Auto-BAHN
Welcome to the Auto-BAHN project. Intended to provide smart-phone users with a method to quickly communicate with others during a natural or manmade disaster when telecommunication systems are down.
This project’s ultimate goal is to push smart phone manufacturers to implement Auto-BAHN (or their own version) onto every device they produce, so that citizens across the world can rapidly connect to emergency services, family members, or others during times of dire need.
We have the following smart phone applications available for download:
For the Android phone: http://hackerdemia.com/auto-BAHN/android/current/autobahn.apk
For the iPhone: Not yet available
You can send email regarding this project to:
auto-BAHN@hackerdemia.com
(Regarding the posts about the source file, I will be placing it on Github soon – the project is open source, and that will include the source code as well.)
Will this app be released in the Android Market soon? I’d like to install it but don’t want to turn off the app install protection from other sources than the Market.
Future of the internet the FREENET!
Great concept. Would love to help out on this.
Good work! Are you able to let me know when an Iphone version is available please?
Thanks
Please notify me when the iPhone version is available. Very excited by this product.
This is awesome! Wish I’d thought of it!
Let me know when you have it available for the iPhone. Somehow, get it on the App Store for this is really really useful in the back roads of Africa and the Far East where I currently live.
Very very good!
Can this principle be extended to open 802.11 networks, or by utilising WiFi Direct, so that laptops and base stations can participate in the message passing?
If you really want to get smart phone manufacturers and other developers to support this project, the source code behind this technique and Anrdoid app should be published as open source and under the terms of an open non-restricted licence.
However, not just because pushing this project to sucess, but also of humanity reasons and the intention of this project to help people in emergency and catastrophes!
Are you going to release the protocol?
I’m at work and found a link to your site on a techrepublic article about defcon 19. This project is a very interesting idea, the concern I have has to do with the potential for mal-ware spread. When I used to run Windows and when I used to use peer 2 peer, I often had to rebuild my windows machine. I know that droid and iphone malware development are on the rise (given their rise in use and the level of market saturation) so I’m curious if Auto-BAHN has any built in capacity to prevent malware spread or if it is a wide open ad-hoc type of network?
I see links on the right of this page and went to search out an answer to my question but am at work at all the sites are blocked by my company.
thanks, Mike
I suggest to make the project open source to encourage people to use it.
hi when can i get a blackberry apps? tq
Hey, wondering if this open source code? I have a thought about using it for commercial purposes in another form.
Mike
i think this has a lot of useful potential. Making a phone network using just phones is brilliant. the only thing i’m a bit confused on is how exactly you know who’s within range to send texts to and such.
Yeah, go on with this amazing project….
There is not much guidance or detail here is there? I don’t know what the software can do or what your plans are beyond what I read on the BBC, but things I’d like to see are:
Source and full details of the protocol so others can port it. Why not also laptop and desktop OSs?
Ideas about how people may use it all the time, when the sky has fallen in it’s a bit too late to find
you don’t quite know how it works and nobody else has it anyway
Tunneling via the net if some nodes are still connected.
Should do it for Windows and Linux too.
I have been thinking about using ad-hoc networking to allow text messaging to flow between devices and like the sound of this.
I agree that open source would be of great benefit.
As for who is in range I would think the fixed or less mobile devices (phones on charge) could act like DNS but just broadcasting the MAC of devices in range so if you know the mac of the device you could send a twitter like message @MAC.
May be no good for quick messaging unless both devices are only a few links away but if you are just saying Hi or “I just had a coffee LOL” who cares about speed.
Mike
any chance, in future, to work with WinMo ?
thank you
I’m really interested in bridging this with 1.) a twitter account 2.) a website 3.) APRS on Ham Radio.
If we got all these systems “talking”, it’d massively de-duplicate comms efforts in emergency situations. Ham Radio already has great stuff for this, and it’d be sweet to provide some software that would allow someone to “merge” all those systems.
Bring this into China, and the Internet great wall will be a great joke.
I think the work is good, but can you please tell me where the sources are?
Thanks.
Harish