Brunswick County Flood Sensor Network

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Brunswick County Flood Sensor Network
Images NC Dept Public Health, Google, Renci
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Flood Sensor Data Flow

• Measurements acquired by SunSPOTS from Aquarod,
  HOBO, sonar, radar
• Measurements transmitted by Spots to Spot gateway
  (Zigbee)
• Spot gateway to base station (USB)
• Base station to cellular gateway (802.11, 900Mhz)
• Cellular and Trunked UHF to RENCI SensorBus.

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NC EONS
Environmental ObservationNetwork System for
North Carolina

• 14 Institutions in North Carolina
• 18 x 18 feet (5.5M x 5.5M) platform
• 15 feet (4.5M) above Mean Sea Level
• 4 Kilowatt hours total power per day

Image Don Stanfield, NCSU
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NC EONS Instruments

• Meteorological Station
• Sonic Wind Profiler
• Pair of bottom-mounted ADCPs
• CTD
• Bottom Boundary Layer tripod
• Dissolved gasses, chlorophyll, salinity, pH
• Automated refrigerated sampler
• Florescence probe
• Gas Chromatograph
• Turbidity
• Fish Acoustic Measurement

Image Rick Luettich, UNC-IMS