Along with rescue activities, food supply and humanitarian aid, Personal telecommunications are also an urgent need for the populationespecially for the thousands of people who until now have not been able to contact their family and loved ones. In this situation, ‘Instant Network’ technology comes to the rescue in areas where there is no electricity supply. The system, enabled this Saturday by the Vodafone Foundation, consists of portable equipment, the size of a suitcase, which is capable of offering a self-sufficient portable telephone network and energy to recharge the batteries of smartphones.
The telecommunications company’s technology already allows hundreds of people to contact their families in the locations hardest hit by Dana, with an emergency communications system that has recently been successfully applied in the natural disasters suffered in the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Nepal. , as well as in the floods of Wroclaw (Poland) and the La Palma volcano. In these catastrophic and isolated areas, telecommunications operator provides mobile phone and WiFi service for up to 6,000 users within a 400-meter radius. In addition, the ‘Instant Network’ allows the simultaneous charging of 360 devices through 12 charging units with 30 USB points each.
In this ‘miracle’ of connectivity, Starlink satellites, Elon Musk’s company, also come into play. specialized in providing Internet access in remote areas. In this way, voice and messaging calls are managed via satellite, outside of traditional telephone towers, through a network implementation that only requires eight technicians.
In the case of the Valencian Community, half a dozen ‘Instant Network’ from the Vodafone Foundation traveled last Friday from Germany to go into operation this Saturday in Paiporta, initially in the Town Hall and in the advanced command post of the Red Cross of the Valencian town. And the same has been replicated in Utiel and Montroy, in the locations decided by the Military Emergency Unit.
Julia Velasco, Director of Technology and Operations at Vodafone Spainexplained to elEconomista.es that “the Vodafone Foundation has a team of international volunteers, from different countries, who are trained to work in areas affected by major natural disasters. This equipment houses Wi-Fi access points, with all the electronics necessary to be able to connect them. Apart from the generating sets provided by the operator to power the aforementioned ‘Instant Network’, the technology includes the ‘Instant Charger’, designed “to power many users’ mobile phones simultaneously, both indoors and outdoors, through USB connections,” adds Velasco.
Likewise, adds the technology manager of Vodafone Spain, “this portable system offers immediate connectivity, to operate while the field teams of telecommunications companies work day and night to recover cut fibers and destroyed or destroyed mobile phone towers. very damaged.”
The same directive emphasizes that “once these accessible WiFi access points are put into operation, located where the activities coordination authorities decide, the population is informed about the availability of these access points and battery recharging. It is worth noting that many affected people have not been able to contact family members and notify them about their state of health, something that can be achieved with these communication points to converse via mobile phone as if it were a conventional cellular voice call.
Among other uses, Vodafone Spain sources have also indicated that La Sexta’s special news correspondents have been able to broadcast live thanks to this instant connectivity, without the need for electrical energy. The telecommunications operator also reminds this newspaper that “The instant network has been providing immediate mobile connection since 2011 in more than 25 disaster situations. “This portable emergency equipment, which later gave its name to the entire global initiative, has been specially designed to support organizations that provide aid to populations affected by natural disasters.”
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