under evaluation
LoRa Mesh
We are testing LoRa mesh for commercial open-source applications — applications that keep working in parallel when the internet or the power grid fails, and in places that have neither.
For groups and communities that want to shrink their metadata footprint, a clear game-changer.
What we are testing right now
Stationary Chrome PWAs with Bluetooth LE that reconcile their data with mobile devices — peer to peer, over CRDTs (e.g. OrbitDB, Yjs), with no servers, no accounts and no passwords.
Where it would be used
- Booking systems with little to no metadata and no tracking, for fitness and yoga studios.
- Booking systems for coworking spaces with several locations.
- P2P logistics: Alice in Hamburg sends a parcel to Munich — the system finds registered travellers who already cover the route, daily or spontaneously, by train or by car. Across several hops each hop only sees the meeting point and the handover time, only the last one the recipient's address — and every hop earns a reward.
- P2P argument mapping for parties and civil-rights movements — democracy 2.0.
Conceivable, not built yet
Devices in branches that reconcile their data over WebRTC and over a LoRa mesh — whichever of the two happens to be there.
Work on this with us
We are looking for tech partners, testers, investors and pilot customers — for applications that also work without the internet: as a fallback, exclusively offline, or as an option for people who would rather keep their data to themselves, with no metadata and no tracking. Booking systems for fitness and yoga studios or coworking spaces, for example.