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163 points nizarmah | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.2s | source

A couple of months ago, I built this app to help identify people stuck under rubble.

First responders have awesome tools. But in tough situations, even common folks need to help.

After what happened in Myanmar, we need something like this that works properly.

It has only been tested in controlled environments. It can also be improved; I know BLE is not _that_ effective under rubble.

If you have any feedback or can contribute, don't hold back.

1. axegon_ ◴[] No.43555889[source]

There is one thing that could make this insanely valuable. The bad news is that this thing is outside your control: No phone that I know of ships with a LoRa chip. Though to be fair, the only reason why LoRa (and by extension LoRaWAN and Meshtastic) are reliable and robust is precisely because they are not common at all.