Our website, notessential.io has most of our previous work showcased. However, since this project is recent there is much more to share with you.

Coral Connect links directly to the Coral Husbandry Automated Raceway Machine known as CHARM. This technology offers a working solution to create and adapt existing efforts of sustainable land-based nurseries providing the capability for more streamlined locations worldwide. The marriage between CHARM and Coral Connect ensures large-scale, consistent, and precise coral restoration by merging machine automation and deep vision learning with AI-driven management. This means that tank health, diversity, stability, and viable coral ratios are directly improved in an efficient and measurable process making it possible to create more coral per meter cubed in a shorter period. All coral grown by CHARM is farmed sustainably in solar powered scalable tanks on land.

Coral Connect efficiently combats the problem of disengagement by leveraging blockchain technology to provide a transparent platform where donors can witness their contributions in action through a digital asset that mirrors the growth of the actual coral they support. Coral Connect solidifies trust and encourages real-time engagement between donors and reef restoration efforts. Each coral is grafted to discs which can be personalized. Users are invited to experience live-data updates including current GPS location, coral feeding, and live streams of growing coral. This project aims to create a scalable, efficient, data-driven approach to coral restoration that can serve as a model for global efforts and become the gold standard for charitable stewardship.

Our solution is adaptive to increased tank size and tooling allowing it to accommodate an exponential increase in the number of corals grown, users, and data features. The set up is a modular system making it easy to install in multitudes of locations allowing it to be tailored to a stakeholder's specific needs and economical limitations. The complete set up cost and maintenance for each site is kept to a minimum by operating on renewable energy with the ability to be accessed and monitored remotely. This ensures the project can be implemented across diverse economies with a large reduction in labor costs and skill set requirement making the proposed solution affordable and implementable in diverse economies. The transferability of the CHARM, Coral Connect, and the software upon which it is built can be implemented in any new location or existing land-based coral nursery. Coral Connect can be used for data aggregation of any land and field-based nursery operations worldwide. 

We believe our efficient, cost-effective solution will become the new gold standard of coral restoration. Our proposal showcases multidisciplinary data aggregation, unique user experiences, and transparency to dynamically change the landscape of coral regeneration and philanthropic engagement.

