CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION MYTHS AND TRUTH WHY DAKNET?? DAKNET ARCHITECTURE >MOBILE ACCESS POINT >INTERNET ACCESS POINT >PUBLIC COMPUTER HOW DAKNET WORKS?? DAKNET IN ACTION BHOOMI INITIATIVE IN INDIA OTHER APPLICATION FUTURE DEVELOPMENT CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
DakNet is an internet service based on the technology

from First Mile Solutions (FMS), which was spun-off from an idea, known as Donkey Net. This idea was featured in the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition. Daknet derives from the Hindi word Dak for postal combines a physical means of transportation with wireless data transfer to extend the internet connectivity that an uplink, a cyber caf or post office provides.

 Daknet offers affordable asynchronous internet access to rural areas.

Daknet uses the wireless technology to provide asynchronous service that include digital messaging, digital documents and e-mail . Daknet solve the last mile problem giving first mile opportunity.

MYTHS AND TRUTH:

Myth: The village telephone is the best model for poor

communities. Truth: Giving everyone access to digital messaging voice mail, digital documents, e-mail, and so on is better than installing a community telephone. Myth: Poor people dont need computers. Truth: The poor not only need digital services, but they are willing and able to pay for them to offset the much higher costs of poor transportation.

WHY DAKNET???
Recently advance in wireless technology ,which make

running copper line to an traditional telephone is far more expensive than wireless broadband internet connectivity. Real time communications need large capital investment and hence high level of user adoption to receiver costs.

 Technologies like store and forward (

asynchronous )modes of communication can be significantly lower in cost to deliver valuable user services. In addition to non real-time applications such as e-mail and voice messaging , providers can use asynchronous modes of communication to create local information repositories that community members can add to and query.

DAKNET ARCHITECTURE

MAP (Mobile access point) Hub(Internet access point ) Kiosk(Public computer)

Mobile Access Point(MAP)

MAP automatically and wirelessly collects and transports data between public kiosks and private communications devices and between kiosks and a hub (for non real time internet access).
Low cost WIFI radio transceivers automatically transfer the data stored in the MAP at high bandwidth for each point- to- point connection.

The total cost of the Daknet MAP equipment used on the bus is $580.

INTERNET ACCESS POINT(HUB)

It is a common connection point for devices in a network which contains multiple ports. It is used to connect segments of a LAN . When the vehicle passes near an internet access point (hub) it synchronizes all the data from different kiosks using the internet.

KIOSK(PUBLIC COMPUTER)
It is a booth providing a computer related service

such as ATM. Kiosk is present in each village and the interface is user friendly. Either directional or omni directional antennas are located at each of the kiosks or hubs. Amplifiers are used to boost the signal and range for higher.

HOW DAKNET WORKS ???

Daknet

combines physical and wireless data transport to enable high- bandwidth intranet and internet connectivity among kiosks and between kiosks and hubs.

Daknet transmits data over short point-to point

links between kiosks and portable storage devices called Mobile Access Points (MAP), mounted and powered on a bus or motorcycle with a small generator.

 As the MAP-equipped vehicle comes within the range of a village wi-fi-enabled kiosk automatically senses the wireless connection and then uploads and downloads 10 mega bytes of data.
When a MAP-equipped vehicle comes within range of an Internet access point (the hub), it automatically synchronizes the data from all the rural kiosks, using the Internet.

DAKNET IN ACTION
Villagers in India and Cambodia are using Daknet with good results. Local entrepreneurs currently are using Daknet connections to make

e-services like e- mail and voice mail available to residents in rural villages.
One of the Daknet is early deployments was as an affordable rural

connectivity solution for the Bhoomi e-governance project in Karnataka.

Daknet is also implemented in a remote province of Cambodia for 15

solar- powered village schools, telemedicine clinics, and a governors office.

SARI (Sustainable Access for Rural India) project of Tamilnadu.

BHOOMI INITIATIVE IN INDIA

Bhoomi, an initiative to computerize the land records

of villagers is the first e-governance project in India.

Bhoomi has been successfully implemented at district

headquarters across the state to completely replace the physical land records system.
Daknet makes Bhoomis land records database

available to villagers 40km away from the district headquarters.

 In this deployment a public bus is outfitted with a

Daknet MAP, which carries the land record requests from each village kiosk to the taluka server. The server then processes the requests and outputs land records. The bus then delivers the records to each village kiosk and the kiosk manager prints the records and collects Rs 15 per record.

BHOOMI INITIATIVE IN INDIA

The Government of Karnataka plans to use Bhoomi as the backbone for providing other kinds of information of relevance to rural areas.

OTHER APPLICATION
INTERNET / INTERNET MESSAGING
INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION &

BROADCASTING INFORMATION COLLECTION RURAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SEARCHING & WEB SERVICE.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
Daknet provide seamless method of upgrading to always on broadband connectivity.

The same hardware, software, and user interface to enjoy real time information access with addition of fixes location wireless antennas and towers and replacement of MAP with fixed transreceivers.
Thus more sophisticated services, such as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is enabled which allows normal real time telephony.

CONCLUSION
Since it avoids using phone lines or expensive equipment, Daknet provides one of the lowest-cost accessibility solutions in the world. In addition to low cost the other feature of Daknet is its ability for upgrading the always-on broadband connectivity. This provides millions of people their first possibility for digital connectivity. Thus daknet is the first mile solution to the last mile problem.

REFERENCES
www.efymag.com www.google.com

www.daknet.net
www.medialabasia.org www.firstmilesolutions.com

IEEE Computer

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