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Data gathered from a site visit to a proposed internet distribution network installation in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea are interspersed throughout the sections of this paper. Motivation for the IEEE Smart Village (ISV) program is the topic of the introduction. ISV arranged for an assessment of the site by an IEEE volunteer. A volunteer, paper author Alan Mickelson, visited...
Cough sound analysis has attracted interest as a potential low-cost diagnostic tool for low-resource settings, where the burden of pulmonary disease is quite high. However, published results on cough sound analysis are generally limited to specific pulmonary diseases (e.g. detection of Whooping cough — Pertussis) and the study sizes are small. In this paper, we present a general framework for cough...
Existing ad-hoc wireless communications systems are based around Wi-Fi communications, owing to the ubiquity and cost-effectiveness of Wi-Fi; no other open wireless communications channel offers the capabilities and benefits of mass-production consumer markets. However in some situations even long-range directional Wi-Fi links are not suitable. For example Pacific nations spread over island groups...
The Servai Mesh Extender is a low-cost open-source infrastructure-independent telecommunications relay device developed to support telecommunications during and following disasters, as well as in remote and isolated locations. The Mesh Extender has been under development for five years, and is just now transitioning from a primarily University research system, into a mass-producible and deployable...
This paper presents a case study of a university campus in Kiziba refugee camp in Rwanda. It evaluates different aspects of this university as a unique example of education in an extreme environment. The goal is to answer what accommodations, educational and technical, need to be made for a university to function in such extreme environments. In the process, field measurements were made evaluating...
This paper describes a humanitarian healthcare transformation strategy called Whole Person Integrated Care (WPIC). WPIC couples a Spreadsheet-based Software Framework (SSF) and a care delivery model that focus on increasing efficiency and effectiveness through evidence-based knowledge and action. This strategy: 1) integrates “sick care” (treatment of health problems) with “well care” (prevention and...
Brazil has 5.570 cities politically independent and yet entitled to manage urban land, no matter their technical or financial resources for that. Although informal land tenure is commonly associated to major metropolitan areas in Brazil, recent urbanization processes of cities inward the country's territory has led to informal land occupation of entire central districts. Informality is defined, in...
The UN Millennium Development Goals have in recent years understood and emphasized the critical connection between rural poverty and health issues, and lack of any or proper electrification. Although Indian village electrification has been a priority for the government for a number of years, it is a huge task given the millions of households residing in rural areas. Further, not all claims of village...
The Servai Mesh and new Serval Mesh Extender 2.0 low-cost, weather-proof, open-source, infrastructure-communications device is being piloted in Vanuatu during 2017 with the support of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trades Pacific Humanitarian Challenge. This pilot will test the applicability and utility of the Serval Mesh software and hardware in one of the world's most disaster-prone...
In May 2017, the Project Haiti team of two faculty and eleven students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, working together with a professor and translator from the Universite d'Etat d'Haiti, designed and installed a solar-powered water purification system in the village of Drouin, Artibonite Department, Haiti. This region has been at the epicenter of the post-2010 cholera...
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