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Project Lateralus: A distributed relay system in JavaScript

In today's social networking age, we often spend time posting insignificant life updates. But other times, emergency situations arise – times when you really need to get your message across.

In emergencies, however, we face obstacles such as low connectivity, blocked networks, no mobile data plans, or not having a smartphone at all. A solution to this problem is a service/platform that allows users to communicate with their relatives via social networks using SMS or BLE protocols. In other words, the ability to use internet without having direct access to it.

This was a talk presented in JSConf Uruguay 2016: https://jsconf.uy/schedule#lateralus-a-distributed-relay-system-in-javascript

Raul Pino

April 15, 2016
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  1. Who am I? • Born in Venezuela. • Universidad Centroccidental

    Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA) • Living in Chile. • Axiom Zen • ZenHub • Groupon Latam. 2
  2. Agenda Project Lateralus * Motivation * Problem * Solution Deatour

    into distributed systems Lateral ß * Architecture * Implementation * Demo 3
  3. Lateralus: Motivation • Interested in the topic (Cloud Computing (Coursera)).

    • Situation in Venezuela. • Political, economical, and social unstability, ... • Situation in Chile. • Earthquakes, volcanos, wildfires, tsunamis, ... 4
  4. Lateralus: Solution • Login once in a website with your

    Twitter account. • Send SMS to certified (local) phones. • Your message gets published. That's all. Twitter has that right? 6
  5. Lateralus ß: Implementation Lets build the prototype! Lateral Server: *

    Node.js server (Express) * Twilio access (twilio package) * Twitter login (passport-twitter) * Phone number valdiation (google- libphonenumber) * * Database on MongoDB (listeners list). 16
  6. Lateralus ß: Implementation Lateral App: * Ionic * Send/receive SMS

    (cordova-plugin- sms) * Listeners list on PouchDB (cordova adapter) * Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) cordova- plugin-bluetoothle * 17
  7. Roadmap • Release ß version! • GitHub org: project-lateralus •

    Bluetooth Low Energy • Paper draft about the protocol 19
  8. Thanks! The only thing needed is your will, because you

    already have the power. Twitter: @p1nox GitHub: p1nox https://github.com/project-lateralus 21