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I've been fooling around with Meshtastic for a couple years and haven't come up with a real world use for it yet, other than scenarios like you mentioned.
What would be really cool is if cell phone makers could incorporate a mesh into their phones as a local public channel when the tower goes out. It would probably just be used by drug dealers or something, but it's the only cool and functional idea I can come up with.
If they can't charge an admittance fee or a per message fee, they won't implement it. It goes against their business model.
But we can dream.
Controlling home automation remotely without any internet access.
Tracking dogs, people or vehicles - again with no internet.
I don't see how you could get enough reliability to do either from any distance.
It all depends on the environment and the amount of nodes. I’m not exactly controlling Fort Knox here so 100% reliability isn’t a big point
It’s still cool to be at the store 2-3km away and get a notification that the fridge door is open, via a completely independent network 😀
I get the exact same notification via the internet, but it’s not as cool