Surface Water Wave Detector for Floating Devices with Capacitive Sensor

Poh Wei Lui, Boon Chin Yeo, Way Soong Lim

Abstract


Water wave monitoring is essential in collecting marine parameters for oceanography studies and early warning systems on security and safety, such as drowning detection, weather detection, and gas leakage from underwater pipeline detection, because these activities create different water wave patterns that can be further analyzed. The current wave detection methods, such as underwater pressure and resistive sensors, have lower durability as they require direct contact with the water. Monocular camera wave detection can detect the line where water waves propagate. However, a static platform is required to perform monitoring operations. This research aims to develop a continuous capacitive sensor system that a buoy can implement for contactless water surface wave detection and to develop a water wave direction detection algorithm by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) calculation. Capacitive sensors arranged in a circular shape and a compass module are implemented inside the prototype buoy. Each capacitive sensor detects the real-time wave height change by changing the capacitance value. The capacitance values from all the capacitive sensors and the North of the compass sensor are sent to the embedded server for further computations. Processes carried out in the embedded server are initial calibration, centroid calculation, PCA calculations for water wave detection, and data visualization on the webpage. The prototype buoy with a capacitive sensor system and compass sensor developed can detect the four positions tested in the experiment with a mean square error of 38.42° and a mean absolute error of 5.85°.

Keywords


Surface water wave detector; capacitive sensor system; principal component analysis; water wave direction detection

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