Estudio de Factibilidad Para Implementar Plataformas Tecnológicas Que Mitiguen las Necesidades Básicas Insatisfechas de la Comuna 4, Cazucá, del Municipio de Soacha

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to perform the feasibility study for the deployment of technology platforms of social impact aimed at mitigating "unsatisfied basic needs (UBN)" (Feres, Mancero, 1999), in the population of zone 4, Cazuca, in the Soacha’s municipality regarding platforms such as infrastructure and services provided in the areas of: education (learning virtual classrooms, virtual library of knowledge), citizenship security (security cameras) and health (telemedicine); making use of the advantages of networks based on IP technologies, which facilitate the management and integration of services and applications to be carried over optical fiber-based networks. Such networks being a resource of paramount importance in matters of implementation of telecommunication services due to its characteristics in distances terms, transmission speed, ease of deployment, low susceptibility to external interference and optimization of the transmission medium by means of carrying multiple services through a single optical fiber strand. It is imperative to note that the medium transmission used is deployed by the Soacha’s Town Hall in a strategic fashion through a twelve-thread ring topology, which interconnects the six zones of the municipality using less than 30% of the implemented infrastructure. The development of this project focuses primarily on the population living in zone 4 in the Soacha’s municipality, known as Cazuca, in order to mitigate the social gap through free-of-charge, easily-accessible quality services that enable social inclusion. This community presents a number of problems associated with unsatisfied basic needs such as extreme poverty, school dropout and illiteracy, violence and small-scale drug trafficking, to name a few, which increase with the arrival of families displaced by the Colombian’s armed conflict. In this context and, in order to achieve the objectives set in the project, it is necessary to analyze the needs, expectations and the scope projected by the Soacha’s Town hall and the community, through which the needs and services to implement will be defined so as to meet the Stakeholder’s expectations. Taking into consideration that the fiber optic network of the Soacha’s municipality was deployed in 2014 and its design and implementation was carried out under the site survey studies requirements to determine the status of the current network and modifications deemed necessary for operation.