Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-285-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-285-2017
Research article
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09 Aug 2017
Research article |  | 09 Aug 2017

Automated observatory in Antarctica: real-time data transfer on constrained networks in practice

Stephan Bracke, Alexandre Gonsette, Jean Rasson, Antoine Poncelet, and Olivier Hendrickx

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In 2013 the scientists from the geophysical centre in Dourbes started a project to install a fully automated observatory in Antarctica. The ultimate aim is to have real-time data coming in to Dourbes every second. After evaluation of different data transfer protocols, we chose to use Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and receive the 1 s data with a negligible latency cost and no loss of data.