Project Details

Awards & Nominations

Baby Shark has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

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.

Ship Chain

Our project solves internet connection problem on the ocean. Idea is ship to ship connection. Every ship will be transceiver according to the mesh network principle. Target area of the project is the main roads of the marine traffic.

Baby Shark

Project challenge is to provide oceans with faster, cheaper and better quality internet. For achieving that goal, we researched already existed technologies. Now sailors, fishermen and marine people use satellite connection, which does not have enough speed and mobility to have undisturbed connection. Also it is too expensive. Satellite internet is quite slow and scientists who do their research on the ocean cannot browse, access or upload big data. We tried to develop the model, which will solve all of these problems.

We read that NASA is going to spread internet in space with “Disruption Tolerant Networking”. This technology was an inspiration for us, so we created ship-to-ship internet connection model. We defined target areas on the ocean, for making our project achievable. We target main routes to be covered by internet, in the marine traffic. Across this routes the ships should be equipped with powerful GSM antennas, which spread the data to the certain area. Additionally, It is not necessary all ships across the main routs to have the GSM stations; moreover, if the ship without antenna appears near the "chain" it will use internet and the GSM connection as well. The data from AIS and NASA is used to define high density routes and to obtain environmental properties (temperature, humidity and weather) on the surface of the ocean, respectively.

As innovators and not inventors we are hacking this problem using already existed technology.