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title: "Blog: Field Communication Notes — BosNets"
description: "Field notes from BosNets: how our products behave in real operations, and what we learn from exercises and events."
url: https://www.bosnets.com/en/blog/
lang: en
source: html
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# Blog

## News and field reports

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[26 August 20266 min readFour days at AFAD's drone search competitionWe were in Samsun from 17 to 20 August. Search and rescue teams from all 81 provinces looked for hidden objects by drone, and for four days we watched how those locations travelled from the field to the coordination centre. Read the post](/en/blog/afad-drone-search-competition-samsun)

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[8 July 20266 min readHybrid and bridge communicationWhat does it mean to work over the internet where there is coverage and over the devices’ own network where there is none? And how does one person inside coverage connect an entire team that is outside it? Read the post](/en/blog/hybrid-and-bridge-communication)

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[12 June 20266 min readWhat is a mesh network?A network where devices connect directly to each other instead of to a centre. How it differs from a mobile network, why it gets stronger as it gets busier, and where its limits are, explained with diagrams. Read the post](/en/blog/what-is-a-mesh-network)

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[1 May 20264 min readThe emergency button: one press, the whole team knowsIn field operations the worst case is not getting injured, it is being unable to tell anyone. What happens when the physical button on the device is pressed? Read the post](/en/blog/emergency-button)

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[24 April 20265 min readSee where your team is without asking "where are you?"How do you follow team positions in the field with no coverage? The team on a map, periodic location broadcasting, offline maps and routing. Read the post](/en/blog/live-location-tracking)

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[17 April 20266 min readA private, closed communication networkWhat end-to-end encryption actually means, what independence from outside infrastructure buys you, and how an organisation runs its own communication network. Read the post](/en/blog/private-closed-communication-network)

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[9 April 20265 min readHow to reach your team without a base stationHow do you set up team communication where the network has collapsed or coverage never existed? A chain that works in three steps. Read the post](/en/blog/direct-team-communication)

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[24 March 20267 min readWhat is BosNets? Communication that works when the network is downIn the February earthquakes, 2,800 of the 6,350 base stations in the region went out of service within seconds. Why does the network vanish exactly then, and what does BosNets put in its place? Read the post](/en/blog/what-is-bosnets)