One mesh, two verticals
Marine Aquaculture & Fleet Safety
A single offline, peer-to-peer mesh, PWA, and AR visualization stack serving commercial aquaculture and fleet tracking on one side, and public water safety on the other—one codebase, one database, one onboarding path.
All fp Mesh Networks are connected by the same radio-cellphone hybrid app.
Lobster trap mapping mesh network
An offline, peer-to-peer fleet mesh that logs trap coordinates, syncs ropeless gear references boat-to-boat, and carries right whale mitigation alerts across the fleet—entirely independent of cellular towers or internet access at sea. Kelp farming and finfish aquaculture are planned as additional gear types on this same mesh, rather than separate platforms.
The current bottleneck
Captains bear the operational risk, offshore
Longer offshore runs to the outer shelf burn margin before a single trap is hauled.
Entanglement exposure and federal mandates shift real operational risk onto individual captains.
Cellular towers drop the moment a vessel clears the horizon, so standard tracking apps stop working exactly when they're needed.
Subsurface, acoustic-triggered trap lines remove the surface buoy captains have relied on to relocate gear.
A shared ledger that works with no cell signal
A browser-native PWA hooks into the Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth radios already built into fleet smartphones. Dropping a string logs its coordinate locally; passing boats carry that record horizontally across the fleet, half a mile at a time.
When a string of pots goes over, the near-geospatial coordinate block is logged locally on the vessel—no cellular or internet connection required to record it.
Logged strings hop horizontally from vessel to vessel over Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth as boats pass within range, building a shared ledger of gear positions across the fleet.
Acoustic-release trap strings are tied to the same logged coordinate, giving a crew a documented reference point for triggering and relocating subsurface gear.
Because the ledger is shared across the mesh, captains can see where other logged strings already sit before setting new gear in a sector.
Right whale mitigation
A sighting travels the mesh ahead of the whale
The same horizontal mesh that carries shark-detection and deterrent signals carries right whale tracking vectors—warning boats before gear goes in the water near a flagged sector.
- 01Sighting logged
A spotting plane, research vessel, or ocean glider records a right whale tracking vector.
- 02Packet broadcast
The warning propagates horizontally across the fleet mesh, hopping vessel to vessel ahead of the animal's path.
- 03Sector flagged
Boats approaching the affected sector receive an alert before setting pots in that area.
- 04Captain decides
The crew—not the app—chooses whether to pause, reroute, or hold gear based on the flagged sector and their own judgment.
- 05Compliance record
A time-stamped record of the alert and the sector supports gear-mitigation compliance reporting.
What a captain sees on approach
A conceptual view of the same information surfaced on a phone or tablet without a headset—useful for planning a run before gear ever goes over the rail.
Gear strings
Logged
Sector status
No flags
Decision
Captain controlled
Shark detection mesh network
A local marine-awareness concept centered on waterproof transponders deployed across clearly mapped swimming zones, connected with authorized drones, buoys, shore cameras, lifeguards, and verified sightings—running on the same mesh, PWA, and checkout stack as the aquaculture vertical above.
Water-level mesh
A layered view of the swimming area
No single sensor is treated as certainty. The concept combines independent observations, preserves where each signal came from, and keeps people responsible for operational decisions.
Mapped nearshore nodes relay observations and report battery, connectivity, and maintenance status.
Offshore nodes extend local coverage and provide environmental context where authorized.
Trained operators can contribute time-stamped aerial observations within applicable aviation rules.
Approved camera systems add visible-surface observations with strict access and retention controls.
Lifeguards, harbor teams, and verified observers review confidence before public guidance is issued.
Conceptual status—not live beach or wildlife data.
Swim zone
Mapped
Node health
Reported
Decision
Human controlled
Mapped, offline-triggered deterrent vectors
Beyond swim-zone detection, the same mesh can map and coordinate localized deterrent zones around gillnets—triggering acoustic, kinetic, and scent-based signals across the fleet mesh without depending on cellular or internet connectivity.
Underwater transducers on buoys and vessel hulls play localized sound signatures—recorded orca vocalizations or high-frequency white noise—aimed at overwhelming a shark's sensitive acoustic sensors near gear and swim boundaries.
Waterproof transponders on gillnets and boundary lines pulse low-frequency, rhythmic kinetic thuds through motorized weights, mimicking disruptive environmental signals that discourage sharks from approaching the gear footprint.
The mesh maps real-time current vectors to coordinate localized organic scent barriers along a mapped line, intended to create a deterrent boundary near nets and swim areas—subject to environmental and permitting review before any deployment.
Confidence-aware signal flow
A transponder or authorized sensor creates a time-stamped observation.
The mesh preserves sensor type, zone, health state, and source history.
Multiple inputs are compared and presented with an explicit confidence level.
Authorized beach-safety personnel assess the evidence and local conditions.
Only authorized teams issue closures, warnings, or approved public guidance.
Shared real-time visualization
One AR layer, both verticals
While transponder triggers and coordinate syncing run offline across the same P2P mesh, captains, harbormasters, and lifeguards track the active overlays through an AR headset—trap strings, thermoclines, and whale markers on one side; deflection lines and sensor zones on the other, all rendered by the same visualization stack.
Trap string paths
Coordinate-locked lines trace each logged subsurface string beneath the hull, down to the reference point captains recorded.
Bottom-temperature thermoclines
Layered thermocline bands are rendered against recorded bottom-temperature readings to help locate active migration channels.
Whale path markers
Flagged right whale sectors from the fleet mesh appear as coordinate-locked boundary markers over the water.
Deflection lines
Approach trajectories, sound-radius bubbles, and vibration wave fronts render against a net rig or the live environment.
Deployment reality
Designed around the water, not dropped into it
One shared mesh does not mean one shared set of rules. Each vertical carries its own regulatory weight, engineering constraints, and maintenance plan.
Aquaculture & Fleet Tracking
- Bottom type, current, tide, and depth all affect how reliably a logged coordinate maps to gear on later retrieval
- Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth mesh range depends on line-of-sight and vessel spacing, not guaranteed fleet-wide coverage
- Right whale sector alerts depend entirely on the timeliness and accuracy of the sighting that triggered them
- Federal gear-marking, ropeless-trigger, and closure rules vary by season and region and must be followed regardless of what the mesh reports
Public Water Safety
- Anchoring or mounting, water depth, spacing, tides, currents, and retrieval access
- Saltwater corrosion, marine growth, battery service, connectivity checks, and tamper resistance
- Visibility to swimmers and vessels, navigation safety, environmental permits, and wildlife impact
- Local spectrum rules, weather and visibility limits, inspection schedules, retention, and removal