Texaskilt - Slashdot User

Comment Thanks Everyone! (Score 1) 200

by Texaskilt on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:39AM (#41222723) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles?

I'd like to thank everybody for their comments, good and bad, polite and well...not so polite. Some of y'all "got" what I was asking for, some didn't, and some went WAY overboard in assuming what such a network would be used for. It was quite interesting to see how far off the beaten path some of the posts got. I gained some interesting leads and direction from the posts that I'll be looking into. Thanks to my brothers and sisters in the Fire Service and EMS and thanks to my fellow amateur radio operators. Thanks to everyone else as well. I'd love to meet you and have either a beer or a coffee, but I'd rather not hat to meet you professionally! Stay safe all...

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network for Fire Department Vehicles

Submitted by Texaskilt on Friday August 31, 2012 @01:09PM

Texaskilt writes: I am looking to put together a mobile mesh network for my volunteer fire department and would like some recommendations from the Slashdot crowd.

Ideally, the network would consist of cheap wireless routers (Linksys WRT-type) mounted on each vehicle. From there, tablets or other wireless devices could connect to the router. When the vehicles are in the station, the routers would auto-connect to the WiFi network to receive calls for service and other updates. When out on a call, the router would form an ad-hoc network with other vehicles on the scene. If a vehicle came into range of an Internet "hotspot", it would notify other vehicles and become a gateway for the rest of the "ad-hoc" networked vehicles.

I've looked at Freifunk for this, but would like some other options. Recommendations please?

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