2013/04/10 Accra, Ghana
Protei.org Autonomous Sailing robot for transport of Ocean Sensors (2014) and Clean up equipment (2015) Cesar HARADA CEO : contact@protei.org Gabriella LEVINE COO : gabriella.levine@gmail.com
Today in Brasil: $5M fine
2010: BP Oil Spill
Oil Spill Cleanup
Inspiration
Inspiration
Invention
Demo
Community Development
Swarm Control
one can
one must
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credit
modify
document & share
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Open Technology
Dec 2013: 1 meter
June 2014: 6 meters
Fisheries Monitoring
Coral Reef Mapping
Cosmic Ray Detection
Sea-level rise Climate study
Algae Bloom Research
Range of Applications
Underwater Cmmunication
Custom sensor 1: underwater geiger-muller counter
Custom sensor 2 : continuous optical plankton counter
Radioactivity / Plastic measure
Conventional Oceanographic ship $3,500,000 Low Resolution
Protei fleet (10 units) $50,000 High Resolution
Patented
Open Source Hardware
Competition
Modular Sailing Robot Oil
Fisheries
Oceanography
Plastic
Modular Sailing Robot
Radioactivity
Cesar Harada, CEO Entrepreneur Inventor Environmentalist Senior TED Fellow Former MIT Project Leader Figure of Progress, IBM & GOOD
Gabriella Levine, COO Open Source Hardware Designer Top 24 Women in Tech Former Cancer Researcher, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Leaders
Protei in Ghana
Work with Oil Industries
SINOPEC Platform
Work with Fishermen
Axium FIshermen
Work with Government
Ghanian Government
Work with Academia
University of Ghana
Next steps 2013 July: determine 1 topic for collaboration that is relevant and that is most likely to be funded in Ghana 2013 August: Build a proposal with partners 2013 Sept, Oct, Nov: Technology development. 2013 Dec: manufacture, Permissions, logistics of travelling 2014 Feb, March: data collection on site in Ghana, Analysis
Protei for Ghana
The Next Frontier
contact@protei.org