For a full overview, you need this page.
Currently implemented features include:
- Free voice calls between Serval Mesh-enabled phones, using ordinary telephone numbers, in the absence of any supporting infrastructure. Successfully tested in the remote Australian outback, (video here), and underground (video here).
- MeshMS, our free mesh-based SMS. With Serval’s Rhizome store-and-forward technology we have delivered messages over 10,000km (about 6,000 miles) between Africa and Australia, without reliance on any cellular network, internet or other telecommunications infrastructure.
Features under development include:
- Serval Rhizome, our totally distributed mesh-based file and data distribution platform. This can be used to deliver information, maps, Serval software updates and many other services in the total absence of supporting infrastructure, including during the acute phase of a natural disaster.
- Serval Maps, our mesh-based mapping application that can operate in the total absence of supporting infrastructure, and can share maps between phones on the mesh to avoid the need for an internet connection when retrieving new maps.
- Serval Morse, our distributed, infrastructure-independent micro-blogging service, that let’s you post morsels (similar to tweets) on the mesh, and optionally pin them to locations using Serval Maps.
- A simple API that lets you make use of any Serval service from within your own applications.
