Elektra Wagenrad
Elektra has been developing wireless mesh technology for community networks and solar powered systems in Germany, Bangladesh, India, Chile, Tanzania, South Africa. She is the author of 'Mesh' and one of the authors of "Wireless Networking in the Developing World."
She took part in the development of http://villagetelco.org and http://freifunk.net
She has developed the Freifunk-OpenMPPT, a open software/hardware solar controller with Maximum Power Point Tracking: https://wiki.freifunk.net/Freifunk-MPP-Tracker She also writes radical philosophical books about non-thinking and the relationship between language and consciousness.
Session
Freifunk Open-MPPT is an expanding Open-Hardware and Open-Software development project for efficient and resilient energy autonomous infrastructure like communication nodes, environment monitoring, irrigation – and more. The talk presents the currently available models, evolution, scope of current use and presents an outlook of what might follow in the future.