Radio Pirates| Internet on the Ocean

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Awards & Nominations

Radio Pirates 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.

SeaByte

What if you could access the internet from any place in the world? How? By connecting through radio, of course!

Let's say you are in the middle of the ocean and you have no means to connect to the internet and also you lack phone signal. This could cause serious situations starting from losing touch with your loved ones to getting completely lost out on the ocean.

The idea is that every boat has a built in radio.

We focused on finding a solution to use radio signals to send the end user's request for something (anything) from the world wide web and getting the response back from an endpoint. The endpoint is connected to an assistant (such as Google Assistant) and we delegated the responsability of finding and retrieving whatever you are looking for to it. The channel on which the data is transmitted is one created by the radios on each boat.