Fresh Coverage
There has been some really encouraging coverage, this is definitely one of the best in details : New Cell Network Doesn’t Depend on Towers
Category Archives: Serval
LinuxSA Presentation
Tonight Dr Paul delivered a presentation to LinuxSA on the Serval Batphone. There were some amazing questions, and a great amount of interested. We are putting the video up this weekend on our shiny new YouTube channel – so watch this space! All of our videos, from the tests, media releases, and presentations are being […]
Code available!
The DNA source code is now available under GPLv2 at: http://code.google.com/p/serval-dna/ We are proud about our use of Open Source technology as a backbone to all our endeavours to help people globally in times of need – whether they be temporary, due to disaster, or more permanent issues, due to geographic issues, or socio economic constraints. We […]
Our Awesome supporter writes about us
The Awesome Foundation, like Flinders University, has been an incredibly enthusiastic supporter of ours since almost day 1 – and they have really helped us progress, in both practical and encouragement terms. They have done a lovely write up of us at their site. They also remind us of a remote presentation our own Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen […]
A video of our own…
The first of many to come:)
The ABC crew that filmed us…
…put us on their nightly news, and of all the stories and articles, this is the most satisfying, as I got to meet and chat with the reporter and cameraman. Both lovely guys:) The response to Serval has been nothing short of inspiring wonderful:) Thank you to everyone who has commented or enquired so far – and keep it […]
Levitation potential…
As we have been sorting through all the footage from Arkaroola, this photo seems to show me in a hover wheelchair…I wish!!!!
Starting to get noticed!
How exciting – people are really sitting up and taking notice:) CNET Crave Gadget Blog – Cell phone chats–in the Australian Outback? Telegraph UK (with an odd take in their headline, but we are ok with that!) – Australian researchers develop ‘mobile’ phone antenna – Telegraph.
Arkaroola Trials of Batphone
Hi everyone, and welcome to the first post from me! We have had some exciting times behind the scenes getting everything ready, and I am ready to start sharing some of the events with you. A team from Flinders University and the Village Telco project went to Arkaroola Sanctuary, a magnificentNational Park that is a […]
A word from Dr Paul
I would just like to say a few words about our incredibly successful field trial and technology demonstration last Friday. The demos involved three scenarios for rapid deployment of telephone networks; (i) disaster relief, (ii) search and rescue, and (iii) deploying networks in difficult terrain. The disaster relief scenario was based around providing blanked phone […]