SOCIB Balearic islands Coastal Observing
and Forecasting System

SOCIB and Balearic Islands Lifeguards
An example of data products and services that provide direct social benefits


Paz Rotllan Garcia (DCF)

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Breeding ground:
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  • January 2016: kick-off Discovery of sectors with common ocean data interests

  • June 2016: primary list
    - Marine and coastal research
    -Maritime safety
    -Marine sports
    -Beach and coastal communities
    -Coastal protection and planning and governance

  • September 2016: working team definition
    - Coordinator (project manager)
    -Developers (Makers)
    -Internal Expert (expertise & network)
    - External expert (tester)

  • October 2016: Hands-on!
    - Lifeguard product
    -Operational Oceanography for Sustainable Fisheries tool (OSFish tool)
    - Diving product

  • November 2018: Status
    - Lifeguard product into Production
    -Operational Oceanography for Sustainable Fisheries tool (OSFish tool) beta version
    - Diving product stand-by

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PRODUCT MAIN FEATURES
& BENEFITS

Web & Mobile App main features
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COMMON FEATURES WEB & MOBILE

  • browse through 353 beaches through a select menu & input search
  • access through a select menu & input search past (calendar selection), present (default view) and future (48 hours) critical metocean data [2] wind speed, wind direction, rain, pressure, wave height/direction/period of waves etc
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EXTRA FEATURES MOBILE

  • browse through up to 353 beaches through a map
  • create favourites (shortcuts for a quick access to certain beaches)
  • create alarms over a set of variables for any beach
  • receive notifications and check them whenever needed
Quick look

Main Benefits

  • Single acces point (ease daily reports fill-in)
  • Hazard mitigation (close/open beaches base on forecast or/and notifications)
  • Same resource for decision making (skipping unrelaible inputs)
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DATA SOURCES

Web & Mobile App main data sources
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DATA SOURCES WEB & MOBILE

  • WMOP - Western Mediterranean Operational Forecasting System
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DATA SOURCES WEB & MOBILE

  • SAPO - Autonomous Wave Forecast System
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DATA SOURCES WEB & MOBILE

  • SAPO - Autonomous Wave Forecast System
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DATA SOURCES WEB & MOBILE

  • SAPO - Autonomous Wave Forecast System
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DATA SOURCES WEB & MOBILE

  • WRF - Weather Research & Forecasting Model
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KEY ACTORS

Web & Mobile App responsibles
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COMMON KEY ACTORS WEB & MOBILE

Coordinator
Emma Heslop
Developers
Paz Rotllan, Biel Frontera, Juan Gabriel Fernandez, Miquel Angel Rujula, Xisco Notario (beta tester), Inma Ruiz (regional ranges)
Internal experts
Amaya Alvarez, Baptiste Mourre, Mélanie Juza, LLuis Gomez
External experts
Illes Balears lifeaguards [1] one representative from each municipality
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OTHER KEY ACTORS MOBILE

Massimo De Faveri & Jorge Chao Mateu

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WEB & MOBILE

Web & Mobile App development
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WEB & MOBILE

Emulate's some of the 12 agile methodology principles:

  • Customer satisfaction through early and continuous software delivery
  • Accommodate changing requirements throughout the development process
  • Collaboration between the business stakeholders and developers throughout the project
  • Enable face-to-face interactions
  • Simplicity
  • Self-organizing teams encourage great architectures, requirements, and designs
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WEB & MOBILE

Last user survey

Data usability

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WEB & MOBILE

Last user survey

Friendliness

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TECHNOLOGIES
UNDER THE HOOD

Web & Mobile App main technologies
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TECHNOLOGIES WEB & MOBILE

  • Postgres DB
  • Unidata THREDDS
  • Web services in Python (Django framework)
  • Notification System (Python scripts + cron jobs)
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TECHNICAL DEBT
& FUTURE CHALLENGES

Web & Mobile App main bests and challenges
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TECHNICAL DEBT WEB & MOBILE

  • Django web services behind Mobile & Web App to be fully exchangeable
  • Automate back and forth iteration with users (i.e Lifeguard feedback for data source validation ?)
  • ....
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FUTURE CHALLENGES WEB & MOBILE

  • Machine Learning hotspot?:
    • Suggesting lifeguards certain moves based on the characterization of the beach flag & environmental conditions relationship
    • Discover y of new research topics via alarm settings analysis (highlingh user's concerns)
    • .....
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