Sea-Fi| 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.

Sea-fi

Life is too short, our connection is not

We accepted the challenge!

We are very enthusiastic about the possibilities and opportunities that the advances related to technology have been bringing to the society all around the world, so we decided to pick the challenge “Internet on the Oceans” because it asked a provision of internet access to those who need.

https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/ear...

The solution:

Sea-fi was born from the need of people to stay connected. Have you ever imagined the possibilities of keeping your connection on your devices even in the ocean? We came to make it possible.

Through Internet of Things (IoT) devices, strategically distributed along the coastal area of state of São Paulo, you can connect to the rest of the world through our network.

We will use buoys as access points and wi-fi repeaters to deliver internet to the people who work on the seas and many times don’t have conditions or access points to afford an internet plan via satellite, considering that today the human kind is each time relying more on the internet to their safety, security, entertainment, health and family.

Software:

We looked forward to create a map demonstrating the buoys available, in the example resources we saw that the examples provided by NASA were focusing on space internet connection, as the data didn’t suit our goal, we used the Google Maps API to gather buoy information.

The application’s backend was created with ASP.NET Core, C#, SQL Server and Entity Framework to connect them. The Frontend was built with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap and jQuery.