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Thai Institute Develops Wireless Communication Platform

The unstable climatic condition in Thailand has brought the Asian Institute in Bangkok to develop a state-of-the-art mobile wireless network that will help the country manage through harsh weather conditions, if such take place. The network can be used for communication during natural disasters or other emergency sceneries with similar characteristics. Most of the services today are based upon communication, and if no contact with authorities or emergency services can be formed a disaster zone has no way of getting assistance.

The new system was developed in collaboration with groups from Europe and Japan and is aimed at offering a solution in times where land-based communicational system fails. "What is available now cannot be used when infrastructure breaks down," said the project`s leader during the presentation on Friday. The concept of the system is pretty simple. A network of laptops is created by connection all of them to one central mobile satellite station. This way emergency services are able to use online communication and collaborate their rescue operations.

What makes the new system brilliantly efficient is that any laptop or mobile device that is connected to the wireless station can operate as a node of its own, and be used as a transmitter for other ?more remote- devices. This way, communication can be formed between distant sites that do not have any other ways of communicating. There are so many mobile devices in the world, and by enabling any one of them to become a transmit station without the need for additional hardware, the project makes it possible to communicate with anyone, anywhere, and under any conditions.