board set, a motion sensor and antennas, built to your specification. The electronics are designed to fit the hulls that carried WII5 and can be integrated into a hull or platform you already have. If you have a buoy that should measure waves, talk to us about fitting the board set, sensor and antennas to it.

From a vessel

On a ship, the vessel’s own response to the waves has to be separated from the waves themselves. Talk to us if you want to explore an installation.