The TRIAXYS™ wave and motion sensors are high precision instruments that have set a new standard for wave and motion measurement. The innovative design incorporates new technologies that make them easy to use, rugged, as well as the most reliable and accurate sensors available for measuring oceanic platform motion, waves, and directional wave spectra. This sensor has been integrated numerous times into existing navigation and data buoys as upgrades to allow users to measure wave and motion.
TRIAXYS Sensors Features:
The Next Revolution in Wave Measurement
The TRIAXYS™ Directional Wave Sensor is comprised of three accelerometers and three rate sensors that ultimately measure the total displacement along the three orthogonal axes of the floating platform, x, y, z or HNE. In addition, this sensor is equipped with a gimbaled fluxgate compass to measure true magnetic direction.
The TRIAXYS™ Heave Sensor uses the same technology as the Directional Sensor, but without the compass. This provides the same six degrees of freedom analysis but without a magnetic direction reference.
The TRIAXYS™ Motion Sensor also contains three accelerometers and three angular rate sensors and outputs the raw motion of the platform.
These sensors use the AXYS WatchMan500™ controller for data processing within the sensor, and all sensors have the option of onboard data logging of both the raw collected data and the final processed data.
Applications of the TRIAXYS™ Directional and Heave Wave Sensors include weather forecasting, oceanographic research, environmental monitoring, marine and coastal engineering, marine traffic safety and climate studies. The TRIAXYS™ Motion Sensor is used for wave energy system control, vessel response information, naval architectural design, platform loading and design, as well as structural and stress analyses.
The TRIAXYS™ Directional wave sensor was successfully integrated into a University of Connecticut’s Central Island’s existing buoy platform and now allows them to receive near real time directional wave data. To see hourly wave data from this buoy please visit the following link:
http://www.mysound.uconn.edu/clis_stn.html
Product Documentation
TRIAXYS Sensors (PDF, 377 KB)
Offshore Renewable Energy Assessment & Monitoring Systems (PDF, 464Kb)
Case Study - Italian Mariners in the Mediterranean Sea stay informed through a network of 17 TRIAXYS-WatchKeeper buoys