The first part of the paper reviews existing
technologies for remote marine monitoring with emphasis on latest achievements
in the area, including the main common properties and differences between data
buoys, moorings, landers, drifters and floats. Novel design for modular smart
event triggered marine monitoring platform is proposed in second part of the
paper. Mechanical and electrical design of the proposed platform is provided,
including early experimental results regarding power consumption. Event trigger
mechanism, used for saving battery power consumption, is explained and minimum
amount of platform power consumption is determined. Some ideas for future work
are also provided.