Smart Web Interaction Model with You (swimy) offline meet-up
For the first time in four years, I spoke in front of a live audience. I delivered a short presentation about my explorations over the past several years with LoRa and IoT. I was grateful for the perceptive comments, engaging questions and frequent interruptions from everyone who attended and to our hosts, Tomoko, Nobuyuki, and their dogs Hanma and Tama for preparing a delectable feast of whole deep fried chicken, a big salad and other delectables with free flowing wine.
date
Monday, October 23, 2023 3pm - 5:30pm
title
Mountaintop digital radio network for local citizen use
place
Singulier (Google Maps) 2-24-1 Shiba-koen Minato-ku Tokyo
description
Over the last couple years I’ve been working on a project to deploy sensors around the community where I live in order to accomplish tasks like monitoring environment (temperature, rain, wind, water levels, etc.) and location (for hiking, walking, vehicle tracking etc.) utilizing free radio spectrum available with LoRa devices and a free software project called Meshtastic. I’ve been working on this project through involvement in a local research group led by NICT and Shinshu University’s School of Engineering in neighboring Chikuma City.
This talk provides some background about the research project, LoRa and the open source project Meshtastic as well as some detail of my early experiments deploying edge nodes in the mountains around town and using them to start building a small network of stationery and mobile sensors.
In the future I aspire to develop applications for inexpensive nodes that will be useful for local citizens, farmers and businesses.
more information
The full slide deck can be found here: https://bit.ly/swimy23e
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