SmartMesh: Connect the world and make network ubiquitous
For an emerging technology, people often underestimate its development and impact in the next decade. When the new concepts, such as Mesh network, The Internet of Everything(IoE) and SmartMesh have just been brought up for discussion, do people clearly understand what they mean?
Mesh Network is an ad hoc network to transmit data and control instructions between nodes via dynamic routing. For instance, the Peer to Peer (P2P) direct connection between multiple routers can form a mesh like network, in which each router plays as a node. This mesh network can maintain the integrity of connections between nodes. Even when a few nodes fail in the network topology, the mesh architecture allows the hopping from node to node to form new routes through which the message could be delivered to the final destination.
At present, the development of the Internet industry has entered the bottleneck stage. In remote mountainous areas, rainforests and deserts, there are still billions of people who can’t boast reliable and regular Internet connection, they are unable enjoy the convenience brought by the Internet. However, Mesh network can make up for this gap. Mesh network will definitely make a great deal in the marginal region of the Internet as it’s along the trend of future network development.
Development of New Underlying Protocol
The implementation of Mesh network needs to be supported by a new underlying protocol, while the SmartMesh protocol is targeting at this. SmartMesh is a blockchain-based functional layer protocol for Mesh network that allows devices such as smartphones, vehicle instrumentation, and other devices to connect to each other without the Internet. SmartMesh has built-in blockchain light nodes and extends Raiden network protocol for Off-Internet micro-payment of tokens. Motivated by blockchain tokens, SmartMesh can self-organize to create a resilient, decentralized, self-healing Mesh network that offers higher near-field communication speed and bandwidth than the Internet and it will be generally free. It is possible to achieve a network parallel to the existing Internet with the increasing coverage of the Mesh network.
The premise of the wide coverage of Mesh network is to have a large number of stable Mesh network nodes. In this case, the MeshBox project invested and hatched by SmartMesh aims to achieve this functionality. MeshBox is a box-like hardware developed base on SmartMesh protocol, its major function is to provide high quality network node for Mesh network. The MeshBox is similar to the Internet router in common use and able to run continuously for a long time, which will make the distribution of Mesh network node very stable.
On a global outlook, the combination of blockchain and Mesh technology will achieve revolutionary breakthrough in the future, since it will successfully realize the message communication as well as the value-added services such as Off-Internet payment.
Based on the SmartMesh protocol, all intelligent devices can implement peer-to-peer payments without the Internet. In order to ensure convenience and security, the Off-Internet payment based on SmartMesh protocol is accomplished through the Raiden network. The Raiden network provides a fast, scalable and low-cost alternative to the on-chain transfer of tokens. It also provides users with the guarantee of finality, security and decentralization which is similar to the blockchain.
Technical Breakthrough on Mobile Raiden
The development of Raiden network for mobile terminal has been progressed nicely by SmartMesh team. Raiden Network has the superior advantage of fast transaction confirmation and low transaction fee, however, it could only run on PC terminal before. Being the first time around the world, SmartMesh team made a technical breakthrough on mobile Raiden technology. In the future, the mobile Raiden will be integrated with MeshBox, in that scenario, MeshBox shares the same network node with mobile Raiden, which means that with the full promotion of MeshBox, mobile Raiden will have hundreds of thousands of network nodes around the world in order to build up a global system of mobile Raiden micro-payment. This would be an effective way to achieve the unification of global micro-payment and build linked bridges for global network transactions.
In order to realize the function of fast payment, the SmartMesh team decided to develop the public chain SMChain (SmartMesh Chain) of SmartMesh ecosystem. Various issues have been uncovered in the current development and research of Ethereum, these issues will seriously affect the migration and operation of equipment nodes such as mobile devices and the Internet of things(IoT), etc. SmartMesh will charge lower on-chain gas fee while providing better compatibility between mobile devices and IoT. With the support of SmartMesh protocol, all of the applications within the ecosystem could take this public chain as the basis. SmartMesh is expected to attract more services to join the public chain.
When a Mesh network is build up with SmartMesh protocol in the areas without internet connectivity, SmartMesh will become the “Internet” in these areas. People can enjoy various services through Mesh network, such as communication, payment and information sharing. Hereby, SmartMesh has the confidence to be a leading technology around the world in the future.
The blockchain is making revolutionary changes to the world. SmartMesh versus Internet is analogous to the Lightning network/Raiden network/Plasma versus Blockchain. SmartMesh will start from the marginal region of the Internet, targeting at an era of interconnected and shared economy. At the time when the marginal regions of the Internet are all connected through SmartMesh network and receiving information from all over the world, it may bring new vitality to these regions without Internet connectivity.
The Chained Network of Things
With the booming of intelligent devices and edge computing, the IoT is moving forward to the “Chained network of Things”. Since the edge computing of SmartMesh is based on decentralized network, it is expected to surpass the cloud computing which is based on centralized network. BlockFog block is combination between AI and blockchain.
The essential value of SmartMesh is connecting the world through the Mesh network.
