DataTurbine deployment at Lake Erken, Sweden

Lake Erken (59o51’ N, 18o36’) is situated on the east coast of Sweden, north-west of Norrtälje. It is one of Uppland’s largest lakes with an area of 24.2 km2. Lake Erken serves as a natural laboratory where various important limnological processes/changes can be studied in situ including building up several data banks on all relevant atmospheric, aquatic, soil parameters that force the functioning and metabolism of the lake. Lake Erken has been instrumented with a broad range of sensors to get deeper understanding into lake metabolism. However, management of real-time sensor data streams presents major processing, communication and administrative challenges. To that end, we helped Lake Erken research staff to adapt open source DataTurbine to perform sensor data acquisition, transport, and dissemination in a scalable and reliable fashion. This allowed them not only to use and adapt DataTurbine for the local site, but also enabled them to join the global GLEON community thereby giving them access to international data.