the internet of us: the makings of a smart city
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You are the Internet
Connecting the next 5 Billion
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Smartphones shipments forecast (in million units)
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Open Garden
Trends• 5+ Billion smartphones shipped in less than 3 years• Mobile data demand will be multiplied by 4• 80% of global adult population will have a smartphone• 80% in urban areas with a very high population density• 80% of users won’t be able to pay for data or
are outside range of mobile data networks
in emerging markets
Urban Density
Percent of global Adult Population Without a Smartphone
Smartphones radios move data and content directly from one phone to another.
Phone to phone communications are inevitable
Bluetooth 90 feet (50 mW)
Wi-Fi 250 feet (350 mW)
LTE 1,500 feet (1,000 mW)
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We are creating a worldwide smartphone infrastructure
The Internet of Us
“FireChat is sneakily subversive and quite possibly the most important thing to happen to the Internet since 1995.”
TIME Magazine April 2014
March 2014FireChat
iOS + Android
Takes OG software further by providing basic chat services.
No internet required.
March 2014Taiwan
Protesters organizeusing FireChat
Immediately after its release, usage spiked with the “Sunflower Movement”
techinasia.com
Bluetooth
Wi-Fi
April 9th 2014
August 2014Burning Man
FireChat breaks the news 45 mins before Twitter
about a rain storm delaying the event
June 2014Iran
Governmentrestricts Facebook,
WhatsApp, Instagram
June 2014Iraq
40,000 downloadsin one weekend.
Government blocks access to major social
media networks.
Citizens respond to mass censorship by flocking to
FireChat.
FireChat breaking the news
Sept. 28th - Oct. 1st Protests in Hong Kong 2+ million chat sessions Largest mesh of its kind
At the same time Twitter 1.3 million tweets worldwide
500,000+ installsin less than a week in Hong Kong alone
November 2014NH7 Music
Festival
15 bands and thousands of fans adopt FireChat to interact live during the largest music festival in India.
December 30th 2014Alexei Navalny
Putin opposition leader announces his arrest on
FireChat
March 2015UME largest Spring
Break Festival in Texas
March 2015FireChat wins
Innovation Award at SXSW
First live chats between artists, their fans and
journalists
FireChat used for live news gathering around the world.
March 2015Storyful launches first live open newsroom on
FireChat
April 2015Kashmir tunes into
FireChat for live interactive news about floods
30,000+ publications
FireChat builds instant social networks
Scales instantly
Coming soon
Internet in your hands
FireChat + GreenStoneThe power to build and grow your own Internet
everywhere
“Open Garden may have found the next version of the internet”March 20th 2015
