Coast Guard

Floating station that monitors/reports various environmental conditions on the coast in real time.

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Inspiration

Recent events and natural disasters have caused much destruction to people living on the coast. Weather forecasts are only predictive to a certain degree, and many people are not notified in time during these disasters. We hope to change this by creating a simple, complete package product, that can be deployed on any coast and can send updates in real time to a web based server. The server can also send messages straight to people's phones to alert them in emergencies.

What it does

This station monitors wind speed, temperature of air and water, and wave strength. It then reports via cellular network to a remote server which then creates charts and sends messages as needed.

How we built it

The Particle.io board was used to create the device, Amazon Web Services was used to host the server, and Cisco Spark will be used to create a space in which people can view the data, discuss conditions, and receive alerts.

Challenges we ran into

Both members of this team are electrical engineering students, and did not have as much software experience to create this project as we originally wanted.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud of our implementation of the Particle.io. We believe that this full package solution does not yet exist on the commercial market.

What we learned

So much learning. We played around with Cisco-Spark, and hope to have it running on time for the demonstration.

What's next for Coast Guard

Next, a more robust implementation will be created.

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