Sparrow Net

"A truely ubiquitous network to connect disaster victims with medical experts, information and communities; agnostic of device, location, connectivity, application/systems in use"

The challenge


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    Disaster victims need access to medical help and expertise
    Victims and medical teams on ground need expert expert medical advise, access to information related to symptons/medicines/precautions to ensure medical well-being
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    Communication is major obstacle between victims and help
    During disasters, there always are people (doctors, nurses, experts) around the world willing to help the victims. The key missing component is a medium to connect the HELP with those in NEED.
    For example - A doctor from USA has no way to help disaster victims in India
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    Existing media of communication face limitations during disaster
    Victims and responder have to worry about having accounts on these platforms, being 'connected' to each other, having access to these platforms (even when internet is down), having correct device to access the platforms, being able to share data securely in required format, and so on.
    Medical support communities that exist over existing communication/social platforms are siloed. For eg: Its impossible for a disaster victim to know there is a medical support group from London reachable through Whatsapp.
    At the same time, creating a new communication platform and asking all victims / responders to onboard it is impossible. It would add to confusion rather than helping the victims

The Solution - Summary

"Uber for medical and psychological support during disasters"
Bring help from all over the world at finger-tips of disaster victims

The Solution - Summary

"Uber for medical and psychological support during disasters"
Bring help from all over the world at finger-tips of disaster victims
Disaster victims and medical workers
Can reach medical expertise through any available online / offline communication interfaces (Read more)
Medical experts / Community members
Can signup from anywhere in the world through any available social medial platform or messaging application (Whatsapp, FB Messenger, SMS, WeChat, Hangouts, etc). SparrowNet will verify the credentials of the individual who signed-up and determine expertise level and field.
How does SparrowNet connect them?
SparrowNet takes messages coming from disaster victims, recognizes the type of help the victim needs and matches the victim to relevant medical experts.
The victim need not be on the same communication platform or in vicinity of the medical expert.
Once a medical expert is matched, messages and media is transferred in an end-to-end secure manner. Conversations are securely stored on Cloud to assure accountability of medical experts.
Disaster victims and medical workers
Can reach medical expertise through any available online / offline communication interfaces (Read more)
Medical experts / Community members
Can signup from anywhere in the world through any available social medial platform or messaging application (Whatsapp, FB Messenger, SMS, WeChat, Hangouts, etc). SparrowNet will verify the credentials of the individual who signed-up and determine expertise level and field.
How does SparrowNet connect them?
SparrowNet takes messages coming from disaster victims, recognizes the type of help the victim needs and matches the victim to relevant medical experts.
The victim need not be on the same communication platform or in vicinity of the medical expert.
Once a medical expert is matched, messages and media is transferred in an end-to-end secure manner. Conversations are securely stored on Cloud to assure accountability of medical experts.

The Solution - Description

Disaster victims and medical workers

The Solution - Description

Disaster victims and medical workers
1. Communication when traditional network is available
Talk to a medical expert anytime anywhere through chat interface accessible through ANY MAJOR CHAT APP

Reach out to sparrow through platform of your choice. Sparrow Net routes you to available experts who can answer your queries.
Experts are allocated intelligently based on location (city, country), language, type of query, etc.

You need not be connected to the medical expert before-hand and the medical expert need not be using same platform as you.
Sparrow Net is end-to-end secure and you can choose to be anonymous!
Sharing media is supported! (If the messaging platform supports media sharing)
1. Communication when traditional network is available
Talk to a medical expert anytime anywhere through chat interface accessible through ANY MAJOR CHAT APP

Reach out to sparrow through platform of your choice. Sparrow Net routes you to available experts who can answer your queries.
Experts are allocated intelligently based on location (city, country), language, type of query, etc.

You need not be connected to the medical expert before-hand and the medical expert need not be using same platform as you.
Sparrow Net is end-to-end secure and you can choose to be anonymous!
Sharing media is supported! (If the messaging platform supports media sharing)
2. Communication when traditional network is un-available
Sparrow Net ensures connectivity even when traditional networks are unavailable through a combination of two 'Mesh networks'
2. Communication when traditional network is un-available
Sparrow Net ensures connectivity even when traditional networks are unavailable through a combination of two 'Mesh networks'
LoRa based mesh - Sparrow platform favorite Project owl
(Visit websitecall_made)
Project Owl's clusterduck network enables communication during disasters using a LoRa based mesh. Disaster victims can connect to Wifi available through 'ducks' to send information to the world.
SparrowMesh also connects to ducks via BLE to establish link with internet.

We modified Clusterduck to achieve 2 way communication in order to make Sparrow Net accessible through project owl. Ducks (CLusterduck) can easily be made compatible with Sparrow Net by adding few lines of code.
LoRa based mesh - Sparrow platform favorite Project owl
(Visit websitecall_made)
Project Owl's clusterduck network enables communication during disasters using a LoRa based mesh. Disaster victims can connect to Wifi available through 'ducks' to send information to the world.
SparrowMesh also connects to ducks via BLE to establish link with internet.

We modified Clusterduck to achieve 2 way communication in order to make Sparrow Net accessible through project owl. Ducks (CLusterduck) can easily be made compatible with Sparrow Net by adding few lines of code.
SparrowMesh - True Democratized network
SparrowMesh is a smartphone based P2P Ah-hoc mesh network based on smartphones.
It uses Wifi, Bluetooth, BLE, Sound (Every available communication radio) on smartphones for transferring data.

Sparrow Mesh enables Mobility - First responders can go to remote locations, sync messages from the community on Sparrow Mesh nodes on their smartphone, and then sync these messages with internet when their phones get online.

Though the primary motive of SparrowMesh is to connect disaster victims to Sparrow Net (Internet), sparrowMesh also enables communication between local-communities.

Download the Sparrow App and be a part of Sparrow Mesh!

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SparrowMesh - Truely Democratized network
SparrowMesh is a smartphone based P2P Ah-hoc mesh network based on smartphones.
It uses Wifi, Bluetooth, BLE, Sound (Every available communication radio) on smartphones for transferring data.

Sparrow Mesh enables Mobility - First responders can go to remote locations, sync messages from the community on Sparrow Mesh nodes on their smartphone, and then sync these messages with internet when their phones get online.

Though the primary motive of SparrowMesh is to connect disaster victims to Sparrow Net (Internet), sparrowMesh also enables communication between local-communities.

Download the Sparrow App and be a part of Sparrow Mesh!

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"Reach out to community around you - No internet or Clusterduck connectivity needed"
SparrowMesh is built for offline first communication. Nodes in Sparrow Net (Smartphones i.e users) can move around, carrying data with them.
Disaster victims can communicate with community around them, and broadcast updates regarding their health and well-being over Sparrow Net.

"Send updates to the world even without internet"
Tracking family members is often a major challenge in non-internet situations. SparrowMesh enables communications where traditional networks and fixed mesh networks (Like Project Owl) fail.

"Sparrow Net through it's ubiquitous network coverage makes sure that families always stay in touch!"
"Reach out to community around you - No internet or Clusterduck connectivity needed"
SparrowMesh is built for offline first communication. Nodes in Sparrow Net (Smartphones i.e users) can move around, carrying data with them.
Disaster victims can communicate with community around them, and broadcast updates regarding their health and well-being over Sparrow Net.

"Send updates to the world even without internet"
Tracking family members is often a major challenge in non-internet situations. SparrowMesh enables communications where traditional networks and fixed mesh networks (Like Project Owl) fail.

"Sparrow Net through it's ubiquitous network coverage makes sure that families always stay in touch!"

Offline connectivity options


Sparrow app installed
Use Sparrow App to reach global Sparrow Net community and local community present on SparrowMesh.

Every phone with Sparrow App is a node in SparrowMesh.
Messages sent through Sparrow App are sent over the SparrowMesh till they reach a node connected to internet or duck.
Sparrow app not installed
 Devices not having Sparrow App can connect to Sparrow Net by access Wifi endpoints made available through ducks and nodes in SparrowMesh.

All ducks and smartphones with Sparrow app create a Wifi network and deliver Sparrow Net web-applets through this Wifi network.
Other devices can access these apps, and data is transferred through SparrowMesh / Clusterduck.

Offline mesh network range

Sparrow Offline Network is combination of LoRa mesh (Clusterduck) and Smartphone based P2P mesh (SparrowMesh).

As we are following Project Owl's LoRa mesh implementation standards, our LoRa network specifications are exactly same as Clusterduck. Clusterduck (LoRa mesh - Wifi connectivity) specifications can be found here.
SparrowMesh is a Adhoc Mesh - Every node has multiple degrees of freedom. This brings in unique benefits of Adhoc networks to SparrowMesh.
SparrowMesh allows a maximum distance of 400m (Wifi), 150m (Bluetooth), 50m (Sound) between 2 nodes.

SparrowMesh implementation is based on AODV protocol.
We conducted detailed research to study and compare the capabilities of AODV with other equivalent protocols.

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Medical experts, first responders, support communities

"Helping disaster victims is as easy as replying to a Whatsapp message"
4 Easy steps to use SparrorNet:
1. Send a message to Sparrow through messaging platform of choice
2. Answer some simple questions about your field of expertise
3. Upload documents and get verified
4. Wait for disaster victim's questions and queries to reach you!

Once registered, Sparrow maintains a pool of available experts. Once a request comes from disaster victims, Sparrow matches the victim with an expert from this pool
The matching process is intelligent - Sparrow detects the victim request's nature, location and severity and matches a expert accordingly.

4 Easy steps to use SparrorNet:
1. Send a message to Sparrow through messaging platform of choice
2. Answer some simple questions about your field of expertise
3. Upload documents and get verified
4. Wait for disaster victim's questions and queries to reach you!

Once registered, Sparrow maintains a pool of available experts. Once a request comes from disaster victims, Sparrow matches the victim with an expert from this pool
The matching process is intelligent - Sparrow detects the victim request's nature, location and severity and matches a expert accordingly.

Though Sparrow Net is built for medical / psychological well-being, it has potential to grow beyond. Sparrow Net could be one stop solution for all needs of an individual for non-disasters situations as well.
Sparrow Net unifies all of world's communication into one system. Possibilities are infinite - We can make all emergency services accessible through SparrowNet, we can find any kind of help needed by a individual.

SparrowMesh - Clusterduck duo can completely replace traditional communication. We can even build a block-chain system over the mesh to account for nodes helping message transfer, while diving crypto-tokens to these nodes in exchange.
Sparrow Net could be the 'Search engine for expertise' or the 'Uber for all expert advice based professions'