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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.

The drones network

A network of water drones, which provides Internet connection in distant parts of the oceans and take important measurments

young engineers

We suggest using a network of water drones, which provides Internet connection in distant parts of the ocean.

The system consists of two levels: stations and drones. Stations are big ships like aircraft carriers. Stations repairs and charges drones, controls drones` movement and processes data. The drones are modular, which will increase the flexibility of the system. They are equipped with antennas and sensors, which can provide different important measurments like water temperature, pollution, atmosphere pressure, water surface fluctuations, etc. This data is transmitted to the stations for processing. This way, our system can predict natural disasters. It is very importent thing.

In case of storm, our drones dive under water and leave a floating antennas on the water surgace, which provides them a connection with their station.

We suggest getting energy from renewable sources like Sun and wind to make our system eco-friendly. Since the station is large, we can place a large number of solar panels on it. The part of the energy will be used for hydrogen fuel production, We suggest using a hydrogen fuel because this way we can reduce the size of the energy cell.