Assembled — scroll the page to take it apart
KY // Our network
How the network reaches a village
One backhaul, one village, four doors in: homesteads and households, schools, markets and offices, reached along the village roads and kept running by the community itself.
Scroll to follow the signal — the tower comes apart as you go, and comes back together at the end.
01 // Backhaul
A 100 Mbps wireless backhaul lands at the Centre
The backhaul arrives over the air and lands on the tower's dishes and antennas — the first link in the chain, and the one everything else hangs off.
100 Mbps · Cambium wireless
02 // Centre
The gateway and local server turn it into a network
At the Kijiji Yeetu Centre, the gateway and local server turn the backhaul into a network the community itself keeps running — two storeys, the tower standing in the elbow where its two wings meet.
1 Centre · Gateway in Ugunja, run by the community
03 // Village node
A solar-powered smart village node carries it out
From the Centre, a solar-powered node carries the network out to the village — and smaller solar nodes like it reach the far clusters.
Solar node · Powered village node, out to the village
04 // Doors in
Villages, homes, schools, markets
Villages, homesteads and households, schools, offices, groups and the market — reached along the village roads, served by the same backhaul.
4 doors in · Villages, homes, schools, markets
05 // Hotspots
Wireless hotspots, deep in the village
Hotspot poles stand deep in the far clusters, past the Centre — so the villages beyond it stay connected, not just the ones beside it.
4 hotspot poles · Green rings mark the coverage spots
06 // IoT in the farms
Sensor stations beside the fields
Small sensor stations beside the farms watch rain, temperature, humidity and air quality — the same Wittboy sensing the Mtandao Hewani climate work uses — feeding the village dashboard and SMS alerts.
3 sensor stations · One beside each farm plot
07 // Engineers at work
The people who keep it running
Net wardens, smart village champions and grassroots engineers, trained from the community itself — so maintenance is a local job, and a local livelihood. You can see them at work beside the tower, the nodes, the hotspots and the farm sensors.
08 // The whole path
The whole path, in one picture
Backhaul, Centre, village node, and the four doors in — the diagram below is the same journey the tower above carries.
KY // Join the network
Be part of the change
Foundations, companies and individuals all have a role to play. Here is how to join.