Flexible Arbitrary Signal Generation and Acquisition System for Compact Underwater Measurement Systems and Data Fusion

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Abstract
For the implementation of compact underwater measurement systems, much time is spent integrating various sensor and processing components and their control and synchronization. Especially for multi-sensor applications, proprietary solutions do not scale easily and are not designed for use in a distributed measurement system. We propose a well-established protocol Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for integration of sensors with a broker as a central data hub as a key system component. We implemented a flexible, distributed multi-sensor measurement system, by using open-source libraries. The multi-sensor system was successfully tested and operated with five underwater sensor devices and user data rates up to 2.73 MB/s.
Funding Information
  • Ministry of Economic Affairs