PHAlpha: The Robot for Cleaning Oceans From Plastics

** 04th Jan. 2019 **

Today I finally received the SONY boards, awesome hardware, thank you!

Please organizer, could you extend the submission deadline to make the contest more fair? I know there are more developers from EU in the same conditions. Thank you so much!

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The proposed system consists of a compact sized catamaran capable of cleaning the sea autonomously and monitoring the chemical, physical and biological quality of the water. The on-board systems are modular and can be assembled or combined with each other depending on the service requested.

Services:

• Floating waste collection especially of synthetic and plastic materials
• Continuous monitoring of the quality and pollution of sea water
• Water sampling at different depths for analysis

Online monitoring system:

• Cloud platform to view and manage environmental data, telemetry, map navigation programming, remote control of equipment.

The main operating characteristics:

• Always active, 24hx7, with night navigation lights
• With Artificial Intelligence and "Deep Learning"
• With multiple sensors to avoid collisions
• With solar panels and automatic wireless recharge at docking
• Connected via: LoRa RF, WIFI, 4G / LTE, Iridium satellite for global coverage
• Deactivated via hardware emergency lever and from remote plus redundant lost-of-contact logic
• With redundant control systems: one active, the other on but in stand-by

Construction features:

• In laser cut steel
• With black rubber protection along the edges, yellow hull with reflectors
• Unsinkable, with watertight compartments filled with polyurethane foam