The shore station consists of a MS Windows computer, the LAKEMON software, a modem, an antenna if required and an Internet connection. The telemetry type will depend on the site. The lake station is programmed to sample at one or several schedules and the data are stored internally. The logger and LAKEMON are programmed to transmit data to the shore station at regular intervals. Data acquisition, generation of log files, ftp’ing of data to a web page for ease of display among many users and monitoring of the LDS operation can all be a part of the LDS package.

The LAKEMON software interfaces with the data logger and the telemetry to control the sampling schedule and transmission of data to the shore station.