INTRODUCTION OF INDONESIA TSUNAMI BUOY

Athur Yordan H, Arnold Danari, Adam Budi Nugroho

Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Tsunami Aceh natural disaster in 24 december 2004 is the international disaster. This natural disaster has killed
many people and damanged infrastructur in Aceh. Since that, Goverment of indonesia tries to figure out how to
response in order not to repeated again in the future. BPPT as an agency who responsible for technology in
Indonesia has been designing and creating an Indonesia Tsunami Bouy.
Indonesia Tsunami Bouy Model basically has three main component : Tsunami Buoy, Mooring System and
Ocean Bottom Unit (OBU).
There are 3 component in Tsunami Buoy, there are iridium for communication data, splar energy for the power
and electronic componant.
Indonesia mooring system is a surface mooring and use single mooring system where the system is easier to
deploy and recovery for the bouy. The mooring system typically have three basic components: an anchor, some
type of chain or line which the instrumentation can be attached, and flotation devices that keep the line and
instrumentation from falling to the seabed. Shackles and links are typically used to connect mooring
components and to secure instruments in line. The desain calculation of this mooring use “moordesign”
programme from woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) on MATLAB programme.
Ocean Bottom Unit (OBU) is apart from the mooring system and is located next to the sinker. This OBU has
many ocean sensor to detect tsunami wave and send the data to the surface bouy. The ideal distance of the OBU
and the surface bouy is about 1 km. Therefore, when the mooring is deployed, OBU position must be closer to
Buoy surface.

This paper will introduce about the model of Indonesia Tsunami Bouy : Tsunami Bouy, Mooring System and
Ocean Bottom Unit (OBU). and also mooring deployment.

Keyword : Tsunami Bouy, Mooring System, Ocean Bottom Unit (OBU), Mooring Deployment.