August Deployment, Day 5

Deployment day ! Using the repeater placements we found yesterday we started installing the repeaters. Thanks to Erin Stacy, Michelle Gilmore, Maria Ayala and Madeline Castro, we deployed the 26 repeaters in a couple of hours ! Hard work, we pounded u-channels into the ground and attached the repeater poles…

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August Deployment, Day 4

Second testing day ! Unfortunately the LiDAR data we use is not precise enough to determine the density of the vegetation along a path. We realized that moving from a meter could make the percentage of delivered messages from 100-80% to 0-20%. Because our transmission tests are performed over different…

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August Deployment, Day 1

13 August 2016, Berkeley, California, USA. Today we started the preparation of the Southern Sierra deployment ! The Berkeley team already replace the dev We first adapted the map to handle multiple deployments as it was fixed on the PEACH one. We then added new SOL types for the system…

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