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It is our mission to build an entirely community-owned balloon network.
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We hope to empower African university students to become local climate change leaders.
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We aim to make sure the data is made 100% public and sent through a real-time transparent data pipeline owned by no private company.
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We use disruptive technologies such as blockchain, LoRaWAN Internet of Things, 3D printing, and open source hardware to keep costs low.
“We’re taking the eosio blockchain to the edge of space.”
Nicolas lopez | Founder
Background
Every day at 0Z and 12Z, hundreds of balloons are launched all over the world to gather data that is fed into numerical weather models to make forecasts and to help local forecasters determine the instability of the atmosphere in their location.
However, over Western Africa there are a handful to zero. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has found the reason to be the following:
Cost of maintaining data collection methods
Lack of regional government understanding and care
Decay and apathy of previously-deployed sensors
Solution
United by a shared interest in eosio blockchain technology, we engineers work with university students in Nigeria to launch low-cost weather balloons every day at 12Z.
The blockchain serves as a trusted middleware to store the observations and unlock digital currency to the students who launch them.
More information can be found in our live ongoing proposal with the Telos Worker Proposal System.