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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 22 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 Wi-Fi as technology has inherent features which are suitable for providing access to internet connectivity in a smart village. To provide connectivity in a smart village, the technology we choose must have following features: • Very low CAPEX & OPEX. • Scalability must be easy and with the least amount of investments. • Easy to maintain the technology at local level as maintenance cost is recurring. • The available ecosystem of the devices to connect for the internet connectivity. If villagers require to buy new devices, then they should not be reluctant to do so. • Wi-Fi being unlicensed technology is most suitable to meet all the above requirements for a smart village. Two examples of implementation are described below: Public Wi-Fi Hotspot at the Government / post office building: maintaining the Public Wi-Fi infrastructure in the Government or post office is easy as it provides a safe place with security and constant power supply. Villagers travel to Government office to get subsidies, to get their land record update, to register a newborn child, to register marriage, to register death, to understand new schemes launched by the government, etc. They visit the post office to send or receive letters. Post offices also allow the opening of bank accounts and can sometimes function as hubs for financial transactions in villages across India. Public Wi-Fi hotspots in and around the office buildings help villages to get this information faster. Villagers can also access this information online to save time. Enabling Village Level Entrepreneurship using Wi-Fi network: Wi-Fi enables interesting use cases in the smart village scenario. For example, villagers typically use bicycles on their local commute. Those having to visit nearby farms or village also use motor cycles. People with increased economic status also prefer motor cycles. Cars which are generally considered a luxury in these countries require a regular maintenance as they move on non-concrete roads. These maintenances are generally performed by local mechanics with limited expertise. In towns/cities, we find authorized repair/maintenance stores for such activity. But having such full-fledged facility in a village is not sustainable due to the cost of establishing such infrastructure and creating a business model out of it due to low number of vehicles. Now there is a use case where using Wi-Fi network (suitably Wi-Fi 6) can enable a local mechanic with little expertise to provide service at par with authorized stores. Here, the expert sitting in the authorized store can help the local mechanic to repair the motorbike or car remotely with the help of Augmented Reality over robust Wi-Fi network streaming the images to the remote expert for their opinion and help. Here, we are solving the local issues and creating employment opportunities. This investment in the Wi-Fi network helps the bike / car owner in many ways, from building trust with customers, to building brand recognition, to maintaining the life of vehicle and making a business case.