Meshtastic Coverage Estimator

ITM / Longley-Rice model for estimating the range of your meshtastic radio.

Click on the map to select a location, then click run model. The colored tiles are where your signal can be received.


Predicted Signal (dBm)

-140 (weak) -90 (strong)

About

About

This tool calculates the ITM / Longley-Rice radio propagation model for Meshtastic LoRa radios (www.meshtastic.org). Its purpose is to estimate the range of a Meshtastic radio, using a realistic physics and terrain model.

It is not affiliated with the Meshtastic project.

Source code: https://github.com/mrpatrick1991/meshtastic_linkplanner

An effort has been made to choose model parameters which are realistic for meshtastic devices. However, the model does not account for higher-order effects such as reflections from water, structures, or signal degradation by precipitation or vegetation. The results are approximate and should not be used for safety-critical applications.

No location information is stored by this tool.

Acknowledgements

The propagation engine is based on work by the author of the geoprop-py repository.

This webpage uses the Leaflet library.

Terrain data is from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).

The required experimental data were gathered using hardware and software designs from www.meshtastic.org.

High-performance computation is provided by Calgary Protospace (https://protospace.ca).