Environmental Defense Fund
Smart Boat Initiative
Request for Proposals: 2019 Fisheries Electronic Technology Service Provider
DATE: April 18th, 2019
POINT OF CONTACT: Christopher Cusack; ccusack@edf.org
EDF is seeking a suitably qualified technology and services provider (provider) to work with us and our fishermen partners to design, implement, and test a set of physical technologies, data management protocols, and data analysis methodologies that improve the efficiency of the data storage, transmission, management, and analysis process on the West Coast of the U.S. Leveraging the existing data management protocol as a point of reference we aim to conduct a rigorous economic (costs, time implications) and technical (accuracy, consistency) comparison of a next generation system, one that includes these three attributes:
1) Wireless transmission of video and sensor data direct to cloud storage,
2) Cloud based storage and access of video and sensor data on the cloud, and
3) Harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify and parse the data segments that need to be reviewed (such as fishing or discard events) by video analysts.
