Youngster Creates Software to Send Computer Data through Radio

Bangalore: Who would have thought of getting emails and data over the radio? But now this is possible because of 22-year-old, Vinny Lohan who has developed a software that lets one do just that. Radios reach out to the millions in the country, and transistors are cheap and easily available. Lohan has come up with a software to send computer data over normal radio waves, reported Jaimon Joseph for CNN-IBN.

Vinny said "Computers are all about zeros and ones. Be it video or text or music, to a computer, it is all zeros and ones. Since that's so, we asked ourselves, can we take a book or a video and convert it into music. And then send it over the airwaves. Turns out the answer was yes."

'OneBeep' is the special software that Vinny and his friends created. In order to send a file, video or text, the broadcaster has to just select and drag it into the software. OneBeep converts that data into an audio file, which is then sent out over the airwaves.

Vinny was quoted saying to IBN Live "It's a bit like bit-torrent. When you are downloading something, the software is intelligent enough to know when something is paused and when it is restarted. We break digital data into packets. The software is converting audio into packets of data on the computer. Say your signal is weak or your battery died. When it restarts, it starts from the place it left off."

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