An Open Source/Hack-a-thon/Volunteer Project

For those who love Hawaii

It's time to give back to the land we love

Problem Statement: Coqui Frogs are invasive to the Hawaiian Islands. They're coming for Oahu...

Current Management: Community and Field Crews are fighting the good fight in the forests

Mission Success = Keep frogs isolated and manage them down - Forever...

Mission Failure = Frogs Established in the Cities.

End State: Let's see if we can't built some digital tools for the community and field crews battling it out on the ground. 

MVP:  Create a set of tools to provide >75% accuracty rate (Distance and Direction) on frog positions. 

MVP Success criteria: Goal Zero in within 1 Meter via End User Device for application of management solution.

Idea 1: Use the hardware available locally to build a detection network. Use End User Devices to "zero in" on the frog. This focuses on targeted removal by community and field crews. 

Idea 2: Develop specialized fix station hardware (can we reuse some Alexa Sensors?). Early detection application that can be deployed across the Amazon Alex Network, iPhone, Android Network - It just collects and reports the position of frogs for ingest into a heat map. Uses the devices GPS location anonomized to publish data points. - This allows non-invested areas to know they are non-infested. This allows for early detection of the frog. The frogs are nocturnal so we need things working while we're sleeping.