Can anyone recommend a wireless mesh vendor (and associated brackets and antennas) that would undergo extreme weather conditions?
A really good friend from university works in a hurricane research group and is looking wireless communication devices that they can put on top of these 30m ad hoc mobile research towers that they place in the middle of hurricanes for monitoring. He told me the distances that they want to get (1+ mi), and I told him that from a link budget perspective, this was a piece of cake on 2.4/5.8 Wi-Fi bands, and as long as he could be assured that the radio and the radio accessories could stay on the mobile unit and have a good source of power, we'd most likely be okay (these mobile units apparently have great backup batteries). Right now, they're looking at cellular coverage, but the distances that they want to do aren't that far, and they like the idea of building a backbone in these emergency situations which might also be used to converge other services on, particularly when the cellular network is unstable in hurricane environments. Any help or pointers on this would be greatly appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
