Wireless Communications has been a hot topic this week and Ben Reynhart (who works at Mutant Labs) began giving us a lecture in Hertizan Space. There are known devices which are capable of transmitting and recieving signals such as electro-magnetic radiation.
We went to investigate how this kind of idea would work in the outside world, how could something like this transform the way we look at Stonehouse?
One of the groups favourited areas is Royal Williams Dockyard. It's an ideal place to investigate how we could convert electro-magnetic radiation into something visually and graphically representable.
From the data we have collected in our selected area of Stonehouse, we have begun using WiFi enabling equipment such as phones and laptops to find how many WiFi signals we can find. We found alot of conclusive results that people in this part of Stonehouse use the internet alot and have individual internet connections belonging to various ISP's (Internet Service Providers). The common ones such as SKY, BT, Virgin and the infamous uncommon ones such as MASSBREWUP and Googanies-hair (possibly mobile devices with bluetooth activated..). We also found an open network which was named Hpsetup which wasn't protected and had a strength of 2 bars, so it is relatively useable by all of the people that lived in this area (especially section 1).
Here is a rough representation of the map to come, it will basically display different strengths based on my laptops status along in the area we selected. The more bars, the stronger the signal. The example shows all of the strength 2's in the area which was the most common signal strength in the area.
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