Wireless Nodes Database
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WiND is a Web application targeted at Wireless community networks. It was created as a replacement for NodeDB for the members of Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) located in Athens, Greece.
| WiND - Wireless Nodes Database | |
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| Developer: | Nikolaos Nikalexis, Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Christos Petsas, Petros Moisiadis, Faidon Liambotis, John Kolovos |
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| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Web Application |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | wind.cube.gr |
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[edit] License
WiND was created by a team of people and each piece of code remains under the copyright of their respective author.
WiND is Free Software, licensed under the GNU GPL.
[edit] Technical information
WiND is written in PHP and uses a MySQL backend for storing the data. Smarty is used as the template engine.
[edit] Features
- Supports multiple users and multiple nodes per user
- User management: different access rights for each job
- Stores all the node information a Wireless MAN will need: location, height, area, region, backbone & AP interfaces, roof view photos, subnets & hosts in a node etc.
- Provides an easy (but powerful) way of searching for specific nodes
- Using NASA's SRTM data, it graphs the Line of Sight (and Fresnel zone) between two nodes and calculates Free space loss for the distance between them
- Uses Google Maps to show the nodes and their links on the map.
- Can be used to manage the distribution of IP Ranges and forward/reverse DNS assigned to each node (Hostmaster)
- Fully themeable interface (using simple (X)HTML templates)
- Support for L10n localization; Unicode/UTF-8 support
- Integrates with BIND Nameserver for serving the DNS zones, PowerDNS integration planned
- A WHOIS server is provided that serves the data using the WHOIS protocol
[edit] Future Plans
- Installation page
- Administration page (SRTM file upload)
- Peer notification on new link creation (BB or client)
- Monitoring links using graphs (snmp data)
- Monitoring of IP layer (pings, latency etc)
- Radio coverage (Google maps, Google earth)
- PowerDNS integration
- Statistics (new nodes, new links)
- Action logging
[edit] Demo
You can always find a working demo of the latest development version at wind.sf.net.
Also you can visit working installations by communities that currently using WiND:
- AWMN - Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
- TrWN - Tripoli Wireless Network
- TWMN - Thessaloniki's Wireless Metropolitan Network
- WiMAN - Wireless Metropolitan Agrinio Network
- EWN - Evia Wireless Network
- Veria Wireless Metropolitan Network
- TOWN - Trikala Open Wireless Network
- HSWN - Heraklion Wireless Network
[edit] Documentation
Visit the documentation page for detailed information about the project.
