GIGAMESH NETWORK SOLUTION

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• Recently, Astrome has signed a contract with the Department of Telecommunication to start the pilot project called “GigaMesh Network Solution with 15 villages in India.
• GigaMesh, developed by Astrome, will address congestion issues in rural 4G infrastructure and provide high-tech and affordable internet connectivity.
• The solution has been developed by Astrome.
• The startup is supported by AI & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK), the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
• It’s a network solution which will wirelessly provide fibre-like backhaul capacity and paves the road for 5G.
• It is the world’s first multi-beam E-band Radio that is able to communicate from one tower to multiple towers simultaneously while delivering multi GBPS throughput to each of these towers.
• A single GigaMesh device can provide up to forty links with 2+ Gbps capacity, communicating up to a range of ten kilometers.
• Gigamesh features multiple point-to-point communication in E-Band, lowering cost and is driven by software to make it easy to deploy, maintain and repair remotely.

ARTPARK

• ARTPARK is a not-for-profit foundation promoted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru to promote technology innovations in artificial intelligence (AI)& Robotics.
• AI researchers at ARTPARK, in collaboration with HealthTech startup Niramai Health Analytix and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have also developed XraySetu.
• XraySetu is a platform that can interpret chest X-rays with 98.86 % sensitivity toward Covid-19within few seconds.
• ARTPARK also organized the ARTPARK Innovation Summit that brought industry, academia and the government under one roof to discuss important topics such as:
• how to create next-generation connectivity in rural areas, health AI for Bharat, connecting Bharat with Drones inclusive learning for the future and building AI and research ecosystem.
• Apart from this, they participated in an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) experiment of the Indian Army and showcased India’s only Legged Robotic Dog.

Rural Connectivity

National Broadband Mission:

• NMB will facilitate universal and equitable access to broadband services across the country, especially in rural and remote areas.
• The vision of the Mission is to fast-track growth of digital communications infrastructure, bridge the digital divide, facilitate digital empowerment and inclusion, and provide affordable and universal access to broadband for all.

Way Forward

• The state should have a positive obligation to create infrastructure for a minimum standard and quality of Internet access as well as capacity-building measures which would allow all citizens to be digitally literate.
• The government should invest the resources saved by moving services online, to create a better Rural Digital infrastructure.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT