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Building Self-Deployable Community Wireless Network for Rural Areas #201

Open mozfest-bot opened 6 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 6 years ago

[ UUID ] 99ec9c76-3ae1-435a-98ed-64910bbcafef

[ Session Name ] Building Self-Deployable Community Wireless Network for Rural Areas [ Primary Space ] Decentralisation [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] Senthil kumar Murugesan [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Geomeo Informatics Pvt Ltd [ Submitter's GitHub ] @sentenwin

What will happen in your session?

This talk is about the challenge in setting internet connectivity to rural villages, how the solutions of self deployment community network make this process smooth. In my previous experience working in this area, I have faced numerous challenges, Problems like lack of power supply, unforeseen natural and man-made interferences, cost of site-acquisition, low bandwidth backhaul network, complexity that accompanies wider coverage, economic unaffordability of the community and difficulty in accessibility for maintenance. To resolve the problems in the deployment of WiFi in rural areas, we have innovated a wireless node geomesh wire-free modular, multi-radio mesh router with IPFS offline support specially designed to provide connectivity in remote areas where internet access either doesn’t exist or it is too expensive.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Through this session delegates will have a clear knowledge on the challenges we are facing in providing internet connectivity in villages and how to solve it using Geomesh. They will gain practical experience on how to deploy community wireless networks, how we can serve rural areas with the help of a decentralised application, delegates can also understand about the openwrt eco-system and how to build a dApp using Blockchain technology. Technical empowerment is biggest benefit we can give to the society, this session will serve as a guide for them to solve the real time problems of rural people using Technology.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

  1. Need ethernet port to connect with the router for teaching the flashing tutorials.

Time needed

less than 60 mins

KadeMorton commented 6 years ago

@sentenwin thanks for the submission! Totally optional but feel free to check out the decentralisation theme this year https://github.com/KadeMorton/Xenshana

sentenwin commented 5 years ago

Thanks @KadeMorton