Katharsis| Internet on the Ocean

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.

Revolutionazing Internet and Communications on the Ocean

We thought of a way to provide Intenet and Communication on the Ocean without using satelites and by using tank ships as Wi-fi repeaters

Katharsis

Hello,

Together with my universtity classmate Kostas we have developed a solution for this challenge;

Using tank ships as Wi-fi repeaters and installing dead point internet providers using the existing sbumarine optical wires in the ocean.

Using this way will help huge problems that exist in the satelite version of delivering data . Without any doubt this is not a problem-free method ,but it is the most practical and efficient solution . It does not require extravagant amounts of money and it is simple to it's core

Lets briefly mention some key points of our project:

Cell towers

The average cost of a cell tower construction is 200,000$ for the whole land based construction . Of which 150,000$ is used for "civil installation" which includes pouring concrete, the mast and its erection, backup generators, fencing, tiny air-conditioned shack, and security systems. The telecommunications guts (baseband processors, transceivers, power supplies, amplifiers, etc) will run a minimum of $20,000 to $50,000 for the equipment -- and another $25,000 for installation . If we take into account that the cost an average tanker ship is 100million dollars . Spending 0.0005% for internet and communication services is in our opinion a good and very reasonable amount.

Efficiency

The average cell tower range is around 45 miles so we have a lot room to cover . When it comes to the ocean that distance is not that much . The average distance betweent two ships in the ocean is 21 miles . But taking into account weather status , different routes and time schedules things can get tricky . So if we add the dead point internet providers to the equation we get even better results.

Thank you for your time , we would love to further analyse this solution and we have a lot of subjects that we had not mention including :

Health risks and problems from on board cell towers .

Cell tower run cost and safe way of on board placement

Companies and stuff willngess to embrace this idea

Floating pad for dead end point internet providers cell tower

Unfortunately that's how far we got during this weekends competition time . We would love to learn what do you think about our idea .

Thank you again ,

Anastasios Aglogallos

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