Stream Ocean
Sentinel
A monitoring station for ocean projects
- Role
- Founding Designer
- Year
- 2024 · 2026
The problem
Sentinel had to carry camera feeds, weather, sensor readings, population metrics and biodiversity data, for two audiences at once. Marine scientists need depth and raw data. Project stakeholders need to know if the site is healthy, at a glance.
What I did
At Stream Ocean I designed the first Sentinel against one real user, a project manager running a coral restoration in Barbuda, and it shipped in 2024. In 2026 I revisited it as a concept, built in code but never deployed, and split it by task into four pages.
Sites
Sites lists every project with the ones that need attention first, each with its reason. Opening one lands on the survey point that caused it.
Overview
Overview answers four questions on one screen: the condition now, what changed since the last survey, what needs attention, and what the camera last saw. The verdict comes first, with its reason in a sentence.
Analyse
Analyse states its findings as sentences above the charts. Narrow the time window and they're rewritten for what's in view.
Archive
Archive keeps every recording with its detections. In the viewer the boxes follow the fish, and each detection is a dot on the timeline you can jump to.
Review queue
Labels the model scored below 0.60 wait in a queue for a person. Confirm keeps the label, correct replaces it, and the Archive counts the fish under the new species.
Outcome
A working redesign in code across four pages, dark and light.