Quote from: TooQik on June 11, 2016, 02:53:25 AM

Quote from: nickgogerty

Quote from: lfloorwalker

Hi all,

I had an amazing idea while looking at a bunch of pigeons. We are building data loggers that are solar powered that can connect to the solarcoin granting API. We demonstrated this one working last week in London at the Chain-of-things event.
There is an option as we build out to MVP, this is a good idea I think to add a "mesh networking chip" instead of an internet connection chip (e.g. Huawei dongle), or a case with both.

If we have mesh-networked solar powered solarcoin nodes, we are nearly organic. This means no single point of failure (on hardware layer) and no central internet or power needed and no single point of failure on software layer (blockchain).

What's people's thoughts?

Will investigate further.

Best,
-lfloorwalker

mesh architecture seems interesting for resilience redundancy architecture. then at any point a single SMS modem can act as connection point for the live blockchain.

I would be concerned about having a single point of failure within a mesh network with only a single connection point to the broader SolarCoin network. If you lose this single connection point the devices within the mesh would still have connectivity to each other and would effectively become an isolated blockchain. What would happen if the number of devices within this isolated network has the majority of peers when it rejoined the broader pool?

I would suggest focusing on building disruption tolerant networks (DTNs). These networks are more resilient and useful for mobile applications. So for example in theory a drone, a self driving truck, or dropped in a specific location where people can walk up to it such as an ATM like vending machine.

Of course these networks would not get very much in SLR but in my opinion SLR could benefit.