Berlin - A tsunami early-warning system is scheduled to go into operation in the Indian Ocean on November 11, the German research team that developed it said Friday.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will attend the inauguration along with representatives of the German government, the Geo Forschungs Zentrum (GFZ) said.

The German government financed the 45-million-euro (58-million- dollar) project launched after the Asian Tsunami of December 2004, which claimed 230,000 lives.

The GFZ said the death toll would have been considerably lower if an early warning system had been in place at the time.

The system makes use of sensors placed on the seabed which relay details of changes in water pressure to buoys on the surface. The information is then transmitted via satellite to a tsunami early-warning centre in Indonesia. (dpa)