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Re: Ask: Direct sending and receiving data trought WiFi

#13

RFID has some of the significant properties you are looking for. I don't know if it has all of them because I've just about exhausted all my knowledge of RFID and don't know any details of the actual problem you are trying to solve. But RFID is deployed at scale and "everywhere." Probably because the technology doesn't depend on protocols developed for other uses (e.g. IP). Good luck.

RFID have small distance yes BT and RFID is ok but wifi im more popular and long working distance

Re: Ask: Direct sending and receiving data trought WiFi

#15
I think there is a defined wifi mesh standard, 802.11s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11s

I think it was used by the deployed OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project back in the 90s/early 2000s, which wanted to send them to areas with no internet.

If you can get such a network set up, you should be able to route IP packets over it as normal?

I think during the Hong Kong protests, they also used peer to peer smartphone meshes over either Wifi or Bluetooth (can't remember). Might be worth looking into?

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