01 / ENERGY
Silence can be informative.
The event gate makes a non-transmission legible: the model knows that local change stayed below a documented threshold.
Coastal sensing / low-power systems
Tidal Memory:
Learning the Coast
Between Transmissions
A sparse sensor network reconstructs nearshore change by learning when local measurements are worth the energy required to send them.
Self-contained project-page demonstration
Abstract
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Nearshore sensing is limited by batteries, weather, and intermittent radio. Tidal Memory evaluates a fictional event-triggered policy that compresses local history and transmits only when a measurement changes the shared coastal estimate. In the demonstration dataset, the policy preserves the reported reconstruction target while reducing radio use; all values below are illustrative rather than real research claims.
41%illustrative radio reduction
0.08illustrative normalized error
9 moillustrative deployment horizon
Method
Three layers of selective memory
The study separates what each station remembers, when it transmits, and how the shore model combines asynchronous evidence. Select a stage to examine the corresponding mechanism.
Local memory encodes change, not noise
Each station keeps a short, bounded summary of recent conditions and their uncertainty. The summary is designed for a low-power device and can be inspected without the shore model.
12 samplesillustrative local window
Findings
What the example supports
These are intentionally fictional demonstration findings. A real project page must replace every line with evidence traced to its supplied paper.
02 / UNCERTAINTY
Every estimate carries a boundary.
The reconstructed field includes an uncertainty band that expands as stations remain quiet or links fail.
03 / OPERATIONS
Local history remains inspectable.
Technicians can review the bounded station summary without replaying a hidden cloud pipeline.
This demonstration does not validate coastal physics, hardware endurance, or the numerical values shown above. It assumes calibrated stations and excludes storm damage, biofouling, and adversarial radio conditions. A real page must copy limitations from the supplied manuscript without softening them.
Citation
Reference the work
The citation is complete, selectable, and local to the page. Replace this fictional record with the paper's verified bibliographic data.
@article{hart2026tidal,\n title={Tidal Memory: Learning the Coast Between Transmissions},\n author={Hart, Leona and Mendel, Ivo and Quill, Samira},\n journal={Fictional Coastal Systems Review},\n year={2026}\n}