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 +====== Current Standards ======
  
 +==== NMEA 0813 ====
 +  * Well known
 +  * Easily hacked
 +
 +==== NMEA 2000 (N2K) ====
 +
 +  * Proprietary
 +  * Standardizes PHY and cabling
 +  * Must register and assign PGNs
 +  * Must buy into the cartel
 +
 +====== New Standard ======
 +
 +  * Wireless out of the box (using Flutter Wireless)
 +  * IPv6-based too much data on wire?  Too confusing?
 +  * Open Standard
 +    * Website to register vendor and data codes
 +    * Benevolent dictators of standard
 +    * We approve vendor and data codes
 +
 +==== Protocol Details ====
 +
 +  * Easily tied into standard Ethernet
 +  * L3 Protocol
 +    * IPv6
 +    * Put data directly into IPv6 extension header (header 60 maybe)?
 +  * Data grouped into multicast addresses
 +  * L4 Protocol
 +    * Existing one out there in RFC land?
 +    * SCTP for life critical
 +    * UDP or own raw protocol for normal traffic
 +  * Author an RFC?
 +  * Version number as part of header
 +    * 1 - NMEA 0813
 +    * 2 - NMEA 2000
 +    * 4 - Reef41
 +
 +==== Name Brainstorming ====
 +
 +=== Company ===
 +  * Future Marine, LLC.
 +  * Marine of Things, LLC. (MoT)
 +  * Nauticom, LLC.
 +  * Use Nenticom?
 +
 +=== Protocol ===
 +
 +  * ReefCOM
 +  * Reef41 (R41 protocol)
 +  * Marine41
 +  * N41
 +
 +=== Product Line ===
 +
 +  * Coral
 +
 +====== Products ======
 +
 +  * CoralWind
 +    * Wind, sail, weather station related instruments
 +    * Maybe a separate CoralWeather
 +  * CoralPower
 +    * Engine management
 +  * CoralHead
 +    * N2K gateway, hub for flutter devices
 +    * One version could have wifi
 +  * CoralPatch
 +    * Flutter device that takes an existing device's N2K data and converts it to wireless
 +
 +===== Notes =====
 +
 +  * Solar Power
 +    * Sort of an open version of TikTack product line (now Raymarine)
 +    * Doesn't work 24x7
 +  * In-line power
 +    * Tap into power going to device being measured (with CoralPatch)
 +
 +====== Startup Resources ======
 +  * Protocol standard developer (embedded, protocols, C language)
 +  * IOS/Android app developer for reading data
 +  * Website, outsourced
 +  * Test equipment
 +    * N2K protocol reader equipment
 +  * Office or hacker space with room for permanently located hardware
 +  * Budget for marine conferences (travel, entrance fees)
 +
 +====== Benefits ======
 +
 +  * Wireless from the start
 +  * And Internet of Things based mentality
 +    * Make it easy to put everything on a network
 +  * Cost less than products with N2K markup
 +  * Allow other companies to develop products around the protocol
 +
 +====== Challenges ======
 +
 +  * Reverse N2K without getting sued?
 +  * N2K has huge market share and is industry standard
 +  * Mostly towards recreational market
 +  * Getting the word out: marine conferences, distributors (defender.com)
 +  * Augment existing products or create own?
 +
 +====== Research ======
 +
 +  * Arduino for CoralHead
 +    * Protocol stacks on Arduino (IPv6)
 +    * N2K interface in Arduino, 
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