"Mesh networks are the ideal solution for connecting outdoor weather sensors to the main KMA network because they can be used over large geographies including land and water," said Dr. Hyung-Kuen Ryu, PhD., project manager of KT Future Technology Laboratory's Next Generation Internet Research Division. "The Firetide mesh makes it easy to deploy network coverage for outlying islands and coastal areas where network cabling would be very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to install. It also provides much better performance and coverage than our legacy networks. The ability of the Firetide mesh to operate around line-of-sight obstacles and maintain high performance has allowed us to successfully backhaul weather sensors network at locations that are geographically 15km to 20km away. This is very impressive!"
The mesh network connects USN equipment on Jeju and Woo islands that monitor climate trends for researchers and maintains early warnings for Korean islanders during dangerous weather conditions. The Firetide system consists of small devices called mesh nodes that automatically link to each other to form the wireless network. Each Firetide mesh node has multiple Ethernet ports that allow any wired networking device, including video cameras and weather sensors, to operate wirelessly over the mesh without modification or additional configuration.
