Project Details
The Challenge | Internet on the Ocean
The internet is not easily accessible in many areas of the world, like the Earth’s oceans. Fishermen, sailors, and others have limited data connection with the rest of the world. Although satellite internet is widely available, it is very expensive for a user to implement. Your challenge is to design a low-cost method of delivering internet to people located far away on the ocean.
Intercontinental Network System
INS aims to provide with internet the most number of vessels in the ocean as possible
We designed a concept for reliable internet connection across the ocean for anyone with the means (i.e. cellular antennas) to connect with a RF signal through a distributed mesh type network using naval buoys.
We used the Disruption Tolerant Networking concept to strengthen ours and complement the mesh network to ensure a connection is always possible