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I recently proposed an idea to create a new data transfer protocol that involves drones to carry data in a medium with a prong attached to them. When the drone
by ketanmaheshwari 5y ago
I recently proposed an idea to create a new data transfer protocol that involves drones to carry data in a medium with a prong attached to them.
When the drone lands on a platform atop a building, the prong connects to a computer connected to the platform and sitting inside the building triggering a mount action.
The data gets transferred to the computer. Now, whoever needs to transfer data from this building to another will use the same method to upload it.
I do not think this will be the best way to move data but if a protocol is in place it could be used as a basis for future intra-campus data movement.
The proposal was shot down. A schematic of the idea is drawn here: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/datadrone/blob/main/schematic.pdf https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/datadrone/blob/main/sche...
- jcims 5y agoBuild it for transporting beer and just start attaching SSDs to the bottles.
- trzy 5y agoBut why?
- visarga 5y agoTo actually hear your data buzzing around?
- topspin 5y agoUse cases for this are easy to imagine. For example; data collected by instruments in remote locations that do not have high capacity or cost effective network connections. When collection has to be done by a human it could require days or weeks, perhaps more. Whereas an automated system could perform the task more frequently.
- ncc-erik 5y agoI took a networks class during college, and there was a homework question from the textbook about a scenario like this. It had you compare transferring a large amount of data over the Internet versus loading it onto a disk and driving a physical distance to load it onto the other computer. The answer depended on the available bandwidth against the distance to drive. And for other practical applications related to this idea: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
- ketanmaheshwari 5y agoA few reasons: -- Cost: Drones are getting faster, accurate, reliable and cheap while storage devices are getting lighter and denser. If a protocol is in place, vast amount of data could be moved relatively cheaper at a faster rate. -- Auxiliary Medium: If a campus network is down due to security threats or assessment or some other reason, this protocol may be used to pass critical data around. -- Remote, inaccessible (edge) locations: Places where conventional network is difficult to setup due to temporal nature or hazardous conditions etc.
- pfarrell 5y agoI'll put this old witticism forward... Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives.
- jll29 5y agoThat's what the guys from the Internet Archive and CiteSeer also tend to say.
- turbinerneiter 5y agoIs this a joke I'm tired to understand?
- ketanmaheshwari 5y agoThis is not meant to be a joke.
- politician 5y agoIt sounds like you're proposing an improvement to RFC 2549 to reduce latency and packet loss.
- glitchc 5y agoOne could make a good security case for establishing ad-hoc point-to-point communications mechanisms.
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- WaltPurvis 5y agoWhat's the maximum altitude of these drones? It might help you get funding if you could pitch it as Actual Cloud Data.
- tejtm 5y agoSo it is like Sneakernet but with wings. A winged sneaker net if you will Name it after some mythological hand maiden to Athena and you can't go wrong.