Who we are
Builders of small, stubborn infrastructure.
kldcomms is a hands-on effort to make communication, coordination, and shared knowledge something a person or a community can hold in their own hands.
What we do
Nodes that stand on their own.
We design and assemble nodes: self-contained systems that provide messaging, shared coordination, and a local knowledge store. They don't depend on the public internet, the power grid, or any one vendor. One node is useful by itself, and several nodes find each other and form a network. Our first is MiCS, the Mobile Interpersonal Communication System.
Our work sits where radio, low-power computing, and practical systems administration meet. We care less about novelty than about whether a thing still works after a year in a shed, a week on a battery, or a bad day for the person operating it.
Who it's for
People who can't afford silence.
- Rural and remote communities where coverage is thin, expensive, or absent.
- Emergency and mutual-aid groups that need to coordinate when networks are down or overloaded.
- Households and small organizations that want a communication plan that doesn't end at "check your phone."
- Anyone keeping records that matter, such as maps, procedures, and local knowledge, that shouldn't depend on one server staying up.
How we work
In the open, in the field.
We build in the open, test in the field, and write things down. When we recommend a design, we'll explain how to build it, what it costs, how it fails, and how to fix it. A system you can't maintain without us isn't resilient. It's just a different dependency.