Infrastructure

Introduction to the Infrastructure category

The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines. (Editors note: extend this).

For the below topics and any others added, each bullet item could be a link to a page with resources.

Communications

Create pages for these:

• Radio
• Cellular communications
• Offline and off-grid networking (WLAN, LoRaWAN, packet radio?)
• Lowtech/notech communication

Water

Suggested pages

• Finding water
• Rainwater systems
• Irrigation systems
• Analysing and testing
• Purifying and filtering
• Storing water
• Transporting water

Electricity

Suggested pages:

• Electronics basics
• Generation
• Storage
• Testing and debugging

Air Conditioning

Suggested pages:

• Air-con self-repair
• Non-electric and pre-industrial aircon
• Testing and improving aircon performance

Useful Tools

List of common tools typically needed for building and repairing infrastructure (include pictures)