Table 4.

Systematic review results: Organizational aspects.

No	Country	Project	Organization	Year of the deployment	Period of tests	Place of tests	Is the project working?	Ref.
1	USA	LakeNet	University of Notre Dame	2005	10 days	St. Mary’s Lake (Indiana)	No	[3]
2	China	----	College of Information Engineering, Key Lab of Exploitation and Preservation of Coastal Bioresource, School of Biosystems Eng. and Food Science	2008	6 hours	Zhejiang Province	Yes	[4]
3	Sweden	Klimat	Swedish Institute of Comp. science; Umeǻ Marine Sciences Centre, Uppsala University	2006	20 hour test at office and at Baltic Sea	Umeǻ Marine Sciences Centre; Baltic Sea	No	[5]
4	Australia	Part of SEMAT project	University of Queensland	2007	1 week	One Mile, Moreton Bay	?	[6]
5	UK	SECOAS	University College London, British Telecommunications plc, Itelisys, Kent University, Essex University, University of East Anglia	2008	2 weeks	Scroby snads, Norforlk Coast	No	[7]
6	UK	SmartCoast	University College Cork, Dublin City University, Marine Technologies Division (Ireland)	2006	3 weeks	River Lee in Cork	?	[8]
7	USA	ReCON	Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research	2006, 2008	?	Lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie	?	[9]
8	Australia	GBROOS (Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System)	Australian Institute of Marine Science, James Cook University, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, Australian Museum. Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)	2008–2011	2 years (8.6 million observations collected)	Great Barrier Reef, North-East Coast	Yes	[10]
9	China	----	Hangzhou Dianzi University, Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province	2008	1 month	Artificial lake at HangZhou Dianzi University	?	[11]
10	China	OceanSense	Ocean University of China	2006		Costal waters of China	?	[12]
11	USA	GLUCOS	University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee	2007, 2008	April to June 2008	Lake Michigan off the Milwaukee coast	?	[13]
12	Spain	CMS-OOCMUR	Technical University of Cartagena	2010	1 week	Coastal Lagoon Mar Menor, Cartagena	Yes	[14]