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Four days at AFAD's drone search competition
We 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.
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Hybrid and bridge communication
What 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?
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What 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.
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The emergency button: one press, the whole team knows
In 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?
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See 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.
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A private, closed communication network
What end-to-end encryption actually means, what independence from outside infrastructure buys you, and how an organisation runs its own communication network.
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How to reach your team without a base station
How do you set up team communication where the network has collapsed or coverage never existed? A chain that works in three steps.
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What is BosNets? Communication that works when the network is down
In 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?
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