TETI Project – A Multiparameter Modular Buoy for a Comprehensive and Cost Effective Sea Water Monitoring

TETI is a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing innovative sensors to monitor different kind of seawater pollution, exploiting the possibility to integrate them completely or in part into a multiservice buoy, to be used in marinas and small ports to provide energy supply to small electrical boats giving at the same time useful information about the health status of the waters. The system is designed to send the desired set of information on shore using an integrated wireless system, interfaced with an intuitive user interface. The article aims to describe the overall modular architecture of the system, a part of the sensors developed for on- board integration, the power supply system and data transmission system.