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Some scary applications come to mind. For instance, sprinkling a bunch of nodes + sensors in hostile territory should allow for gathering intelligence, guiding
by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Some scary applications come to mind.
For instance, sprinkling a bunch of nodes + sensors in hostile territory should allow for gathering intelligence, guiding drones, setting of fuses...
- pohl 5mo ago...but also resistance in the context of authoritarian capture.
- ungreased0675 5mo agoKeep in mind that this is a very low bandwidth, high latency mesh network. Great for sending short text messages, absolutely terrible for guiding drones.
- thadt 5mo agoThat’s not necessarily the case. It depends on how autonomous your drone is and what you need to guide it to do…
- willis936 5mo agoLine of sight needed, trivial to jam, power hungry, trivial to fox hunt. These are not boogyman devices. The real boogyman devices are the ones in space. Big militaries don't need things on earth to do any of the things you listed and way more.
- barnabee 5mo agoExpressLRS[0] (drone / radio control protocol) also uses LoRa, I wonder if anyone's tried mesh networking it… [0] https://www.expresslrs.org/ https://www.expresslrs.org/
- alterom 5mo agoRussia and Ukraine both use meshed drone control networks now, dunno which tech stack, but likely this or similar.
- repelsteeltje 5mo agoYeah. Actuality I was thinking about less sophisticated adversaries. So called "failed states", nonstate groups, organized crime, amateur surveillance, corporate espionage, sabotage.
- alterom 5mo agoMesh networks are already used by both Russia and Ukraine to guide drones. With the obvious solution of putting mesh nodes on the drones, foregoing the scattering part. For everyone else, IoT is already there. And good old paying people to do things (the supply of dumb people never gets depleted).