DAKNET TECHNOLOGY

1. 1. DakNet (WIRELESS
TECHNOLOGY)

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1. 2. What do you do when you want to provideDigital

communication services Voice mail Digital documents E-mail
Isolated Villages No Electricity No Telephone How ?
2. 3. But How when there's not even a proper road to the village??
Why, on motorcycles! if that doesn't work either, try bicycles.
3. 4. 19/08/11
4. 5. Simple, low- cost, and easy to deploy.* Combines a physical
means of transportation with wireless data transfer * It uses wireless
technology to provide asynchronous digital connectivity. * It is an ad
hoc network. * Derives from the Hindi word for “post” or “postal,”. *
Developed by MIT Media Lab researchers. *What is DakNet ?
5. 6. Power source DakNet runs on computers that are powered by
solar panels fixed on rooftops or generators attached to a bicycle
wheel.
6. 7. Mobile access point* Kiosk * Hub *Architecture of DakNet
Components of Architecture
7. 8. MAP(Mobile Access Point) A movable transceiver, which may
periodically receive and/or transmit digitized information to and
from kiosk and periodically received and/or transmit, digitized
information to and from a server acting as the gateway to the
internet and/or telephony network(s).

8. 9. Kiosk The facilities at a physically location where a client computer

may be available for customer access or the physical locations
where
a physically movable device may be made available for customer
access. A client computer kiosk may be sited to enable effective
transmission to and from a Mobile Access Point.
9. 10. Hub(Internet Access Point) A Computer device with direct,
realtime connection to the Internet and/or other national and/or
international communications infrastructure or a common connection
point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect
segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports.
10. 11. How it works ? • Transmits data over short point-to-point
links between kiosks and portable storage devices, called Mobile
Access Point(MAPs). • MAPs are mounted on and powered by a bus,
a motorcycle, or even a bicycle with a small generator. • MAP
physically transports data among public kiosks and private
communications devices and between kiosks and a hub. • Low-cost
Wi-Fi radio transceivers automatically transfer the data stored in the
MAP at high bandwidth for each point-to-point connection.
11. 12. Features • The primary advantages of a VAN(Value-added
Network) are its low cost and ease of set up. • No laying of copper or
fiber to each village or trying to establish costly long- distance
wireless links or satellite uplinks. • A VAN takes advantage of
existing transportation infrastructure to create an affordable
broadband network. • Latency or delay of this network is higher than
other networks. • Higher per day data throughput than other low-
bandwidth technologies such as telephone modems .
12. 13. Seamless Scalability • DakNet provides the ability to
seamlessly upgrade to the always-on broadband connectivity. • The
wireless broadband connectivity provides sophisticated services like
voice over internet protocol which allows “normal” real-time
telephony. • DakNet supports easy user-interface and low cost
hardware that allows individuals, with no professional skills of using
communication devices, operate the software and get connected.
13. 14. DakNet Economics • A capital investment of $15 million
could equip each of India’s 50,000 rural buses with MAP and thereby
provide connectivity to about 750 million people living in rural India. •
Costs for the interactive user devices that DakNet supports—
including thin-client terminals, PDAs, and VoIP telephones—may
also soon become far more affordable than traditional PCs or WLL
equipment.
14. 15. Reduced regulatory challenges and licensing fees] Seed
infrastructure that is scalable with demand ] Bandwidth does not
decrease with distance ] Lower uplink costs and maintenance
requirements ] Easy to implement on widespread basis ] Leverages
two major trends 1. Cost of wireless broad (Wi-Fi) 2. Cost of digital
storage ] Real-time communications not required for public kiosks 1.
Communications tend to be asynchronous 2. Villager’s trade -off
latency for affordability ] Advantages
15. 16. Disadvantages • Token ring constraint if a lower tier goes
down, all higher tier goes down. • Experience and Expertise person
can only handled kiosk. • Efficiency of bandwidth reduced for each
tier.
16. 17. Applications • Internet/Internet messaging • Information
distribution/Broadcasting • Information collection • Rural supply
chain management • Information searching & web searching
17. 18. DakNet in action • A Mobile Access Point network was
deployed for Bhoomi, a computerization of land records initiative in
Karnataka (India) which has been acknowledged as the first national
eGovernance initiative in India. • A MAP was mounted on an
existing public government bus that provides connectivity to villages
up to 70km away.
18. 19. Projects In Different Countries Hybrid Real-Time, Store-and-
Forward Wi-Fi Mesh in Kigali, Rwanda Internet Village Motoman
Expands to Pailin, Cambodia Commercial Network Los-Santos.net
in Rural Costa Rica
19. 20. Conclusion DakNet provides extraordinarily low-cost digital
communication, letting remote villages leapfrog past the expense of
traditional connectivity solutions and begin development of a full-
coverage broadband wireless infrastructure. Its biggest benefit,
according to United Villages, is that it provides people in
underserviced rural areas with a digital identity -- a lifetime phone
number and email address.
20. 21. References http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/
http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/index.php?
src=news&refno=47 http://www.unitedvillages.com/
21. 22. Visit www.seminarlinks.blogspot.com to download.