The WiFi Mountain project, carried out by the Marconi Foundation and financed by the Monte di Bologna e Ravenna Foundation,  started in 2009 with the aim of improving the conditions of citizens and enterprises living in the territory of the Bolognese mountains. The project has created a telecommunication infrastructure and installed repeaters able to transmit wireless signals throughout the area, allowing the access to a fast internet connection.

During these years the number of territories connected to the Internet through this project has grown a lot, helping them overcome their previous  digital divide.

On Friday, October 31, at 10.30am, the lecture hall of the High School “Caduti della Direttissima” (via Toscana 21, Castiglione dei Pepoli) will host a conference to analyze the result of these years of activities, listen to the administrators of all the territories involved, and discuss other topics such as the recent acquisition of the telecommunication network by Lepida Spa, and the future developments and possibilities of WiFi Mountain. 

programme

• 10:30  Maurizio Fabbri, Mayor of Castiglione dei Pepoli
• 10:40  Integration between WiFi Mountain network and Lepida network: how to improve the service. Gianluca Mazzini, Lepida SpA General Manager
• 11:00  Report on one year of activity. Alessandro Aiello, Acantho SpA Business Director
• 11:20  Opinions from the Town Halls
• 12:00  “Galassia Marconi”: tools to understand and spread the digital world. Gabriele Falciasecca, President of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

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WiFi Mountain

At the 2014 edition of the usual SAIE exhibition (Bologna, 22-25 October) a stand will be set to present the activities of the groups belonging to the Villa Griffone Research Center.

On the 23 of October, at 2.00pm, in the Meucci hall, a conference will be held to explain the technical and architectural aspects involved in the implementation of intelligent and advanced systems for energy consumption management EMS (Energy Management System), based on the use of IoT (Internet of Things) technologies. The Ugo Bordoni Foundation and Consorzio Elettra 2000 will join the conference. 

Saturday, the 4^th of October, in the scope of the third Convention of the HamRadioWEB that was had in Villa Griffone, a presentation was projected on PowerPoint concerning the historical sites and relative events of the Italian Commemorative Marconian Stations that joined the C.S.M.I.

• IYØGA Capo Figari - Golfo Aranci (OT)

• IYØIMD Forte Michelangelo - Civitavecchia (RM)

• IYØORP Osservatorio Geofisico di Rocca di Papa (RM)

• IY1MR Rapallo (GE)

• IY1SP Museo Tecnico Navale - La Spezia

• IY1TTM Tigullio Torre Marconi - Sestri Levante (GE)

• IY4FGM Villa Griffone - Pontecchio Marconi (BO)

• IY5PIS Coltano (PI)

• IY6GM Monte dei Cappuccini - Ancona

• IY7M Molo San Cataldo (BA)

• IYØKHP e IØKHP/IMD (alla MEMORIA Patrizio S.K. 2012)

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