A 16-year-old Italian
high school student from the northern province of Asti, Valerio
Pagliarino, has won first prize in this year's European Union
Contest for Young Scientists, the competition announced on
Monday.
Pagliarino prevailed with the LaserWAN project that makes
it possible to take broadband Internet connection to villages
that do not currently have it.
"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," read the abstract.
"LaserWAN is able to bring everywhere 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 distributions plants near to cities (usually provided
of optical fiber networks) to small villages.
"In this way the internet connection is conveyed on the
power lines using laser beams that can replace an optical fiber,
with the same signal quality, without needing to make expensive
excavations.
"LaserWan is a green solution because laser beams does not
emit any kind of EMC pollution".
Pagliarino is one of three contenders to win a 7,000
prize.
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