5_3_osbp_ready_for_design (THE workplace mission)

The central document for all Smartup Zero owners





The Official Smartup Business Plan (OSBP) is the central repository for all Smartup information, accessible to all owners. It originates from the entrepreneur's initial business plan, encompassing the product presentation, research sources, and the definition of ‘ready for design’. During the Validation phase, teams complete domain-specific assessments using the OSBP. This fosters organization and leads to Team Captain selection and the Project Leaders Team formation. This team, including captains and the entrepreneur, manages day-to-day operations, aligns via video conferences, makes decisions, and prepares the OSBP. Their completeness is essential to proceed beyond Validation.












Abstract:

Onlive is a novel transient network protocol designed for smartphones forming dynamic groups within a shared physical context, omitting the need for traditional servers, transmission towers, or even satellites. Operating independently of standard internet infrastructure, the protocol enables connectivity based on the prevalence of mobile phones in a specific area. It outlines procedures for connecting smartphones as they transition through various situations, events, and areas with their owners, establishing a transient communication infrastructure utilizing UDP. This facilitates the sharing of vital information during dire circumstances, such as natural or manmade disasters, serving as a resilient tool for communities. Onlive empowers communities to enhance disaster response, expedite resource sharing, and foster informed discussions in classrooms, ultimately offering a self-reliant solution for navigating the impacts of a rapidly changing natural and cultural climate. The netowork achieves these goals without dependency on third-party hardware or software. 

Smartup Zero presents a collaborative initiative to develop and manage Onlive-mesh, an open-source ad hoc mesh network technology designed for groups of smartphones. This novel implementation enables the rapid establishment of local private networks, fostering quick and resilient data sharing, particularly suited for small to medium-sized networks in post-disaster communication blackouts.


The project encompasses preliminary research, culminating in the design of a mesh network protocol tailored for WiFi-capable devices like smartphones, signalling readiness for the programming phase. Anticipated by the end of Q1 2025, a beta testable version of the Android app leveraging this networking technology aims to be released. This application empowers users to seamlessly create, navigate and join different groups (networks). Within these groups, mesh networks are deployed, facilitating the execution of specific software accessible to all group members, enhancing communication in diverse scenarios.


Ultimately, the Smartup Zero collective aims to provide a self-sufficient solution for overcoming communication challenges in the wake of rapidly changing natural and cultural climates. Notably, Onlive operates independently, free from external hardware or software dependencies, exemplifying its innovative and resilient network technology potential.













Executive Summary
The time for startups is over. It’s time to grow up. In a world facing a natural and cultural crisis, it is evident that we need the right toolset to stand a chance. To me, it’s also evident that our current one, does not do the trick.  


This Official Smartup Zero Business Plan (OSBP) is the central hub of information for all participants in the Smartup Zero experiment. If you made it this far, it means you are now a co-owner of a technology that has the potential to help communities all over the world to be resilient, humane and intelligent in their fight for a safe, sustainable and social environment.  You seek to prove that by empowering communities with a new toolset, we have a better shot at dealing with our changing natural and cultural climate. You commit to help build and govern the first tool of that toolset. By giving us control over our own digital tools, we can still make it. You have seen how fast digital technologies are able to  cause mass behaviour. That is a power that can be forged for good as well. 


Unlike traditional startups, Smartups are founded on the principle that technology should serve the needs of humanity, not the other way around. To define ‘what serves humanity’ we rely on the most comprehensive political and scientific framework in the world that has been designed and researched to tackle critical global challenges: the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of the most important conditions for a Smartup to exist is that it should create a technology that complies with at least one of these goals. 

Smartup technologies are democratically governed, scientifically validated, and created with the explicit intention of being owned and managed by the people who use and build them. The current paradigm, dominated by corporate interests and profit-driven technology, has led to widespread issues such as data exploitation, misinformation, democratic influences and environmental degradation. Billionaire entrepreneurs are diverting resources to trivial pursuits, while the planet faces unprecedented challenges, technology leaves us naked and volnerable. It is time to move beyond the juvenile stage of startups and step into a more mature, responsible era of technological development.
Smartup Zero introduces a new type of organization—the Smartup—where technology is built collectively, owned democratically, and governed scientificly. The first technology to be developed under this model is Onlive, a decentralized communication network that functions independently of traditional infrastructure. Onlive empowers communities to create their own networks, ensuring connectivity and coordination during crises and beyond. It serves as a tool for local resilience, enabling citizens to organize and respond to real-world issues without relying on corporate or governmental control.
This experiment is not about creating a single solution but about developing the tools and frameworks necessary for future generations to address our complex challenges. We aim to foster a culture of collective action and shared responsibility by providing communities with technologies they own and control. The experiment can lead to a blueprint that we can use to identify, create and market humane technologies fast and furious. Technologies we need in our daunting quest for a future for all mankind. We all feel and see our world change fast. Tetanic plates are crashing. Our cultural AND natural systems are colliding.  

The business plan invites coders, designers, researchers,  investors, innovators, and community leaders to join this transformative journey. By supporting Smartup Zero, you are investing in a new model of technological development that prioritizes the well-being of our planet and its people over profits. Together, we can build the digital tools needed to navigate our most pressing challenges and ensure a sustainable future for all for all mankind.

Let’s get to work,

Robbert Schep


Figure 1: Onlive is designed as a dimension between the online and the offline world. 

Smartup hypothese: a method to define if the world needs a technology?
The Smartup Hypothesis asserts a fundamental distinction between a Smartup and a traditional startup: a Smartup exclusively creates technologies that the world genuinely needs. This necessity is defined in three key dimensions:
Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Smartups ensure that the technologies they create address one or more of the 17 SDGs, which provide a globally agreed-upon framework for solving critical social, environmental, and economic challenges.
Scientific Grounding: A Smartup's technology must have a solid scientific basis, meaning there is evidence that the proposed solution can effectively solve the targeted problem. This is achieved by conducting research, gathering data, and validating the technology through scientific inquiry and peer-reviewed studies.
Democratic Grounding: Finally, a Smartup must prove that enough people actually want and support the creation of the technology. This is achieved through crowdfunding and community-building efforts. By building teams, rallying support, and reaching financial thresholds, the project demonstrates that there is collective interest and demand, ensuring the technology will serve real, widespread needs.
Together, these three pillars—global alignment, scientific validation, and democratic support—form the core of the Smartup approach, ensuring that each project is not only innovative but also impactful, necessary, and desired by the community.


Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals


1. SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure


Onlive enhances communication infrastructure, particularly in areas lacking traditional networks or during crises when infrastructure is compromised. By enabling decentralized, peer-to-peer networks, Onlive ensures that communities can maintain connectivity without the need for centralized towers, satellites, or servers. This directly contributes to building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation in technology.


How it Contributes: Onlive provides a scalable, low-cost infrastructure that can be deployed in remote regions and disaster-stricken areas. Its innovative approach to communication can accelerate the digital transformation of underserved areas.

2. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Onlive supports sustainable cities and communities by offering a tool for real-time communication during crises, events, or in dense urban environments. By enabling local, decentralized communication networks, it promotes safe, resilient, and sustainable communities.


How it Contributes: During emergencies or natural disasters, Onlive can keep citizens connected, allowing for better coordination of relief efforts and more effective disaster response. It also facilitates communication within urban settings for local governance and citizen engagement, enhancing the livability of cities.

3. SDG 13: Climate Action

As climate-related disasters become more frequent, Onlive’s decentralized networks can play a critical role in disaster response and recovery, especially in remote or hard-hit areas. Onlive supports emergency communications for climate-related events like floods, hurricanes, and fires, where traditional infrastructure often fails.


How it Contributes: Onlive enables quick deployment of communication systems during and after climate disasters, ensuring that relief efforts are organized and efficient. This supports adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards, improving disaster preparedness and response.

4. SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals


Onlive facilitates international cooperation and technology transfer in disaster recovery and public safety. It enables partnerships between governments, NGOs, and communities, creating an international network of collaboration focused on disaster response, technology deployment, and citizen participation.


How it Contributes: By creating networks that allow local governments, international aid organizations, and displaced tech professionals to collaborate seamlessly, Onlive supports the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development.

5. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being


Onlive indirectly supports good health and well-being by ensuring communication is maintained during emergencies, helping coordinate medical response and health services in disaster scenarios. Reliable communication is essential for saving lives and ensuring that medical resources are allocated effectively during crises.


How it Contributes: Onlive enables health workers to communicate in disaster zones, where traditional systems might be down. It also allows citizens to reach medical services or coordinate community-led health initiatives in real-time.

6. SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities


Onlive bridges the digital divide by providing accessible communication networks, even in areas where traditional infrastructure is lacking. This can reduce inequalities in access to information, services, and opportunities, particularly for marginalized or rural communities.


How it Contributes: By offering a low-cost, infrastructure-independent communication solution, Onlive ensures that underserved populations, including those in rural or remote regions, have access to essential services, information, and participation in governance, helping to reduce inequalities within and among countries.

Conclusion:
Onlive is a versatile technology with the potential to impact several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. From improving communication infrastructure (SDG 9) to enabling resilient, connected communities (SDG 11) and facilitating better disaster response (SDG 13), its deployment can drive progress across multiple fronts. By aligning with these global goals, Onlive offers a scalable, innovative solution that supports sustainable development, disaster preparedness, and citizen empowerment.
Scientific Grounding 

To demonstrate the potential of Onlive to solve real-world problems, particularly in disaster recovery and citizen participation, several scientific studies and reviews validate the utility of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) like Onlive in critical situations. Below is a list of relevant articles and studies that provide scientific proof and context for the development and deployment of Onlive technology:
1. Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges
This comprehensive review discusses various communication technologies used in disaster situations, including MANETs. It highlights the resilience of ad hoc networks when traditional infrastructure fails, offering insights into how MANETs like Onlive can be vital in disaster-stricken areas by enabling real-time communication between survivors and rescue teams.
Relevance to Onlive: Onlive’s decentralized nature directly addresses the need for resilient communication in disaster zones, ensuring connectivity without relying on damaged infrastructure​(
Study: ar5iv


2. Design of a Mobile Ad Hoc Network Communication App for Disaster Recovery
This paper explores the design of MANET apps for disaster recovery, emphasizing the role of real-time data in organizing and prioritizing resources in emergencies. It shows how MANETs can efficiently manage communication in scenarios like earthquakes and floods, where traditional communication channels are down.
Relevance to Onlive: The study supports Onlive’s vision as a disaster recovery tool, allowing for organized, data-driven response in disaster situations through local, decentralized communication. 
Study: ar5iv


3. Ad Hoc Networks and Mobile Devices in Emergency Response
This study analyzes the use of wireless ad hoc networks as part of emergency response solutions, highlighting the necessity for robust communication systems. It underscores the compatibility of MANETs with emergency systems and the role of mobile devices in real-time data dissemination during crisis events.
Relevance to Onlive: Onlive builds on these principles by using mobile devices to create ad hoc networks that ensure continuous communication during emergencies, even in the absence of central infrastructure​
Article: SpringerLink


4. Implementing Wireless Ad Hoc Networks for Disaster Relief Communication
This paper presents case studies of Wi-Fi-based ad hoc networks implemented in disaster areas. It demonstrates how portable wireless nodes can establish communication links for rescuers and survivors. The study also focuses on smartphone-based solutions, making it highly relevant to Onlive’s mobile-first approach.
Relevance to Onlive: Onlive’s focus on smartphone interconnectivity mirrors the findings in this study, proving its potential as a solution for post-disaster communication by leveraging widely available devices like smartphones​.
Article: ar5iv
5. Disaster Network Science: Research and Applications
This research emphasizes how network science, specifically the study of distributed communication networks, can enhance disaster response. It highlights how data from different sources can be used to coordinate relief efforts effectively.
Relevance to Onlive: Onlive’s decentralized network structure aligns with the principles of disaster network science, enabling a system where communication and data sharing happen seamlessly, aiding both citizens and first responders​(
Article: ar5iv
Conclusion
The scientific literature consistently points to the vital role of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) in disaster recovery and emergency situations. By providing resilient, decentralized communication that functions even when traditional infrastructure is down, Onlive has the potential to become a crucial tool in disaster recovery, citizen participation, and community resilience. The use of widely available smartphones ensures scalability and accessibility, making Onlive a promising solution for addressing real-world challenges as supported by these studies.
Democratic grounding: are there enough people who want this technology?
The most crucial and daunting objective of a Smartup in the validation phase is to determine if there are enough people who want this technology to exist. It’s the task ofthe 4_1_1_entrepreneur to prove this through:

1. Crowdfunding a target budget 
2. Finding all the team captains




We've designed Onlive specifically for disaster recovery and enhancing community resilience in times of crisis. Onlive enables individuals to remain connected and share vital information, even when traditional infrastructure, like the internet or cellular networks, is unavailable. Whether it's a natural disaster like an earthquake or a public emergency, Onlive ensures that people in proximity can form dynamic communication networks on the spot.
The core function of Onlive is to support citizen cooperation and coordination during disasters, creating an autonomous, decentralized network based entirely on the devices of the people in the area that is affected. Without the need for centralized infrastructure, Onlive operates using a mesh-network protocol that connects smartphones directly, fostering a local, self-sustaining communication environment.
How It Works in Disaster Scenarios:
Ad Hoc Network Creation (Groups): When a disaster strikes and cuts off traditional communication channels, Onlive automatically creates groups based on proximity. Citizens, first responders, and relief workers within the affected area form an instant, temporary network. For example, survivors in an affected neighborhood automatically become part of a local group, facilitating communication even if cellular towers are down. Within these groups, you exist exclusively within a temporary, dynamic, and autonomous network, with the software and data residing solely on smartphones in the same group.
Crisis-Specific Tools (Plugins): Each group operates under a group host, who may be a local government official, aid worker, or tech specialist. The group host manages specific tools (plugins) relevant to the crisis—like emergency messaging, resource tracking, or location sharing. These plugins run directly within the group, allowing users to send messages, share their status, or request help, without relying on external servers.
Dynamic User Interface (Cards): Onlive also provides a clear, intuitive user interface through "cards." In this interface, citizens can access real-time updates and share essential information, like their location or health status, through cards that are shared across the group.
Key Features for Disaster Recovery:
Decentralized Communication: No need for internet or cell networks—Onlive uses nearby devices to keep communication flowing.
Autonomous Data Management: Data and interactions are stored locally within the group, giving citizens control over their information.
Rapid Deployment: Onlive can be activated in any emergency, allowing citizens to organize and share resources or information quickly and effectively.
By empowering communities to establish their resilient networks, Onlive contributes directly to faster, more coordinated disaster recovery efforts. It bridges communication gaps, ensures vital information flows, and enhances community resilience when every second counts.
