The offline network
Runs the day with no phone reception.
A rogaine runs well out of mobile range, where anything that needs the internet stops working. On the day, one device runs as the hub and makes its own network, and every phone joins it. Everyone is looking at the same live plan, with no reception at all.
The hub
Any device can be the hub.
It's usually the organiser's laptop, but it doesn't have to be. A phone can host the network just as well, so if there's no laptop at the start, someone's phone runs the day instead. The hub doesn't even need the plan to begin with. It fills up from whichever device already has it, and every other device joins and stays in step.
Before you leave
Load the event while you still have signal.
Before you drive out of range, open the event on the hub and it pulls the whole thing down from the cloud: the plan, the course, the water points, and everyone helping run it. Any phone that opens it while there's still signal gets its own full copy too. By the time you reach the start the event is spread across every device, and none of it needs the internet from there.
On the day
Everyone joins the hub, and the plan stays in step.
Where everyone connects
Every phone joins the hub over its own network. It relays changes between them as you work, and needs no internet or signal to do it.
Scan a code to join
Each phone points its camera at the hub's code and it's in. No accounts to set up in a paddock, and no addresses to type.
The same plan on every phone
Tick a job, log a water check, or mark a control back at base, and it shows up for everyone. Every phone is looking at the same plan as you work.
No single point of failure
The plan lives on every phone, not just the hub.
The hub runs the network, but it isn't the only copy of the plan. Every phone holds the whole thing, so if the hub goes flat nothing is lost. When any phone gets signal it catches the cloud up on what happened out here and pulls down anything new, then shares that with the hub and every other phone. A change made anywhere reaches everyone.
Why it matters
You need the plan most where there's no reception.
Water checks, safety drives, which controls are still out: this is the information the day actually turns on, and it's needed exactly where there's no signal. Keeping it on the hub at base and letting phones read it off the hub's own network means the crew reads the live plan straight off their phones in the field.
What you get
- No reception needed for anyone in the field to see or change the plan.
- Nothing to lose when a phone goes flat, since the hub holds it all.
- A full record waiting in the cloud the moment someone gets signal.
Want to see it on your event?
Click through the live demo now, or get in touch and we will set your association up.