A LoRa-based beacon concept for fast location awareness at large events and across remote ground — built on the same mesh thinking behind our radios.
At a festival site, on a ranch, or across open country, the hardest part is often simply knowing where — a precise location, relayed fast, in a place where the cell network is saturated or absent. Minutes spent locating are minutes that matter.
A compact LoRa/GPS beacon that pins a precise point and relays it over a private mesh — the kind that keeps working past the edge of cell coverage. Paired with a drone, it can be carried toward a location to extend awareness over ground that's hard to reach on foot.
A GPS fix pins a precise location the moment the beacon is active.
LoRa mesh carries that point across the site, independent of the cell network.
Flown to where it's needed, the beacon extends awareness over ground that's slow to cover otherwise.
The beacon is a natural extension of what Mesh With Texas already builds: simple, pre-configured LoRa hardware that works where other networks don't.
If location awareness on big or remote ground is something you deal with, we'd like to compare notes.