George,

Just a thought..   how about placing a Meshtastic node at the AED.

You could wire a tamper/door switch to one of the spare GPIO pins.

When the switch triggers, it could send out a pre canned message like “AED 3 open”

Might even want to put it on it’s own channel/network.

The concept would work (I’m not smart enough to make it happen).

Thanks,

Rick KD9MY

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of k2dm--- via TVARC
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 9:34 AM
To: Club TVARC <[email protected]>
Subject: [TVARC] Ideas for monitoring our neighborhood AED?

Fellow TVARCers,

Our neighborhood (Eleanor courtyard villas) has an AED mounted on the wall of the overflow parking area.

A member of the AED committee came to me (no doubt thinking that a ham would know EVERYTHING) to see if

I had any ideas about how to monitor the device to keep it out of the wrong hands.

Well, THIS ham freely admits that HE doesn't know EVERYTHING, so I am reaching out to TVARC for any ideas.

One hint that the committee member gave me is that they do not want to involve the Internet.  Somewhat limiting,

I know.

So, if any of you has an idea, please let me know.

Thanks and 73,

George K2DM