Valerio Pagliarino, a 16-year-old Italian high school student from the province of Asti (Piedmont), has won first prize in this year's European Union Contest for Young Scientists. Pagliarino prevailed in the field of computing with a project titled "LaserWAN: laser broadband Internet connection" that helps take broadband Internet connection to villages in digital divide areas.
A green solution to bridge the digital divide
LaserWAN is a revolutionary technology that uses the infrared rays, emitted by specific lasers, to convey a high speed internet connection even to the most isolated places in the world, deleting the digital divide. LaserWAN is able to bring a 500 Mbit/s internet connection mounting special transceivers on the top of pylons of high tension lines which bring the electric power from the power distribution plants nearest to the small villages.
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