GIGAMESH NETWORK SOLUTION

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

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