NIWA 2017

Fourteen-buoy deployment with NIWA (New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) starting 1 April 2017 (project id niwa2017).

This was the Intel Edison all-in-one Linux generation: the buoy ran everything — sensor capture, GPS, Iridium, scheduling — on a single Edison module running Linux. No AVR companion CPU. The Edison was chosen for its small form factor and reasonable power profile at the time; it later became the limiting factor (Intel discontinued the Edison line) and prompted the move back to AVR for WII5.

The dashboard, capture pipeline, and watchdog management for this build are documented under Software → Other → WII3_Dashboard.

Details, ship, location, and retrievals to follow.