I bet! I can imagine festivals being a good disaster simulation.
Meshtastic appears to use a simple flooding algorithm which is appropriate to what I understand to be the application - a small group of outdoorspeople keeping tabs on each other with short messages. One of my takeaways from a similar project I worked on in a past life was that flooding works well for use cases like that and just about anything more sophisticated is a pretty serious research project. BATMAN etc looks like fun to experiment with.
> what I understand to be the application - a small group of outdoorspeople keeping tabs on each other with short messages.
One really neat thing (in my opinion) about Meshtastic, it that it has support for GPS location in it's message scheme, so GPS equipped devices (or devices paired to phones with GPS on) can see where other mesh members are relative to them. This is really cool in the festival-type use case. Being able to easily see where your crew is whenever you want is great.
Meshtastic appears to use a simple flooding algorithm which is appropriate to what I understand to be the application - a small group of outdoorspeople keeping tabs on each other with short messages. One of my takeaways from a similar project I worked on in a past life was that flooding works well for use cases like that and just about anything more sophisticated is a pretty serious research project. BATMAN etc looks like fun to experiment with.