Heron Island Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station

Sensor network infrastructure was installed at Heron Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef off Gladstone, Australia. The infrastructure consists of a base station mounted on the existing communications tower, a number of network relay poles installed in the lagoon and a number of buoys which carry the actual sensors.

The initial design is to monitor the flow of water through the lagoon which is often 'ponded' due to the high coral rim to the lagoon, this creates complex in and out flows and flushing of the lagoon system.

The deployment in August 2008 consisted of the base station using the Telstra nextG service, six 6m relay poles located in the lagoon and five sensor floats also located in the lagoon. The poles carry one bottom thermistor, the floats currently have surface thermistors only. Additional instrumentation will be added by the end of 2008.

The project looks to deploy sensor networks at seven sites along the Great Barrier Reef to measure a range of physical parameters at a range of scales. The project will install communications, data and platform infrastructure that will support future sensor work looking at biological and chemical parameters.

This project is part of the Wireless Sensor Networks Facility (formerly known as Facility for The Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems (FAIMMS)), part of the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project (GBROOS) (IMOS)

澳大利亚格拉德斯通外海的南大堡礁赫伦岛已部署传感器网络（Sensor Network）基础设施。该基础设施包含安装于现有通信塔上的基站、布设至潟湖内的多根网络中继杆，以及搭载实际传感器的多组浮标。
本项目初始设计目标为监测潟湖水体流动：由于潟湖周边存在高珊瑚礁缘，潟湖常呈“滞水（ponded）”状态，进而形成复杂的入流、出流与潟湖系统水体交换过程。
2008年8月的首次部署方案如下：采用Telstra nextG通信服务的基站、6根设于潟湖内的6米高中继杆，以及5组同样布设于潟湖内的传感器浮标。中继杆搭载1支底部热敏电阻器，浮标目前仅配备表层热敏电阻器。2008年底前将新增配套观测仪器。
本项目计划在大堡礁沿线7处站点部署传感器网络，以多尺度测量一系列物理海洋参数。项目将搭建通信、数据与平台基础设施，为后续开展生物、化学参数相关的传感器观测工作提供支撑。
本项目属于无线传感器网络设施（Wireless Sensor Networks Facility）的组成部分，该设施前称海洋系统自动化智能监测设施（Facility for The Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems，FAIMMS），同时也是大堡礁海洋观测系统项目（Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System，GBROOS，IMOS）的组成部分。