Building the Infrastructure

RURALMAYA began in 2005 as a research project of the Technical University of Valencia in Spain. The project intended to develop new information and communication technology to offer low-bandwidth Internet access to isolated rural areas. With this purpose we developed Ruralmaya, an experimental wireless platform which combines the promising paradigm of wireless Mesh networks and cheap off-the-shelf wireless devices to offer a wide range of Internet-based communication services and applications. RURALMAYA has targeted rural areas of the Comunidad Valenciana, in Spain, with increasing demand for Internet connectivity to support the emerging industrial activity and population demands. To date, we deploy the proposed system in a small-scale project on a rural area located on the south of the Comunidad Valenciana which encompasses about 50 subscribers including local industry and villagers.