Fairwaves base stations are designed from the outset with harsh environments in mind, benefiting from industrial-grade components and features selected to ensure that they still work reliably at extreme temperatures, and come rain or shine. This is vital when deployed as part of solutions that offer zero maintenance, with remote configuration and support. In a
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Mobile World Congress 2015 Demo
In just a few weeks it will once again be time for Mobile World Congress, and this year Fairwaves are excited to announce that they will be hosting a live demo in partnership with Canonical, Metaswitch, Telestax and Truphone. The demo will take place at the Canonical booth in Hall 8.1 at App Planet Stand
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Wired article and the VoIP over WiFi question
Yesterday Wired published a great article by Lizzie Wade, entitled Where Cellular Networks Don’t Exist, People Are Building Their Own, on the groundbreaking work being done by Rhizomatica to bring community-owned cellular networks to rural Mexico. This is highly recommended reading, even for those who are already familiar with Rhizomatica’s work and open source mobile networks.
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First UmSITE-TM3 Sample Passes Leak Test
As anyone who has done design for manufacture and harsh environments will tell you, it’s one thing to have hardware which works in a lab environment, and quite another to design something which will work day in, day out, in the dry heat of summer and on exceptionally damp winter days. Given that the UmSITE-TM3
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The $25 cell phone connected device saves lives
The uMED, or Universal Mobile Electrochemical Detector to use its full name, is a compact device that is able to test blood for disease and water for toxic pollutants, before sending data over a mobile connection for remote analysis by a doctor, or for processing by a monitoring service. A recent article in Popular Mechanics
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