WiFi doesn't fare any better than BLE under rubble unfortunately, but WiFi is going to be a useful technology to build disaster response tools in general
Patrick Collison (of stripe fame) put together a collection of historical ambitious projects that got done quickly, look into the biographies of people mentioned in there. https://patrickcollison.com/fast
If someone is looking for something similar with less hassle, let me plug my friend’s product :) https://www.inklay.app/
I’ve been using it for the better part of a year now to show the weather, a dashboard and some comics and am very happy with it, it just works and looks great too
I know it may be at odds with "less hassle", but any thoughts/plans on making it compatible with Home Assistant? Would be nice to have an option to show an HA dashboard there.
SpaceX has no qualms launching competitors constellations, it has done so with Kupier already.
Sure the prices might not be quite as good as what Starlink gets but definitely comparable in big-O notation (especially compared to other launch providers).