PartyWave aims to leverage a number of concepts that have been tried and tested previously on an individual basis, in order to make a mesh network to connect seagoing civilian and commercial vessels to the internet. The concept leverages a two major technologies; maritime mesh networks and super pressure balloons. For the purpose of this concept design.
Building off of the success of project LOON (https://loon.com/), the solution aims to make used of a network of super pressure balloons linked by laser communications systems. Each balloon also carries a nadir facing parabolic antenna for transmission of a terrestrial 4G LTE band signal for customers. To reduce the number of balloons that are required to cover a stretch of ocean, the meshed network of ships is leveraged such that a ship not in the coverage area of a balloon can relay requests through another ship that is. In this way, a busy shipping lane is connected to data speeds of up to 700 kbps for under $1m for a period of 6 months, with the cost of hardware and service less than half that of the the options offered by Iridium.