Using Model Helicopters to Provide Wireless Access in Disaster Areas (Overclockers Club)

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A professor at Germany's Ilmenau University of Technology is working on a project to use 'quadcopters' to build self-assembling ad-hoc wireless networks in disaster areas where existing network infrastructure may have been destroyed. The helicopters are autonomous flying machines carrying VIA pico ITX computers with radio equipment. Equipped with satellite navigation, the machines can fly into ...

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