Green WiFi Mission : Solar Powered Internet Access

The biggest hinderance to growth of wifi and broadband access in developing countries is poor infrastructure, cost and electricity issues. Green WiFi aims to providing solar powered web access to developing nation K-12 school children.

“Green WiFi has developed a low cost, solar-powered, standardized WiFi access solution that runs out-of-the-box with no systems integration or power requirements. All that is required is a single source of broadband access. Green WiFi nodes can then be deployed on rooftops to form a self-healing network that hops the source signal over a virtual 802.11b/g grid.”

Check out the Green Wi-Fi site aiming to bring Internet access to schools in developing countries via cheap, solar-powered Wi-Fi networks. You might also like to read about Roofnet, an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network in development at MIT CSAIL which provides broadband Internet access to users in Cambridge.