Opinion: Carlos Lei, co -founder and general director of UPLINK

Seeing Spaniards, Portugal and France recently? Sure, millions lost their power. It was a collapse of communication, showing how shortbread lines become frail when power dies.

Don’t think for a moment, it’s just a European problem. The same script takes place. Endless power of South Africa. Pakistan’s great darkening in 2023. Then in 2021 it was a crazy Texas. Another time, residents in Houston melted snow from roofs in a bucket to rinse the toilets throughout the week. Most people did not have heat at zero temperatures, and the power and telephones were completely inaccessible. It was an unforgettable lesson about how low -down systems can be.

Arduous right? A significant part of this basic infrastructure is old, never designed for today’s always developing data. Now he moans under the voltage of the renewable energy of energy sources and the explosion of digital demand – the global energy consumption of the technology sector is on the right track double By 2030, that’s why definitions – decentralized physical infrastructure networks – change from a niche experiment to critical necessity for everyone in the blockchain space.

Think decentralized with the facilitate of depine

The industry must be smarter. You need immunity here and begins with community, not only top -down.

This is where the depina enters as a real solution, especially to keep us all. Depin technology uses Blockchain and other key tools to coordinate the community’s efforts in building and conducting infrastructure in the real world-online networks are a great example. Instead of one vast company holding all keys, imagine a network driven by thousands, millions of people and companies dividing what they have – their WI -FI routers, maybe some space for storage or setting diminutive, novel elements of equipment.

And do not think that the depine only applies to the Internet. It also has great energy potential. Consider your area, which share solar energy from roofs or local battery storage management through their own diminutive mesh. This is true energy independence, closer to the house and less dependent on these vast, distant power plants and their shaky lines.

What is so wonderful in decentralization? It massively reduces the risk of one centralized failure point and prohibits everything else. If one part of the Depin network has a problem, other devices can usually find a way to maintain a local effect. It is people who build their own safety network, make access more fair and maintain the necessary services alive when the giants stumble.

Depin in the real world

This is not a cake idea. It is there, it works now. Take Dharamsala, India. Tibetan banished, directed to incredible power, ingeniously built a wireless network of grid made of scrap metal to stay in touch. Is the red hook in Brooklyn after Sandy’s hurricane? Their local net was a lifestyle when everything else was inaccessible. It’s more than nice anecdotes. They prove that this technology appears in crisis.

Last: Countries must add depin tokens to their digital assets

Most of the time, the best way to move is a mixture. Decentralized technology does not have to replace everything; It can join forces with existing systems and hinders. OpenRoaming is a great example – it connects to over 3 million routers and uses the management of identifiers with automatic WI -FI connections, so you can jump on hotspots around the world without confusion. This is a kind of teamwork that the industry needs, and it is a standard in which everyone is.

Initiatives such as OpenRoaming can be done even further. A decentralized wireless approach (motto), built on the principles of depine, can facilitate mapping and confirm these existing hotspots, making them more detectable and reliable. In addition, Devia can expand this federal access, integrating countless additional access points of communities and supported, which are not part of the initial openroaming network. This can effectively expand the gaps within reach and fill. It is the power of the decentralized layer – by increasing and expanding the set standards.

Just think: another massive storm strikes, cell towers are falling. Local Depin network, with some routers regarding the power of backups or simply talking to each other, can be the only way people come out, find critical information or organize facilitate. Do you have this option? This makes a huge difference when everything else is offline.

Time to act, not just a reaction

These blackout? They can’t just be a message that people forget about during the week. They must be a real awakening. For anyone who participates in maintaining the necessary services – regardless of whether you are in the government, directing a vast company or planning cities – it’s time for a uncomplicated conversation: betting on a farm in purely centralized systems is a recipe for a disaster. Real resources and brain force must be transferred to decentralized approaches, such as depin. This is not about a futuristic add -on. It is about building the base of immunity that people need.

What is the first move? Governments can open the door wider to make these novel approaches to descent from the ground. Telecommunications suppliers and enterprises? Time to be artistic. Look seriously at weaving of decentralized nodes – social routers, mesh backups – to existing network plans. Support for public-private partnership in order to build a common Depin infrastructure in challenging places makes sense to everyone.

For all of us, the goal must be to build failure systems with many layers. Mix the range of established networks with devotional resistance of decentralized. This is not negotiating for sectors such as transport, healthcare and emergency services.

Let’s stop treating communication as a secondary problem. This is a critical infrastructure as vital as the ruler. Representation concerns the security, survival of the community and the basic function when a disaster appears. Creating a future free from these widespread failure of communication requires cooperation between the ancient guard and a novel decentralized movement. It is high time for everyone to harden their digital life lines before the next crisis appears.

Opinion: Carlos Lei, co -founder and general director of UPLINK.

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