Wave Chat

Wave Chat is our chat application for mobile and desktop. It is built on top of Wave Net and is designed to look and feel like a modern chat app. It is functional while fully offline in a mesh / peer-to-peer manner, or online through the internet. Once the internet is available, it can sync with the cloud to provide a seamless experience across devices.

To combat network effects and compete with the numerous chat applications available, Wave Chat is being released to the public for free usage by anyone. Enterprises can pay for expanded access, and anyone can buy our optional hardware to increase functionality and range of their offline messaging via LoRa. Additionally, Wave Chat is designed to be able to integrate with other chat services and allow users to chat with their friends on other services (for a subscription fee), thereby easing adoption of Wave Chat.

This cross-compatibility is achieved by integrating with our own Matrix server to provide a bridge to other chat services, allowing you to use Wave Chat to chat with friends on other services. This is similar to what Beeper does, but we operate it through Wave Net to allow for offline and mesh communication.

Development

Wave Chat is currently under development. It is being developed in parallel with Wave Net and Wave Clip by our App Development team.

Wave Chat is built on React-Native and is designed to be cross-platform.

Additional documentation on the development of Wave Chat will be added by the App Development team as it becomes available.

Supported

Platforms

Wave Chat is available on the following platforms:

• iOS
• Android
• Windows
• macOS
• Linux
• Web

Features

Wave Chat currently supports the following features:

• Text chat
• Call
  • Voice
  • Video
• Audio messages
• Image sharing
• File sharing
• Group chats
• Location sharing

Transmission Mediums

Wave Chat can make use of the following transmission mediums:

• 915 MHz Wave Clip
  • Amazon Sidewalk
    • LoRa
    • FSK
  • LoRa
  • LoRaWAN
  • FSK
  • LR-FHSS
  • Sigfox
  • NB-IoT
  • LTE-M
  • Zigbee
• 2.4 GHz Wave Clip and/or onboard radio
  • Amazon Sidewalk
    • BLE (Requires a sign-in to Amazon in mobile app)
    • BLE (Through a Wave Clip)
  • Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) (Both in-app and through a Wave Clip)
  • Bluetooth Classic
  • ANT
  • Thread
  • Wi-Fi (in-app only)
  • Wi-Fi Direct
• 5 GHz
  • Wi-Fi
  • Wi-Fi Direct
• Other
  • Cellular (Requires a device with cellular, not Wave Clip compatible)
  • Direct to Satellite (if phone supports it, not Wave Clip compatible)
  • NFC (Near Field Communication) (Requires a phone with NFC or a Wave Clip)
  • QR Code (Requires a camera, not Wave Clip compatible)
  • Sound (Dial-up modem style through the microphone & speaker)
  • Light (Camera & flashlight approach)
  • Vibration (Haptic feedback and accelerometer approach)
  • Infrared