Know what’s happening
Beacon
Open BetaPlace-based live updates, alerts, and SOS for residents and visitors.
Activate your deviceA new Canadian utility
National infrastructure, built community by community.
We're building Canada's next generation secure, sovereign mesh communication network, free to use for all Canadians, in an emergency and on sunny days too.
The tools
For the people who live there
Built for personal and neighbourhood emergencies, communities use Northpost, Guides, and Beacon every day to stay informed, prepared, and connected.
Know what to do
Know your neighbours
Northpost
Early AccessA private directory of who lives here, how to reach them, and how they can help.
Visit northpost.caHow we deploy it
Community Ready puts the network in place
Community Ready is a free national program that helps communities prepare for — and stay connected during — emergencies and natural disasters.
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Implementation plan
A practical rollout for Beacon, Guides, and Northpost matched to local needs — not a one-size-fits-all stack dump.
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Local implementation support
Hands-on help standing up the tools with the people who will run them — municipalities, community halls, campuses, and local partners.
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Community-owned infrastructure
Mesh networking hardware communities own and operate — backup connectivity when cell towers fail and traditional networks go quiet.
How it works
See how Commonet works in real communities
Scroll to explore — identity, places, knowledge, and resilience in under a minute.
Every device becomes a beacon
Every activated phone helps connect the community around it.
No download.
No account creation.
No personal profiles.
More like CB radio than social media.
Real places anchor the network
Neighborhoods. Businesses. Trailheads. Community halls.
Every place becomes its own communication — and learning — layer, drawing from a nationally supported training library.
- How to use an AED
- Emergency Evacuation Plan
- Trail first aid
Local knowledge & skills, supported by the local community.
Community-owned. Nationally connected.
Each place runs as its own layer — owned locally, not rented from a platform.
Together those places form a resilient mesh: people and signals move between communities seamlessly.
Local ownership. Shared infrastructure. Real continuity.
Urgent information gets amplified
Attention becomes collective.
Communities can elevate urgent local information so nearby people become aware together.
Emergencies. Safety alerts. Missing persons. Severe weather.
Works even when networks go dark
Cell towers fail. The internet drops. Coordination still matters.
Safety Net hardware — pocket radios and community Lighthouses — keeps critical signals moving over a local mesh when everything else goes quiet.
Resilience you can touch, not a cloud you hope stays up.
A digital network for all Canadians
- Local coordination.
- Free communication.
- Community ownership.
- 100% Canadian.
This Is Commonet.
Partners
Bring Commonet to life
We're partnering with Canadian governments, institutions, and communities to bring Commonet to life. Contact us to learn more.
Contact us
Tell us who you are. We'll follow up on how Commonet can be deployed with you.