Nikhil Sheth
Groups I'm involved with: Swaraj University
Interested in: Sustainability
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Post by Nikhil Sheth on Oct 22, 2013 20:08:40 GMT 5.5
Imagine : an off-the-grid local intranet network in a village running its own interactive websites, creating and sharing its own content among its constituents in their own language, using low-cost wifi-enabled devices and with everything running on low-voltage hardware powered by renewable energy. Inviting you to join a discussion around this. This follows from an FB post i'd shared earlier. |
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Nikhil Sheth
Groups I'm involved with: Swaraj University
Interested in: Sustainability
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Post by Nikhil Sheth on Oct 22, 2013 23:20:25 GMT 5.5
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Nikhil Sheth
Groups I'm involved with: Swaraj University
Interested in: Sustainability
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Post by Nikhil Sheth on Oct 23, 2013 11:00:35 GMT 5.5
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Post by intelharsh on Oct 29, 2013 20:26:36 GMT 5.5
Hey nikhil!
My thoughts...
what is the end result you are looking at? Developing your own low-cost hardware or seeing the system in place (maybe using available hardware)..
Companies like AirJaldi are not off-grid but providing low-cost solutions using solar. You can leverage their expertise.
Since you are talking about off-grid, do you have any places in mind? What are the available resources which can be tapped to setup this system?
Will even the PCs be run on solar?
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Nikhil Sheth
Groups I'm involved with: Swaraj University
Interested in: Sustainability
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Post by Nikhil Sheth on Dec 3, 2013 8:25:31 GMT 5.5
a communication network that does not need expensive, centralized towers? something like this project might give an answer commotionwireless.net/ |
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Nikhil Sheth
Groups I'm involved with: Swaraj University
Interested in: Sustainability
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Post by Nikhil Sheth on Dec 12, 2013 10:05:06 GMT 5.5
Hi intelharsh, Thanks for asking! I'll share one of the bottom lines : Zero dependence on high voltage grid electricity. Naturally the PCs will also be running on whatever decentralized source of power we devise. I think it's all possible within 5V or max 12V DC. And we might be solely using phones instead of PCs. Or tablets. On the software end, XAMPP and its variants; or rachel.worldpossible.org/ can be the most basic things deployed. In these we can set up a blog or discussion forum or chatroom or anything interactive. If hosting this on a smartphone proves difficult, we can use Raspberry Pi which is being used at many places as a low-power-consuming server. |
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Nikhil Sheth
Groups I'm involved with: Swaraj University
Interested in: Sustainability
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Post by Nikhil Sheth on Jan 2, 2014 21:55:45 GMT 5.5
Got a portable server, uWamp (working in windows), where the website, db everything can be stored inside a folder and carried anywhere. This search engine: www.sphider.eu/ can be used to index and search simple websites... can be used on locally hosted websites. |
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