jtk Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 (edited) This might be a crazy idea but I am wondering if anyone thought about this. Pagers are almost extinct nowadays but pagers services still available (as long as doctors are around). Wifi/LTE/3G/4G have many advantage over a pager service but a pager service is cheap, reliable, and signal travels far more distance. So I am wondering if anyone thought about sending data though paging service? To be clear, I am not looking send big data, maybe for sending small data, (like pinging or beacon system). Any thought or information? I think this might be a interesting project. Edited October 15, 2014 by jtk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karit Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 One thing to consider is the the Pager Network is clear text, so you would have to do encryption at the application level You can transmit small pieces of data/beacons. And there are software libraries and pagers that can hook into computers. Pagers do have awesome coverage but remember pagers a single broadcast and if the receiver is out of range it will never see that page. It is simplex the receivers have no method to talk back or acknowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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