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Ocean Data Systems Ltd has recently delivered and installed a Wave and Wind monitoring system for Mobil Oil on the island of Rota, situated in the Northern Marianas Islands north of Guam.

Mobil Oil will use the data mainly in support of their tanker discharge operations for the island, but also to build up a database of wind and wave data to assist with engineering design requirements.

The system hardware is comprised of a Triaxys Wave Buoy with Spread Spectrum telemetry and Inmarsatd+ for position monitoring and remote configuration of the buoy, an RM Young ultrasonic Anemometer and also a VHF pager system which can provide remote warnings of preset wind and/or wave conditions to Mobil staff as they supervise discharge operations from various parts of the facility.

                     Enview Wave Display

EDSM and ENVIEW software from Bimaris Ltd, was used to integrate, display and archive data from both the Wave buoy and the Anemometer and also to provide the pager functionality. Enview was configured to provide display pages for Buoy location, Wave Statistics, Spectral data, Wind Speed and Direction, Wavebuoy Voltage/ Solar Current and lastly Sea Surface temperature, with all data products stored in .dbf files for later distribution, review and analysis.

The pager driver allows warning states to be assigned to any of the digital parameters displayed and a user defined text message to be sent to the hand held pager.