Source: DARPA, December 6, 2017
DARPA’s Ocean of Things program seeks to enable persistent maritime situational awareness over large ocean areas by deploying thousands of small, low-cost floats that could form a distributed sensor network. Each smart float would contain a suite of commercially available sensors to collect environmental data—such as ocean temperature, sea state, and location—as well as activity data about commercial vessels, aircraft, and even maritime mammals moving through the area. The floats would transmit data periodically via satellite to a cloud network for storage and real-time analysis. The technical challenge lies in two key areas: float development and data analytics. A Proposers Day is scheduled for January 4, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia. Read more