Satellite on WII5 — Waves In Ice Buoys

Communications

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Iridium

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Status: placeholder.

Server

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The internet-side server collects data from Iridium / satellite delivery, decodes the short-burst-data payloads, stores them, and feeds the viewers and downstream consumers.

Real content will cover:

Iridium short-burst-data mailbox configuration
Server-side decoder — deployment, environment variables, docker-compose
Storage layout and retention policy
How buoys are added and how users are managed
Dashboard entry points

Status: placeholder. Server source to be released.