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Communications

How WII5 buoys talk — Iridium for over-the-horizon, local channels for in-the-field configuration.

WII5 buoys use two communication channels — long-range satellite for operational telemetry, and short-range local for field configuration and read-out without breaking the enclosure seal.

  • Iridium — short-burst-data uplink for telemetry.
  • Local — BLE, serial, and Wi-Fi for in-field access.

1 - Iridium

Over-the-horizon satellite uplink using Iridium short-burst-data.

Iridium short-burst-data is the primary operational channel: small payloads, global coverage, low power per message. Each transmission carries a calculated wave-statistics packet rather than raw samples.

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2 - Local

In-field local channels — BLE, serial, and Wi-Fi for configuration and read-out.

Local channels used in-field for configuration, diagnostics, and read-out without breaking the enclosure seal: BLE for app-driven access, serial for direct console, and Wi-Fi for higher-bandwidth bulk download.

Status: placeholder.