Justin Blinder

WSSID (Weather Service Set Identifier) is a hacked wireless router that collects and broadcasts live weather and radiation data from its local environment in the form of dynamically changing SSID names. The project examines the use of wireless networks on the environment and how we are always seemingly in range of these signals without explicitly asking to be. Operating similarly to the way in which weather is beyond our direct control, “WSSID” shows us how permeating these networks have become by relaying direct environmental data about the locations in which they are housed.

Created in collaboration with Jonah Brucker-Cohen.
Code located on GitHub.