Smart sensor interface for sea bottom observatories

In order to be able to use all the marine sensors currently available in the
market, a new module has to be built to implement the smart sensor standard IEEE-
1451[1] as well as other services used in marine measurements. The smart module is
aimed to be used in ALL observatory configurations: autonomous, cabled and buoybased
observatories. This module can also be used for low power data acquisition
and control applications in new instrument design such as Ocean Bottom Seismometers
(OBS) [3] or any other instrument where data logging, clock synchronization,
and plug and play capabilities are important. Therefore, the power consumption of
the smart module has to be minimized for batteries based observatories and autonomous
instruments.