The Microsoft Airband Initiativ e advances digital equity—access to affordable internet, affordable devices, and digital skills—as a platform for empowerment and digital transformation across the world.

AirJaldi began partnering with the Microsoft Airband initiative in 2016 , when it received a grant to expand its work bringing internet access to more people in India, primarily in underserved rural areas. Our joint work has grown since and encompasses joint effrots to expand the reach and offerings of AirJaldi's netwroks throughout India. 

In addition to connectivity, the AirJaldi and Airband teams are cooperating on developing suitable offerings to rural areas in areas of women empowerment, economic development, IoT for rural areas and introduction of technological soluitons to rural internet operations. 

Access to broadband means access to opportunity. Microsoft's Airband team supports AirJaldi's efforts to provide meaningful connectivity across India

Microsoft Airband partners with AirJaldi to connect rural India

AirJaldi began using public WiFi hotspots in rural areas in 2014. We were looking for ways to provide poeple, mostly in underserved and unserved rural areas with cheap and easy access to broadband services. In 2015, we became the first global partners of Facebook's Express WiFi (XWF) initiative, which shared similar aimes. Together we developed a technical and economic delivery model and served over 300,000 users in hundereds of locations in northern and easternd India. AirJaldi still operates hotspot services in select rural areas in Mahrashtra and Madhya Pradesh, under our own brand - JaldiFi. 

You can read more about the project in an article published about it in the New York Times, here . 

Between 2015 and 2019, AirJaldi worked closely with Facebook's Express WiFi initiative to develop a public WiFi hotspot solution for rural areas

Public WiFi hotspots in rural areas - AirJaldi and Facebook's XWF 

The TellTale project was conceived with aim of addressing the problem of measurement and projection of the power uptime duration of wireless internet relays. In rural areas and in areas where such projections are not available, operators often fail to address downtimes in a timely manner, thereby increasing the number and duration of downtimes and/or fail to project the power needs of a relay properly. These issues have direct adverse economic consequences for both providers and users. 

In order to address this, AirJaldi, with support From ISIF Asia, created the “Airjaldi Power TellTale” system, a system is capable of measuring battery voltage and generating indicators and alerts based on the its change over time. TellTale consists of affordable power sensors, data uplink, cloud storage and analysis repository, and a web and android-based user interface. 

The product is presently offered as an open source tool. Support on adapting and deploying the system is also available based on a fremium model. 

Resources materials and more Information about the project can be found here airjaldirbb/airjaldi-telllate · GitHub 

An open-source power monitoring and alerting system for relays and other network components

AirJaldi Power TellTale

 Earthquakes are hard to forecast, and when they arrive, every second of forewarning is crucial. AirJaldi is teaming with SeismicAI , an innovative earthquake early warning (eew) solution provider, in installing, providing uplink connectivity and maintaining early warning sensors arrays in various locations in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. We are planning to expand our joint work into additional states in India, in particular around the volatile Himalayan region.

Airjaldi supports SeismicAI, an innovative EEW company, in setting up and connecting sensor systems in rural Uttarkhand

Earthquake Early Warning System

 Beginning in 2017, around August 15th, India’s independence day, our team members across India take some time off the daily work and plant trees in and around the areas we work in, often in partnership with local forest departments, schools and other organizations. We feel it is one of the best ways to celebrate India's independence day and show that our commitment to its sustainability and growth goes beyond broadband connectivity. We plan to expand this activity further in the coming years.   

Every year, our teams across India plant trees in areas close to our networks

Trees, trees

We engage in project work that contributes to connectivity and related services within the environments we work in