Projects of GTR PUCP

1. ICT R&D in a Developing Country:
GTR-PUCP Experience.
CESAR CORDOVA BERNUY
Rural Telecommunications Group

2. Founded in 1998, GTR-PUCP is a group of
professors, professionals, current and graduated
students and researchers dedicated to the
development and promotion of the rural
telecommunications in Latin America.
We are an organization formed and supported
on the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering of
PUCP into the field of Telecommunications.

3. We are a multidisciplinary team committed to the
research, development, application, analysis, evaluation
of impact and promotion of Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT), which contribute
to the improvement of the standard of living of marginal
communities, which have none or limited access to
communication media, with emphasis in those located in
the rural environment.

4. Our goal is to become one of the leaders in development of
appropriate and innovative low-cost technological solutions in
the field of rural telecommunications and to be recognized
national and internationally as a reference in the areas of
Information and Communications Technologies for human
development.

5. At the begining
It was an initiative of GBT-UPM, joined PUCP and
formed a researching laboratory on low cost
rural telecommunications.
There was a technological transference from GTB-
UPM to GTR-PUCP
At the begining GTR-PUCP was supported by:
- Hispanic American Health Link (EHAS)
- Politechnical University of Madrid (UPM)
- NGO Engineering Without Borders (ISF)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)

6. Now we are partners on EHAS Foundation.
We've replicated the experience and also we've
done technological transference to other
institutions like:
- National University San Antonio Abab of Cusco
(UNSAAC) – Peru
- National University of Ica (UNICA) - Peru
- Private Technical University of Loja (UTPL) -
Now
Ecuador
- NGO ITDG through CEDECAP in Cajamarca -
Peru
Our purpose is to develop technical expertise in
different zones of intervention in different levels.
We make training and workshops on wireless
technologies.

9. Research and development of
appropriate telecommunications
technologies for the rural areas.
Execution of social responsibility
projects in the university;
Exercising and strengthening of
academic teaching, inside and outside
of our university.
Technical training for universities,
social organizations, enterprises,
workers and final users of ICT.

10. Developed by EHAS partners and
mainly based on radiocommunication
and free software
WiFi
Embeded
system
Linux Voyage

12. •No line of sight
•Hundreds km
•Easy
implementation
•Depends on the
ionosphere
condition
•Low speed
system 2400bps

14. •Line of sight with
some obstacules
•Few Hundreds km
•Easy
implementation
•Low speed system
9600 bps

17. Repeater San Rafael
Napo river, Peru
Repeater Don Juan, Cusco Peru 2008
Router (Alix board with Linux Voyage GTR operating system),
photovoltaic system, Internet access, voIP

18. ROUTER VOYAGE GTR
•Wireless router outdoor
•For long distance
WiFi system
•Low energy consumption, under 10
W (can be fed with a solar panel of
50 Wp)
• Low cost.
•Support 802.11abg (1, 2 ó 3
wireless interfaces)
•Asterisk (VoIP server) incorporated
•Interface web for easy basic
configuration
•SNMP
•Dinamic routing (OSPF)
•Security (WPA2-PSK)
•QoS

19. Network configuration and
voIP test

20. GTR-PUCP develops its work in areas
located in rural zones with difficult
access and with no energy sources but
the natural ones.
Then, we have developed our own
solutions in order to use our
technologies with the available power
sources.

21. Solar panels mounted
near the top of the tower.
Angoteros, Napo river
Peru
Solar panels built into the
roof.
Don Juan repeater, Cusco
Peru

22. Solar panels and
Bateries
Loboyacu health
post, Pastaza
River

23. New lines of Research
• 802.11n under test
• Wimax technologies
• Remote surveillance systems for
telecommunication infrastructure.
• Fentocells and Low cost GSM mobile telephony:
Open software solutions: Open BTS + GNUradio +
Asterisk, over USRP Hardware

24. New lines of Research An ideal scenario: 802.11 backhaul and
GSM Cell on the access networks

25. GTR-PUCP works in two programs related to
millennium developments goals.
- EHAS program on e-health
- Willay program on e-government

26. GTR-PUCP is founder and member of the Hispanic-
American Health Network (EHAS for its initials in
Spanish) consortium, conformed by more than 10
universities and institutions in America and Europe.
We develop projects which involve ICT in health
and social development in general.
The main objetive is to employ appropiated
telemedicine systems for rural primary health care
(low cost and adapted to local needs)

27. GTR-PUCP and the NGO ISF ApD in 2006 founded
the WILLAY program. Its objective: Improving the
local democratic governability of public entities such
as municipal governments, education, health and
inclusion of minorities from the rural zones of Peru.
The word “Willay” comes from the family language
of quechua, and means “communicate”. That is the
original purpose of the program.
Associates: ISF, UNSAAC, SP-ITDG and GTR-PUCP

28. We work with government institutions and
beneficiaries to raise awareness about the use of
ICTs
We involve beneficiaries in the process of
designing, implementing, care, maintenance and
repair systems for sustainability.
There is a continuous work on organizational
changes

29. There are local contributions from the province
government, the local councils and the
communities
Training activities in the use and maintenance
of ICT’s

30. AECI
The objective of this project was
to improve the health conditions of
the Peruvian population from the
Amazon rainforest in Loreto,
providing electric energy, data and
voice communication to the chosen
health centers in the province of Alto
Amazonas.

31. Project which involved the installation of
EHAS Stations, offering remote training
services and improvement of health
processes in 6 health
establishments in Peru (North of
the Province of Alto Amazonas)
and 6 in Colombia (Indigenous
Reserve of Guambia).
In total, 69 EHAS stations
were installed in the
provinces of Alto Amazonas
and Datem del Marañon.

32. The objective of this project is to
demonstrate that primary health assistance
services in rural zones of Latin America are
possible through the development of adequate
ICT.
Three pilot projects were implemented in
Peru, Colombia and Cuba, as a result we had a
decreasing number in emergency evacuations
and the improvement of the patient references
system and the epidemiologic surveillance
system.

33. Pilot project which aimed to
evaluate the institutional and technical
viability of telemedicine services such
as stethoscophy, cardiology and
dermatology in the Cuzco network,
which was implemented through the
EHAS-@LIS Project.

35. Location of health posts and
repeaters in the Cuzco network
Aplicación: Radiomobile

36. Project of epidemiologic surveillance of
malaria in borderline zones of the Andean
region, approved by The World Found
through the subproject “Data and voice
communication networks in health centers
of the border zone Peru-Ecuador”
(RECOVODA), which consists in the
establishment of data and voice
telecommunication networks for 29 stations
in Peru and 12 in Ecuador in the rural zones
and frontiers.

37. 08
Maternal-child health
improvement
2008 - 2009

38. Napo’s Network ~ 445 km
Probably the chain multihop 802.11 based longest network of the world

39. Napo’s Network ~ 445 km
Probably the chain multihop 802.11 based longest network of the world
16 towers
Heights of the towers
are between 45 to 90
meters
The distances are
between 16 and 49 km
The banwith from
Iquitos to Cabo
Pantoja is 2 to 3 Mbps
Use of embeded
routers with linux
voIP, internet acces, …

40. Segment network
NAPO NETWORK

41. Repeater station diagram, for equipments mounted
on the top of the tower.
NAPO NETWORK

42. Client station LAN conecction diagram.
NAPO NETWORK

43. Power and electrical protection systems
for a client station
NAPO NETWORK

44. Power system and electrical protection system Diagram
NAPO NETWORK

45. Latin American Wireless Network Meeting For Rural Areas
•Training in wireless technologies
•On February 2008 more than 40
partipants
Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia,
Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Republica
Dominicana, Spain, Uruguay, Peru.
Developed in Cuzco-Peru
-This year a new training
-Financed by UPM
2008 and 2010

46. •Implementation of
Acomayo Network I
and II.
•It’s parallel to
Health’s Network .in
Cuzco
•Internet, telephony
and other services to
local institutions:
municipalities,
education, health and
police.
•Redundance link and
OSPF
2007 -2008 Acomayo I
2009-2012 Acomayo II

47. SP-ITDG-CEDECAP Centers Network
•Three centers in different regions of
Peru
UNSAAC-CEDITER •Training and dissemination in ICTs
for technicians and workers of public
PUCP-GTR institutions
•Demostration centers in rural
telecommunication
2009 - 2011

48. MORE
INFORMATION
http://gtr.telecom.pucp.edu.pe
http://www.ehas.org
http://www.willay.org.pe

49. Cesar Cordova
cdcordova@pucp.edu.pe