OpenMANET is a low-power, long-range mesh network for off-grid comms leveraging WiFi HaLow (8011.ah)
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The current implementation mostly uses Raspberry Pi SBCs and Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) chips from
@MorseMicro. Like LoRa-based protocols such as Meshtastic and MeshCore, OpenMANET targets search and rescue, disaster response, airsoft events, and other off-grid situations, but delivers higher bandwidth at the cost of higher power consumption and more complex hardware.
Other benefits include full IP networking, built-in PTT voice, RTSP streaming from a camera, and ATAK integration. The OpenMANET firmware is based on OpenWrt, and the OpenMANETd daemon, written in Go, provides mesh management, an embedded React web interface, and a gRPC/HTTP API.