Smart Parks Protect Go

The companion of Smart Parks Protect for the place without a connection. A RangerEdge offload station collects the flash logs trackers offload to it over LP0 and writes them to an SD card; Protect reads such a card on its server. Protect Go reads the same card on a laptop in the field, with Protect's own decoding code, so the people who collected the card see the positions and the measurements before they are back where there is a connection. When there is one, Protect Go hands the untouched card files to Protect, which decodes them itself.

Status: phase 0, the repository and its tooling (2026-10-17). Follow PROJECT_PLAN.md in the repository for what is being built and in which order.

flowchart LR
  Protect[Protect server] -- "field bundle: devices, entities,\ncredentials, area, map extract" --> App[Protect Go on a laptop]
  Card[(SD card)] -- "card files" --> App
  App -- "the same card files" --> Protect

Where to look

Page	For whom	What it covers
Using Protect Go	People in the field	Where it runs, how to install it, the cycle of bundle, card and upload
The contract with Protect	Developers	What comes down in a field bundle, what goes up, and what never travels
Decisions	Developers	Architecture decision records