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
  • Analysing and testing
  • Purifying and filtering
  • Storing water
  • Transporting water

Electricity

Suggested pages:

  • Electronics basics
  • Generation
  • Storage
  • Testing and debugging

Air Conditioning

Create pages for these:

  • Air-conditioning basics
  • Self-Repair
  • Non-electric and pre-industrial cooling methods

Heating Systems

Useful Tools

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