It's a way to transmit files to the field and disseminate them in the field to smartphones. You need one radio receiver that picks up satellite L band and then it should be possible to mesh smartphones on the ground. ie no Internet connection is required and the radio is self contained with a small solar panel.
Cheerio John On 21 Nov 2016 8:38 am, "Rich Uk" <urbanpermaculture.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jeremy > > Perhaps I should just state the problem I'm interested in and see whats's > suggested.. > > So I'm interested in this project http://www.outernet.is the developers > are interested in enabling some kind of mesh protocol on the Lantern > devices. http://discuss.outernet.is/t/lantern-v2-photos/2616 these > devices receive 20Mb/ day data from satellites. > > One use case for their service is disaster comms, where solar powered > lanterns serve data (weather, news) to people via wifi to phones/ tablets > etc. > (Serval.apk could possibly be one of the pieces of data that's served, > another thought I had was https://piratebox.cc/android) > > So where you have a village with one functioning lantern, serving people > within 20meters with data from space, how can Serval best help to move that > data to people outside of the 20meter range? Can it help take load off the > small SBC that's struggling to serve 50 people wifi? Does it help in this > use case? > > This is the hardware currently being used http://docs.getchip.com/ > chip.html#chip-hardware > > Thanks > > Sam > > > > > > > On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 12:13:07 AM UTC, Jeremy Lakeman wrote: > Serval runs it's own mesh routing protocol. Running serval on top of > another routing protocol will add extra overhead. > > Our text messaging protocol doesn't depend on an end-to-end network path. > Messages will be stored and copied opportunistically, whenever any number > of devices join the same network. > > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Rich Uk <urbanpermac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > If I set up a network of https://getchip.com/pages/chip devices running > Adhoc/ Batman > > > Will Serval be able to connect to that network and use it to send text > messages between two phones connected to it? Or is it more complicated than > that > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Serval Project Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to serval-project-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to serval-proje...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/serval-project- > developers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Serval Project Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to serval-project-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to serval-project-developers@ > googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/serval-project- > developers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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