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Serval Mesh is an Android app that provides highly secure mesh networking, voice calls, text messaging and file sharing between mobile phones using Wi-Fi, without the need for a SIM or any other infrastructure like mobile cell towers, Wi-Fi hotspots or Internet access.

• Serval Mesh general information – download, install, documentation, release history
• Serval Mesh development – copyright, source code, technical documentation, testing, release procedure, issue tracking
• Supported Devices – supported Android phones and devices
• Serval DNA (core component) – general information
• Serval DNA development – copyright, source code and branching, technical documentation, testing, issue tracking

Serval Maps is an Android app that uses Serval Mesh to provide collaborative, infrastructure-independent, geographical mapping.

The Serval Mesh Extender is a hardware device that helps other devices to join and participate in a Serval Mesh network.

• powered by any external USB power source (5V 500mA)
• Mesh Extenders mesh together over short distances using Ad Hoc Wi-Fi, over longer distances using packet radio on the ISM 915 MHz band
• provides a standard Wi-Fi Access Point for nearby devices (such as smart phones) that do not support Ad Hoc Wi-Fi mode
• offers the Serval Mesh (app for Android) app for Android for download via HTTP so that people can join the Mesh network without having previously installed the app
• acts as a Rhizome node, storing and forwarding files and MeshMS messages
• provides a platform for future Serval Project initiatives, such as the commoditisation of many classes of medical monitoring devices.

The following is a list of past and planned trial deployments and related activities.

• Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary Demonstrator July 2010
• Nigeria InterNews Trial Jan 2011
• KiwiEx 2012 with NZ Red Cross Feb/March 2012
• KiwiEx 2013 with NZ Red Cross, New America OTI/Commotion and NLnet Foundation Feb/March 2013