Simple Tools for Everyday Tasks
Organize
A neighborhood uses PLAN to visually organize shared community resources and garden spaces, announce events, track availability and location of tools, and host a distributed knowledge-base for local schools. Internet not required.
Mobilize
A recovery effort uses PLAN to coordinate volunteers on a 3D map, identify environmental hazards, and track resupply efforts. Using donated laptops, wifi routers, and power from on-scene generators, volunteers have rich interconnectivity.
Adapt
A creative maker-space uses an image of the floor-plan to spatially link to equipment documentation, training videos, sign-out schedules, and to broadcast live demonstrations. Everyone in the community retains ownership of their data, with no third-party dependencies.
Build
A non-profit organization uses PLAN as a daily communications tool to stay in direct contact with organizers, manage files with persistence and redundancy, spatially track materials, and maintain an archive of the organization charter and budget.
PLAN Design Principles
Our development approach begins with a core set of principles and values that guide decision making, such as ability to operate disconnected from the internet, prioritizing data ownership & privacy, and designing with accessibility & non-technical users in mind.
Principles for a Community Operating System:
Total Data Ownership
Community-Centric Permissions
Off-grid Capable
Universal Inclusion
Total Data Privacy, Real-World Security Provisioning
Spatial and Immersive Experiences
Gatekeeperless
Infrastructure & Interfaces
Modular & Pluggable Components
Tools for Data & Infrastructure
Redundancy
Hardware Agnostic, Open Source Flexibility
PLAN Design Principles Compared
Once production ready, PLAN will be installed like any application, with most major device operating systems supported from launch.
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The design values of any system show up in both the functionality and limitations of the system; we use this chart to help compare the functionality and tradeoffs of various platforms and technologies.
Components of PLAN
Your data, your tools, your network. The major components in PLAN are designed to be pluggable and modular, so you're never locked in to a particular system, network, or configuration; with built-in peer-to-peer services, distributed data, and a modernized user interface (UI/UX) framework for real-time 3D applications.
Privacy Encryption
Secure Key Interface
Abstracts your private key storage, key handling, and offers support for third-party encryption and authentication
Archival Storage
Persistant Data Interface
The bottom layer of PLAN is a storage abstraction which secures and archives the most critical data on your network
Swarm File Sharing
Swarm File Interface
The SFI meets a community's bulk data storage needs, and makes large files available across the swarm
Peer-to-Peer Services
Pnode - Data Serving Repositories
The middle layer of PLAN is a p2p node that compartments and serves diverse data across the network
Native 2D-3D Applications
Channel Science
Channels are the "applications" in PLAN, built with an open, pluggable framework, so functionality can be modified or extended
PLAN 3D
Client Application
Start PLAN on any workstation and begin building your home space, communication channels, and capabilities with ease
PLAN is built on a P2P architecture that serves data across your available network.
PLAN can scale and adapt to many different configurations, from a home office, to a fully replicated peer network.
Framework for a Community
Operating System
PLAN is not a traditional OS, rather it is a peer-to-peer system + UI/UX framework designed for privacy communications, realtime collaboration, spatial planning, data visualization, and data portability. Welcome to the Intranets.
Community-Centric Data Model
- Community Centric Permissions
- P2P Files, media, and content server
- Supports public and private channels
Extensible Data Channels & Adapters
- Data visualization & collaboration
- Talk, notes, task & spaces
- Geo-location & tagging
External platform integrations are not required, and are for example purposes only.
Spatial User Experience
- Cross platform 3D engine
- Realtime collaboration
- Persistent interface
- VR/AR/XR, CAD, ready
- Custom scenes & templates
- Navigate spaces within spaces
Pluggable & Secure Infrastructure
- Distributed data store & archive
- Secure pluggable encryption
- “Inflates” onto any device
- Built for scalability & persistence
- Pluggable DLT infrastructure
- Future-proof upgradability
Spatially Immersive Interface with a Plugin Architecture
The roadmap for PLAN consists of three interdependent layers which can be scaled and adapted for the needs of a community. This includes the secure storage layer, the peer-to-peer infrastructure, as well as a UI/UX Framework that is accessible to both technical and non-technical people. The vision for the PLAN platform is to incorporate open protocols and extensible interfaces to foster interoperability of systems for education, science, and underprivileged communities, while also making it easier to connect and share critical information without giving up sensitive privacy data.
PLAN’s Open Plugin Architecture depicted with plugin components: Ethereum, IPFS, Babble, HashGraph, and Dropbox; for example purposes only.