Orpheus Island Deployments of the Facility for the Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems - FAIMMS

Sensor network infrastructure was installed at Orpheus Island in the central Great Barrier Reef just north of Townsville, Australia. The infrastructure consists of a base station located on an existing mast at the Orpheus Island Research Station run by James Cook University, two sensor-floats or buoys - one located in Pioneer Bay off the Research Station and one in Little Pioneer Bay and three Relay / Sensor Poles - two located on the reef flat on the north-west point of Orpheus Island and one located on the southern point of near-by Pelorus Island.The experimental design is to measure the intrusion of oceanic water onto the ocean (western) side of the island and through the channel that separates Orpheus and Pelorus Islands and secondly to monitor water temperatures and water parameters in the bays around the research station. The deployment in August 2009 consists of a base station at the Research Station that use the nextG network to get the data back to AIMS and using the Campbell Scientific RF411 radios to create the on water wireless network. The base station talks directly with the two sensor floats, one in Pioneer Bay and the other in Little Pioneer Bay. Each float has a surface mounted thermistor and a bottom mounted SeaBird SBE39 that gives temperature and pressure (depth). This gives depth and surface and bottom temperature for the two locations.The three Relay-Poles were installed in August 2009 with no instruments, these will be added in October / November 2009. The design has the two poles on the Orpheus Island reef flat having sensor strings that go across the reef flat, down the reef slope into the deeper waters with deep temperature and salinity sensors and shallower temperature sensors to give a profile of temperature and measurements of temperature and salinity for the deeper water as it flows onto the reef and through the channel.The pole on Pelorus Island will act as a base station relaying the data from the other poles back to the mainland via a nextG modem. One of the poles will also have a Vaisala WXT520 weather station mounted on it.
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.
The FAIMMS Project is part of the GBROOS or Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project which in turn is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System or IMOS.

澳大利亚汤斯维尔以北的大堡礁中部奥费斯岛（Orpheus Island）部署了传感器网络基础设施。该基础设施包含：一座部署于詹姆斯·库克大学（James Cook University）运营的奥费斯岛研究站（Orpheus Island Research Station）现有桅杆上的基站；两座传感器浮标（buoys）——一个位于研究站附近的先锋湾（Pioneer Bay），另一个位于小先锋湾（Little Pioneer Bay）；以及三座中继/传感器杆（Relay / Sensor Poles）：两座位于奥费斯岛西北端的礁坪之上，第三座位于邻近的佩洛鲁斯岛（Pelorus Island）南端。本实验的设计目标为：一是监测海水如何侵入岛屿西侧海域以及横穿分隔奥费斯岛与佩洛鲁斯岛的水道；二是持续监测研究站周边海湾内的海水温度与各项水质参数。
2009年8月的部署方案包含：研究站的基站通过nextG网络将数据回传至澳大利亚海洋科学研究所（Australian Institute of Marine Science, AIMS），并借助坎贝尔科学（Campbell Scientific）RF411无线电设备搭建水上无线网络。该基站可直接与两座传感器浮标通信，分别位于先锋湾与小先锋湾。每座浮标均配备1台水面安装的热敏电阻器（thermistor），以及1台海底安装的SeaBird SBE39传感器，可采集温度与压力（水深）数据，从而获取这两个测点的水深、表层与底层海水温度。
三座中继/传感器杆于2009年8月完成部署，但暂未搭载观测仪器，相关仪器将于2009年10月至11月间加装。奥费斯岛礁坪上的两座中继杆将搭载传感器串：传感器串将横跨礁坪，沿礁坡下行至深水区，配备深水温度与盐度传感器，以及浅层温度传感器，可获取温度剖面数据，并监测流经礁坪及水道的深水区海水的温度与盐度变化。佩洛鲁斯岛上的中继杆将作为基站，通过nextG调制解调器将其他中继杆采集的数据回传至大陆。其中一座中继杆还将搭载维萨拉（Vaisala）WXT520气象站。
本项目计划在大堡礁沿线的7个站点部署传感器网络，以多尺度采集各类物理海洋参数。项目将搭建通信、数据与平台基础设施，为后续开展生物及化学参数相关的传感器观测工作提供支撑。
FAIMMS项目是大堡礁海洋观测系统（Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System, GBROOS）的组成部分，而后者又隶属于澳大利亚综合海洋观测系统（Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, IMOS）。