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title: "A bridge over (not) troubled waters: Collecting marine data from your couch - Sarah Kaiser"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-bridge-over-not-troubled-waters-collecting-marine-data-from-your-couch---sarah-kaiser-idey5troc
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQKRTlau4Y
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source: "PyCon US"
published: 2026-07-02T18:29:12.422Z
updated: 2026-07-02T20:16:45.893Z
reading_time: 30
upvotes: 0
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language: en
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# A bridge over (not) troubled waters: Collecting marine data from your couch - Sarah Kaiser

**[PyCon US](https://daily.dev/sources/pyconus)** · 30 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Do you ever have a weird feeling that something around you is off? I certainly do, and one recurring thought I have is that the vintage boat I'm helping restore has sunk. I decided to use the tools available to me to put my mind at ease: software, a soldering iron, and stubbornness. My crewmate and I have built a way to get live data from our boat while on the couch at home at 3 am :) Data is a great way to reduce anxiety, and in this case has also generated a rising tide of interest in marine tech infrastructure. In this talk, we will give you a tour the cool Python and OSS tools we have discovered for collecting telemetry on boats, a specialized marine data collection platform (Signal K), and an MQTT bridge to bring it all into our smart home dashboards on Home Assistant.

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