Prepared families
House and vehicle radios, programmed for your area
Tailored radio, mapping,
and AI systems.
Ipswich River Labs is a small R&D shop in Massachusetts. Some of our work ships as small-batch kits. The rest is built to order for our clients.
Get the node pack.
Sign up and your node pack downloads the second you submit — no waiting on an email. The node is our NomadNet board: encrypted, works with no internet, and it is where build notes and new work land first.
- Node address and setup guide, downloading instantly
- Bench notes from the build — including what failed
- First word when something new is ready
What we build.
Four product lines, preconfigured on hardware you own and shipped ready to run.
Preprogrammed radio kits
GMRS and MURS handhelds that arrive working. We program the channels, name them in plain English, preset the volume, and print the laminated channel card that goes in the box. Each radio is tested before we box it. Sets are sized for a household or a whole safety team.
$80–170 / radio · family sets $250–600
Talk through your projectPortable repeaters
A complete repeater system built into a portable case, assembled and tested in our shop, shipped ready to run. We commission it with you over video, and we guarantee clear comms across the property we map together — within 30 days, or we work free until you have them. Two versions: General (GMRS, and we file your licence with you) and Secure (Part 90 DMR, AES-256 encrypted voice, keys you hold and we never see).
$3,495 or $4,495 · coverage guaranteed in 30 days
See the Ipswich RepeaterMesh & perimeter kits
LoRa mesh nodes and driveway, gate, and perimeter sensors that report over your own radio network, so they keep working when the cell network is down. There is no account to create and nothing to subscribe to. Solar options for barns, treelines, and fence corners.
≤$200 / node · property sets $400–900
Talk through your projectOffline mapping
An offline map server loaded with data packs for your county, delivered as part of organizational repeater projects. It runs TAK, the Team Awareness Kit, and gives a team one shared map with no internet connection anywhere.
rides inside repeater projects
Talk through your projectWho we serve.
Our customers are providers: prepared families, church safety teams, camps, schools, farms, and SAR and CERT units. In each of them, somebody holds the budget and owns the result when equipment fails. The kit has to work the day it is needed, in the hands of whoever picks it up. Our gear is for family and team safety. We believe in peace through strength, and we do not promote violence or the overthrow of any government.
Church safety teams
Earpiece comms from the lobby to the parking lot
Camps & retreats
Coverage across the property that new staff can run on day one
Schools
Drills that work when the cell network is down
Farms
Gates, barns, and back fields on one net
SAR & CERT teams
Interoperable radios and printed maps for callouts
Consulting.
We design and stand up systems, document them, and hand them off. You keep them.
Business technology consulting
We take on a small number of technology projects for farms, churches, camps, and small businesses. The work covers networks, servers, self-hosted software, offline mapping, and private AI: local models for document search and transcription that run on hardware you own, with no data leaving the building. An engagement ends with written documentation your own people can operate from.
scoped engagements · fixed quote up front
Talk through your project
We are a proud supporter of the Reticulum network, and we build systems enabled for it.
reticulum.networkWhy we build.
We help people build better capabilities for themselves, their families, and their communities, so that when the time comes they are more resilient today than they were yesterday.
Gear is just stuff: relationships are worth more than anything a piece of kit will get you. The best-equipped rarely beat the best-organized. And communities often already have the people and resources they need to thrive; our job is to help connect them.
