Collaboration@Rural R EPORT ON EXISTING AND LACKING INFRASTRUCTURE S ORIA R URAL L IVING L A B Document identifier: [email protected] Date: 27/02/2007 Work package: 3.2 Partners: TRAGSA, ADEMA WP Lead Partner: HSE Document status Approved Abstract : Description of the existing and needed infrastructures for the deployment of the proposed applications in Soria Rural Living Lab Date: 27/02/2007 Report on existing and lacking infrastructures. Soria rural living lab Project: Collaboration@Rural Doc. Identifier: [email protected] Project information Project acronym: C@R Project full title: Collaboration@Rural Proposal/Contract no.: IST-2006-034921 Project Officer: Olavi Luotonen European Commission DG Information Society and Media Project Officer Address: DG INFSO/F4 J-54 2/48 1049 BRUSSELS Phone: +(32) 2 2954132 Fax: +(32) 2 2969102 E-mail: [email protected] Project Manager: Mariano Navarro de la Cruz Address: C/ Julian Camarillo, 6b, 28037, Madrid, Spain Phone: + 34 91 322 65 21 Fax: + 34 91 322 60 05 E-mail: [email protected] IST-2006-034921 PUBLIC 2 / 23 Date: 27/02/2007 Report on existing and lacking infrastructures. Soria rural living lab Project: Collaboration@Rural Doc. Identifier: [email protected] CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................................4 1.1. PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT .........................................................................................................................4 1.2. BACKGROUND TO THE DOCUMENT .................................................................................................................4 2. GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS....................................................................................................................................5 3. LACKING INFRASTRUCTURES AND SERVICES....................................................................................7 4. EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURES AND SERVICES ...................................................................................8 4.1. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................................................8 4.2. ALMAZÁN ....................................................................................................................................................12 4.3. BAYUBAS DE ABAJO ....................................................................................................................................13 4.4. BAYUBAS DE ARRIBA ..................................................................................................................................14 4.5. BERLANGA DEL DUERO ...............................................................................................................................15 4.6. CUBO DE LA SOLANA ...................................................................................................................................16 4.7. FUENTEPINILLA ...........................................................................................................................................17 4.8. MATAMALA DE ALMAZÁN ...........................................................................................................................18 4.9. QUINTANA REDONDA ..................................................................................................................................19 4.10. TAJUECO ....................................................................................................................................................20 4.11. TARDELCUENDE .........................................................................................................................................21 4.12. VALDERRODILLA .......................................................................................................................................22 4.13. VIANA DE DUERO ......................................................................................................................................23 IST-2006-034921 PUBLIC 3 / 23 Date: 27/02/2007 Report on existing and lacking infrastructures. Soria rural living lab Project: Collaboration@Rural Doc. Identifier: [email protected] 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT The purpose of this document is to describe the existing and lacking infrastructure with respect to the planned RLL in Soria. 1.2. BACKGROUND TO THE DOCUMENT This document gathers the information related to the infrastructure available in those working areas inside the scope of Soria living lab. The intention is to analysis the needed infrastructure for the objectives and development of the services described in the requirements document for Soria living lab and put them in contrast with the existing infrastructure at the moment. After this exercise it will be necessary to evaluate the differences and decide whether the services and requirements could be developed, or if they need to be adapted, modified or even omitted or rejected or what is the way to get the needed and non-existing infrastructure available. Depending on the results of this analysis, a review over the initial requirements must be done, and the needed tasks for the selected non-existing infrastructure deployment must be planned. The study is centre on those infrastructures that could clearly affect directly or indirectly to the development of the mentioned services, so not all the available infrastructures are included in this document. IST-2006-034921 PUBLIC 4 / 23 Date: 27/02/2007 Report on existing and lacking infrastructures. Soria rural living lab Project: Collaboration@Rural Doc. Identifier: [email protected] 2. GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS Soria Living Lab is centre in the working areas mentioned in the requirements document for Soria living lab. Those are: • Almazán. • Bayubas de Abajo • Bayubas de Arriba • Berlanga de Duero. • Cubo de la Solana • Fuentepinilla • Matamala de Almazán • Quintana Redonda • Tajueco • Tardelcuende • Valderrodilla • Viana del Duero These are twelve of the forty eight towns in Almazán region. In the next figure Soria province is represented with the Almazán region delimited and the location of these twelve towns. Figure 1 Regions in Soria involved in C@R IST-2006-034921 PUBLIC 5 / 23 Date: 27/02/2007 Report on existing and lacking infrastructures. Soria rural living lab Project: Collaboration@Rural Doc. Identifier: [email protected] Some of the images included in this document include the complete Almazán region but it is important to stress that although it is probably that in the future all the towns in Almazán region will be included in this living lab, for the time being only the twelve towns mentioned were considered. Nowadays, there are many small localities in Spain which are not provided with enough infrastructures to allow the growth of these areas. These towns are in a clear disadvantage with regard to others urban centres which enjoy of all kind of services provides by the current technological advance. The inhabitants in these small localities feel, somehow, disconnected and isolated from the rest of society. The main national providers don’t find an economic profit bigger enough to consider worthwhile the deployment of infrastructures in these areas. Consequently, in some localities it is difficult not only to get an internet connection (bad connections) but even to get a telephone connection. This living lab was located in the mentioned localities in Soria as an illustration of the towns described on the previous paragraphs. Soria province is located geographical in middle-north of Spain. This area has a really hard orography, with a very mountainous environment which forces population to live in limited areas and small towns. This orography complicates communication infrastructures at all: transportation (roads, railways, etc.) and telecommunication infrastructures (phone, internet, etc.). At present, there are no even infrastructures enough, from the technological points of view that allow the inhabitants in these areas to fully participate in the knowledge-base society. And even in the cases where they are provided with basic telecommunication services, the winter sometimes is so hard that the infrastructures are affected and it lets this population completely isolated. All those inconvenient mean an added risk to the new enterprising when considering the location of their businesses. IST-2006-034921 PUBLIC 6 / 23 Date: 27/02/2007 Report on existing and lacking infrastructures. Soria rural living lab Project: Collaboration@Rural Doc. Identifier: [email protected] 3. LACKING INFRASTRUCTURES AND SERVICES Taking into account the potential application and services to be developed and implemented in Soria Rural Living Lab described in the requirements document, see Requirements for application and platform development. Soria RLL document for more details, it is possible to identify most of the basic infrastructures and services that will be necessaries. This section is intended to document those lacking infrastructures and services classifying them regarding the potential sector that will require it, those are the systems involved in tourist sector, or in e-learning activities or in the promotion of the mycological resources. Of course there are several physical resources and services that will be not only necessary but essential and besides that are common