LoRa Mesh

In testing

Stationary Chrome PWAs reconcile their data directly with mobile devices over Bluetooth LE — peer-to-peer over CRDTs (OrbitDB and Yjs among them), with no servers, no accounts and no passwords.

In planning

The signalling courier over the mesh, as thought through in design issue #161 — two scenarios. A customer enters the studio carrying phone and radio node, and the unstaffed front desk answers automatically. Or a customer books an appointment remotely: connection set-up travels by radio rather than through a third-party signalling server. No metadata accrues with any SaaS operator — and the booking is binding regardless.

The next stage

Branch devices reconciling their data redundantly over WebRTC and over a LoRa mesh — whichever channel is available carries the traffic.

Fields of application

• Data-minimal booking systems without tracking — for fitness and yoga studios.
• Multi-site booking systems for coworking operators.
• P2P logistics: a consignment travels from Hamburg to Munich with registered commuters already covering the route, by rail or by car. Across several handovers, each station sees only the meeting point and the handover time; the recipient's address goes to the final one alone — and every station takes a share of the carriage fee.
• P2P argument mapping for parties, associations and civil-rights movements — structured deliberation without a central platform.

Technical foundations

• webrtc-qr — the library: two devices connect by scanning a code — no signalling server.
• qr01 — the tutorial chapter for this: a todo list moves from phone to phone by scanning a code — over a Wi-Fi hotspot, with no internet involved.
• ablage — a P2P dropbox between devices and people, with no servers and no accounts — over webrtc-qr and libp2p.
• yogasuci — an emerging showcase: class bookings without intermediaries, metadata or tracking.