What we do
The Ropeless Network is a shared cloud service that allows Manufacturers and Gear Marking solution providers to share location data in a safe and efficient manner. Access is strictly controlled and those sharing data can anonymize it to protect sensitive information.
How we do it
Each ropeless fishing gear manufacturer will provide their own tracking system or support a third party app to track ropeless gear. This network does not impose any restrictions on the tracking systems or technologies they use.
Each tracking system will have some sort of data store for the data collected by their tracking apps. A manufacturer supplied application will determine which data to share and send it to the Ropeless Network. In return, they will get position data from other manufacturers to help eliminate entanglements and crossing trap lines.
The data sent by the manufacturer will also indicate which regulators the trap data should be shared with.
Sample Data
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{ "format_version" : 0.1 , "api_key" : "2a175e32-889a-46e5-a45d-66b1452672fb" , "deployments" : [{ "deployment_id" : "d7ae78a6-6daf-4f84-808a-1a71f7852364" , "start_latitude" : "12.34567" , "start_longitude" : "-123.45678" , "start_datetime_utc" : "2000-01-02T14:56:12Z" , "surface_datetime_utc" : "2000-01-03T14:56:12" , "retrieved_datetime_utc" : null , "status" : "deployed" , "accuracy" : "GPS" , "deployment_type" : "line", "traps_in_set" : 5 , "end_latitude" : "12.33333" , "end_longitude" : "-123.444444" , "end_datetime_utc" : "2000-01-02T14:56:12Z" , "trawl_path" : "" , "share_with" : [ "CADFW" , "NOAA1" ], "vessel_id" : "ffdaf76e-67bd-4af8-9e02-8ac02b8f687d" }] } |
Flexible Data Structure
The data format has been designed to be easy to read and understand. There are very few required fields and each data packet can contain whichever optional fields that are appropriate.
With this approach, if a specific fishery needs an additional data field, no other fisheries will be affected.
The only identifier that is not annonymized by the manufacturer is the api_key, which is used to identify the manufacturer which is needed for security and to know which records to send in reply to an "others" request.
