gauteh/sfy

🌊 A lightweight wave buoy for near-shore deployments.

The small friendly buoy

sfy-buoy - the firmware for the wave buoy. sfy-drifter - a minimal, modem & gps, only drifter buoy. hardware and build-tutorial - hardware and assembly instructions. sfy-data - the server scraping or receiving data from deployed buoys. sfy-processing - python libraries and tools for reading and post-processing received data. sfy-dashboard - web interface for displaying latest position and overview of buoys.

The buoys deployed in the surf on the coast of Norway:

For more information and attribution, please refer to:

• Hope, Gaute, et al., 2024, (pre-print), SFY -- A lightweight, high-frequency and phase-resolving wave-buoy for coastal waters
• Seldal, Torunn Irene, M. Sc. thesis, 2023, SFY: A free-drifting wave buoy for measuring surf waves

Press

• met.no - Morgendagens fiskere utdanner seg til en framtid med store endringer | UiT
• met.no - Surfer rundt i verden for å måle hvordan bølger bryter

Acknowledgements

This work is inspired by the OpenMetBuoy-v2021a, see Rabault et. al. (2022).