Spotter Buoy - Open Ocean Monitoring Buoy
From Sofar - Sofar Marine Sensing Devices
Products Details
Smart Mooring
Easily integrate a Temperature and/or a Pressure sensor with Spotter as a hub for power and connectivity. No configurations needed: just connect and access your Smart Mooring data right away from our API and dashboard.
With Smart Mooring, anyone from a citizen scientist to a natural resource manager can equip Spotter with any combination of sensors in the water column for immediate access to that data.
What’s Unique About Spotter + Smart Mooring?
Powered by the sun
Spotter is sustainable and fully solar-powered, meaning it can run indefinitely — and you never have to worry about losing data.
Easy to deploy
Simply unbox and drop it in the water to start collecting ocean data. About the size of a basketball, Spotter can be shipped worldwide and deployed without any special equipment.
Built to last
Rugged & durable, Spotter is built to last in rough conditions. Encased in ice or surviving a storm surge, Spotter can handle it all.
Affordable & accessible
Along with being simple to deploy and use, Spotter is cost effective to ensure that ocean innovation & research is accessible to everyone.
Our Devices in Action
Indigenous deployment teams install Spotters in the Mackenzie Estuary to gather critical wave and sea surface temperature data.
USGS & NOAA use Spotter + Smart Moorings to validate their Total Water Level & Coastal Change Forecast, helping them monitor incoming storms more effectively.
Eco Wave Power uses a Sofar Spotter to track wind and wave data near the only grid-connected wave energy array in the world.
Aqualink deploys Spotter + Smart Moorings worldwide, empowering citizen scientists to monitor ocean temperatures near endangered coral reefs.
Professional surfer Grant Washburn uses Spotter data to track swells at Northern Califorina's Mavericks, one of the most revered big-wave breaks in the world.
In Chilean Patagonia, Spotters collect ocean data that supports safe and sustainable salmon farming.
All-in-One Ocean Surface Weather Station
Spotter + Smart Mooring lets you leverage a vast amount of ocean data in a form that you can instantly put to use. Whether you are in academics, industry, or even marine recreation, we make it simple for you to unlock new discoveries about Planet Ocean.
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Weather Conditions
- Wind Speed: 12 KTS
- Wave Height: 3.8 M
- Wave Direction: 12 KTS
- Drift Heading: 187 °
Last Update: 03/23/2019 17:51:49 UTC
- Wind Direction: NMW
- Wave Period: 16.2 S
- Drift Speed: 0.6 M/S
- Wave directional spread: 28 °
Location: 14.433083* ) 926.7, *+<.
Access raw sensor data via an onboard SD card. From surface wave spectrum (swell, sea, period, direction) and wind speed/direction, to surface drift/direction data and sea surface temperature, we capture it all.
Get real-time ocean data from anywhere in the world, even at low-bandwidth. Each Spotter is connected to our data platform via Iridium satellite.
From monitoring and viewing data to managing configurations, do it all in one place. Stay on top of ocean events and trends with real-time alerts and historical data access for any sensor type.
The Spotter Sensor API provides access to weather and surface data collected by Spotter via an HTTPS JSON API. (Data forwarding available).
Real-Time Spotter Data in Action
From your live dashboard, you can explore all the data at your fingertips, as well as changing Spotter settings, configuring alerts, and more. There’s even a mobile app.
Measurements & Dimensions
- Weight: 5.4 KG 12LBS
- Warranty: 6 MONTH
- Shipping: 5.4 KG 12LBS
- Connectivity:
- Iridium SBD
- Cellular
Enhance Your Spotter with Smart Mooring
Enhance Your Spotter with Smart Mooring
An integrated, modular, real-time monitoring platform for any ocean sensor type
A modular sensor system that enables flexibility a...
Add any sensor, and plug it anywhere you want
Smart Mooring is powered by Bristlemouth, a connectivity protocol and connector standard designed to support rapid and flexible integration of components.
Bottom line: add any sensor, and plug it anywhere you want.
Smart Mooring in the Wild
Coastal Monitoring, Coastal Resilience, & Insurance
Water level measurement
- Infragravity Waves
- Non-tidal Residuals
- Tides
- Water Levels
Use Cases
- Tidal predictions
- Run dredging assessments
- Monitor storm surges
- Detect and predict harbor seiching
Conservation & Research
Conservation & Research
Multiple sensor configuration
- Water column stratification
- Sub-surface water properties
Water Quality
- Water level measurement
- Operations monitoring
- New site selection
Available Configurations
In-line temperature sensors record temperature and stratification.
Includes: Non-SST Spotter, Smart Mooring (base), two temperature sensors, and mooring components (excluding anchor weight).
Water Level Gauge
Near seafloor side-mounted pressure sensor measuring water level variations at 2Hz using the RBR Coda3 depth sensor.
Includes: Non-SST Spotter, Smart Mooring (base), RBR Coda3 pressure sensor, and mooring components (excluding anchor weight).
Configure Your Own
Customize depth and payload:
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Decide which sensors you like*
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Mooring depth up to 50 meters
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Flexible sensor placement
Success Story
Improving coral reef health with real-time temperature monitoring
Add any sensor, and plug it anywhere you want
Smart Mooring is powered by Sofar's OnePlug system, a connectivity protocol and connector standard designed to support rapid and flexible integration of components.
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