Meshkit

112 点作者 jdowner超过 7 年前

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This is very unfortunate piece of technology. And I'm not saying this ironically.This is the type of technology that will benefit the most number of people if open sourced, but despite what these guys call themselves ("Open"garden), it's not open at all.I'm guessing it's because they've already raised near $13MM <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/open-garden" rel="nofollow">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/open-garden</a> and they can't afford to just let go of the tech (I'm guessing they're probably hoping at this point to get acquired by some large company for their tech, but not even sure if they have a patent-worthy tech since I'm guessing they use iOS and Android API underneath) If they didn't raise this much money they could have made the decision to just open it up if they really think this will change the world.As much as I hate ICOs, I would like to see this type of tech being open sourced and the creators trying to make money with open protocols rather than getting stuck in the old mindset of trying to make money by petty licensing in the age of open source.Also, note that there's a better alternative if you're trying to implement near field P2P AND you're OK with using someone else's proprietary tech <a href="https://developers.google.com/nearby/connections/overview" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/nearby/connections/overview</a>I looked into this field a while ago and found that there's nothing out there that's completely open. For a genre of technology that claims to liberate communication, it's super ironic how it's the opposite.

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stupidcar超过 7 年前

Nice idea, but despite the "Open" in the name of the company, this is all based on a proprietary protocol. The internet has done pretty well so far by being based on open protocols and standards. I don't think it's a good idea to change that.

westbywest超过 7 年前

Yikes, their case study showing a map with pinpoints for DNC protestors in Philadelphia is an alarming illustration of the capacity for these peer-to-peer comms apps to be abused. I wonder if the FireChat participants at the time were aware of the location tracking. <a href="https://www.opengarden.com/case-studies.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.opengarden.com/case-studies.html</a>

aw3c2超过 7 年前

Does not seem like a free and open standard so my tab was closed in seconds.

mlaretallack超过 7 年前

Sounds a bit like <a href="http://www.servalproject.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.servalproject.org</a>

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shortoncash超过 7 年前

Does this allow iOS and Android to talk to each other over the mesh without reaching into the cloud? It says iOS and Android, but it doesn't seem to say -between- iOS and Android.

solnyshok超过 7 年前

is there any (sdr) usb radio that could be connected to android phone via usb-on-the-go to reach devices within 1+ mile on unlicensed bands? to be used by this or other open source mesh implementation, like <a href="http://servalproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://servalproject.org/</a>

jewel超过 7 年前

Something like this would work great in an urban environment if enough apps used it. For non-urban environments the wifi range becomes a limiting factor. I'm hoping that LTE Direct becomes a thing, since it has a much higher range.Kind of a separate idea, but if the hardware ever became cheap enough, it'd be great if the charger that shipped with these "LTE Direct" phones also included an LTE chip so that it could participate in the mesh. It would be great for disasters and also for overloaded networkThat way you'd have a decent chance in a suburb to be able to have a no-data-plan-necessary mesh network for devices of preteens or other minor uses where paying for a data plan is too expensive. For example, a data connection for your entertainment system in your car.In order to connect such a mesh to the Internet without having to worry about being the origin of someone else's traffic, the base stations would connect over wifi to their home access point. All traffic would be relayed over the Internet to the user's own base station, which would then send it to the destination. That way the mesh doesn't have to have a lot of traffic but someone can connect to the mesh without becoming the point of origin for potentially malicious traffic. It also would reduce the load on the mesh since traffic would only travel one or two hops.

dhat超过 7 年前

Something similar is accomplished with <a href="http://thaliproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://thaliproject.org/</a>

__andK超过 7 年前

Very interesting - we've been looking at something very similar (though less extensive) for bridging between BLE end devices and our cloud. It'd be interesting to see what it'd take to get ble devices integrated and on the mesh (battery requirements/mem requirements).Right now we're just forwarding beacon packets to our database servers - but this seems to provide a back/forth that'd be very useful (command/control & ota updates)Difficult to say without more detailed docs

jtanderson超过 7 年前

I think this is a really cool idea.Is there a way for one to limit the amount of data that could go through your device so that your data caps don't suffer from sending too much of somebody else's data?Edit: I see the "User control" feature, but it's not too specific about what exactly publishing and subscribing means for you vs strangers on the same mesh.

inopinatus超过 7 年前

I contacted Open Garden, interested to develop a product based on their purported architecture that would be a useful in-the-field extension of my established SaaS product.The website indicates they see themselves as a solution vendor for specific verticals. My application isn’t in the use cases on their list.I did not hear back.So much for MeshKit.

xoail超过 7 年前

I am more excited about this project <a href="https://github.com/AntonTheDev/ExtendaBLE" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AntonTheDev/ExtendaBLE</a>Disclaimer: Created by one of my co-workers.

mpolichette超过 7 年前

I like this idea. I keep hoping that a solution with peer to peer networking can help us overcome the problems we have with ISPs owning and controlling all of our access to the internet.

beobab超过 7 年前

I want to see this working. I want to try it out myself. Sadly, I'm not part of a multi-million customer company, so I don't know if I am the demographic they are looking for.

louismerlin超过 7 年前

If you like the concept, check out <a href="http://ipfs.io" rel="nofollow">http://ipfs.io</a>, great team & concept

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