Los Avengers| 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.

OceaNet

OceaNet is an innovative solution for providing internet on the ocean without relying in satellites with the purpose of lowering the cost of internet connection for users in the ocean.

Los Avengers

We chose this challenge because oceans covers 71% of the Earth's surface, this means that almost 71% of the world lacks or has poor internet connection. Therefore, we believed that together as a team we could find a way to solve this issue.

We are hoping to use the internet coming from the fiber-optic cables that already exist by creating nodes which will go upwards, connecting with buoys which will receive the information from the cable and transmit it as sound waves. At the same time the boats floating above will transmit RF signals and when both of the signals crash, the sound waves will go upwards and be detected by the same radar and then convert it into digital signals. The system would use the DTN system developed by the NASA.

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NASA Resources:

https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/Near-Earth-Application-of-Delay-Disruption-Toleran/usab-6tur