A Historical Twist on Long-Range Wireless: Building a 103 km Multi-Hop Network Replicating Claude Chappe’s Telegraph

A Historical Twist on Long-Range Wireless: Building a 103 km Multi-Hop Network Replicating Claude Chappe’s Telegraph

In 1794, French Engineer Claude Chappe coordinated the deployment of a network of dozens of optical semaphores. These formed “strings” that were hundreds of kilometers long, allowing for nationwide telegraphy. The Chappe telegraph inspired future developments of long-range telecommunications using e...

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Main Authors: Mina Rady, Jonathan Muñoz, Razanne Abu-Aisheh, Mališa Vučinić, José Astorga Tobar, Alfonso Cortes, Quentin Lampin, Dominique Barthel, Thomas Watteyne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
LPWANs
industrial Internet of Things
mesh networks
wide area networks
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/19/7586

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