This website uses cookies. Privacy Policy
WHN-MESH · v1.0
The protocol that carries a distress call from phone to phone when infrastructure fails — open for anyone to implement.
A distress network is only as useful as it is dense. A format spoken by one application saves fewer lives than one spoken by many. That is why we publish the protocol instead of keeping it.
A packet fits the Bluetooth advertising limit present even on old, inexpensive handsets. The phone in a disaster zone may not be a new one.
It works without cell towers, internet or power. A call hops from device to device until one of them reaches the internet.
Every call is authenticated. Fabricated distress calls cannot be injected, so rescue teams cannot be sent to empty addresses.
No raw user identifier travels over the air. A relaying phone cannot learn whose call it is carrying.
Disaster management agencies, humanitarian organisations and application developers. You can run your own registration authority for your own user base: the network is shared, the identities stay yours.
Version 1.0 is a draft published for public review. Packet origination, relay scheduling, storage and server-side verification are verified on real hardware; multi-device propagation testing is in progress. The service identifier (UUID) is not yet allocated by the Bluetooth SIG, and the document records this as an open issue.