Strategies For Developing Climate Resilient Communication Infrastructure

Understanding the Risks of Climate Change on Communication Infrastructure

Discuss about the Risk Mitigation Strategies for Critical Infrastructures.

Effective communication network requires proper support (communication infrastructure) to achieve transfer of information from one person to another. Communication infrastructure failure can cause failure to multiple users. With the development of communication infrastructure, there are several developments that the SEQ have adapted. Such events include ICT, cloud computing to mention a few. The investment of SEQ in all these network communication infrastructures is an appreciated move. The move is expected to drive potential greater business efficiency within the region (Webster et al., 2017).

However, there exists a gap. Very little work exploits the risks of climate change into the communication infrastructures. Climate changes issues cause vulnerability to most communication infrastructure. The climate change should, therefore, be strategized as an adaptation that will have impact on the communication infrastructure.

Communication infrastructure like tower structures, cables, and service providers are affected by climate change. The adaptability programs must, therefore, consider a way in which these infrastructures are not affected by climate as a way of endorsing adaptability (Donaubauer, Meyer & Nunnenkamp 2016).

Some of the problems are defined as follows;

• Inadequate supply of infrastructure leading to poor network coverage
• Heavily reliant on energy infrastructure
• Limited spectrum capacity in urban areas.
• Any damages to the communication grid can result in widespread service interruptions, thereby effecting community functioning and emergency services.
• Delay in receiving disaster and emergency information due to lack of high-speed communication infrastructure.
• Service interruptions and physical interruptions

Some wireless infrastructure is part of communication infrastructure. The wireless communication systems are interrupted by the temperatures. Temperature is an element of climate change. The density of the wireless mast is likely to become sub-optimal. The suboptimal pole is realized upon very high or very low-temperature changes. This is because the poles are dependent on refractive indexes that effortlessly shifts with even slightest shifts in temperature.

Goal: Preventing service and physical interruptions caused by climatic change.

The primary goal is to develop climate change resilient communication infrastructure that cannot be affected by climatic elements like temperature.

The objective is to ensure that there are not any physical or service interruptions of communication caused by the change in climate.

Another objective is to provide communication services continuously without being interrupted by any weather and climatic conditions.

For this issue, some practices can be adapted to ensure the goals is achieved. The strategies are discussed below;

Approach one Adapting the 5g wireless internet communication. The 5G system is less vulnerable to temperature changes. It is, therefore, the best strategy to use. This is because 5g internet connection is less exposed to pressure from any harsh weather or climatic changes (Stergiopoulos, Kotzanikolaou, Theocharidou & Gritzalis 2015).

The climatic stress caused by changes in temperature do not interfere with 5G masts. Even with highly frequent climatic changes, the system can remain resilient to a period of past ten years. Adaptation of the 5G network ensures that there is consistent service provision.

Goals and Objectives of Developing Climate Resilient Communication Infrastructure

The 5G broadband system has worked in Britain. The country invested in 5G services and applied it as a way of enhancing communication that supersedes climatic interferences. This strategy was released in 2016.

The country adopted these strategies with the assumption that all telecommunications users will take the change. The British infrastructure group also provided all the support that was needed. The Member of Parliament as political leaders was in the forefront of ensuring that the program was endorsed. It was now easier to unroll the plan to the public.

The country, however, had an advantage since most of the communication service providers were using the 4G broadband. Although the 4G cannot traverse climatic changes, it is easier to upgrade it to 5G broadband (Laugé, Hernantes & Sarriegi, 2015).

The best methodology that can be used to achieve the adaptability that was used in Europe is the Cambridge communication Assessment model. The approach allows any network users to access communicated information without interference from any weather or climatic condition. The method also provides for proper management decisions (Varatharajan, Manogar & Priyan, 2018).

The advantage of these strategies over the other is that, apart from just weather and climatic effectiveness, it is not affected by migration. Any operation works within the set area that is designated to work from. For instance, if adopted in SQE, it will operate all over the region that it is supposed to. The strategy also can be used against future demand scenarios. That means that when communication users increase, the service adjusts to fit in the new levels (Singh, Mishra, Ali, Shukla & Shankar, 2015).

The only assumption that might work as a disadvantage of the strategy is that it is affected by the number of users. If the demand goes high and the users become many, there would be saturation. Saturation exposes the 5G masts to vulnerability risks, therefore, causing network disruptions. If this will be the climatic adaptation, the region must focus on a way of maintaining the same population or lower number of users.

Some of the earlier infrastructures have been used for quite a long time. The satellites that were developed in the early years have cease to be useful any more. A new infrastructure that takes few years to be installed when using a satellite is required. If the moon works better, then another technological support can be added on to it that is not affected by climatic and harsh weather conditions.

Strategies for Developing Climate Resilient Communication Infrastructure

An initiative that encourages the use of intelligent products for purposes of communication. Smart products are technologically made products that are designed to perform different functions. These machines that include smartphones, smart laptops, quick emails and many others are designed so that they are not affected by weather or climatic changes.

The adaptation of, when taken seriously, can help in solving the communication infrastructure debacle for more than ten years. However, the only challenge to this strategy is that the smart products are expensive (Thota, Sundarasekar, Manogaran, Varatharajan & Priyan, 2018).

 When the SQE adapts this strategy for the coming generation, they shall have been closer to achieving the objective of providing uninterrupted communication services to the SQE region (Priyan et al., 2018).

Collaboration and data sharing for all authorities and platform.  When the communication platform is shared as a strategy, it is easy to know when an error occurs because of a climatic cause, and react to it as soon as possible. When one group is isolated from the other, they quickly take advantage of the communication interferences of another group. For example, it is likely possible that the private owner’s platform redirects the public usage portal to be affected by the climate (Calderón, Moral?Benito & Servén, 2015).

There is a massive turnover on the number of people who use technology to communicate. These, therefore, make network usage the most used mode of communication. To improve these systems, the network infrastructure should be the one to be changed first. Adapting next generation network system of communication network will widen the scope of users. This will help in achieving the goal of making sure everyone communicates equitable and effectively without climate change caused problem (Pescaroli & Alexander, 2015).

West Sussex believed in investing in the next-generation network.  This was a solution towards their problem in providing complete network coverage for all its users. They adopted different methods of doing this that include adapting the universal mobile telecommunication system, packet transmission and public switched communication data (Zio 2016).

The existing communication networks before the adaptation of the new ones served well. However, they did not reach a massive number of people and were easily disrupted by even slight weather changes. They had an existing switcher telephone where signals and network were vertically integrated and systems designed for personal services (Norris, Allen, Evan, Zelinka, O’Dell & Klein, 2016). The access to local loops from customers or network users would lead to switching nodes to another area where there is less flogging (Matthews, Lo & Byrne, 2015).

Conclusion

With the development of necessity, they developed the new architectural data transmission that is accessible by all without discrimination even with the presence of harsh climatic conditions. The adaptation of new generation networks had better impacts on communication infrastructure (Cassis, Luca & Florio, 2016). 

The networks work based on multiplexing. Each realized connection is assigned its path and destination. Voice transfers are assigned switching nodes which act as breaking points for each communication message (Li et al 2017).

The new generation networks are manifold and act as independent networks. They have a bottleneck capacity and performance. Each of the networks has their control and management plane. It also provides independent services to the users. These systems are advantageous since the failure of one doesn’t affect other network users. The communication therefore flows and continues even with climatic barriers (Knaap & Oosterhaven, 2017).

These strategies and policy assume that the voice and the sent messages are supposed to go through different paths. The destinations must also be various. The new generation network, therefore, presents a disadvantage when the communication message is meant for the same goal and the same path. In that case, the system will have to delay in case there exist a climatic interference (Kazmierczak et al., 2015).

Strategy 2: low power extensive area network. This method ensures that low powers are used while a broad spectrum of area is covered. When the full field is included, it, therefore, means that many people have access to communication resources. It is then easier for many people to communicate even with climatic challenges. This program thus helps to achieve the first objective (Ginter et al., 2014).

Strategy 3: Using high-quality materials for infrastructure construction. Use of steel when constructing physical communication infrastructures. Cables made of steel can traverse any weather conditions. Therefore, for communication infrastructures that are to be placed in the harsh climatic conditions, it is preferred that they are made of steel than any other materials (Martinich et al., 2015).

Strategy 4: Involve the communication experts. The experts’ involvement makes it easier for implementation of the objectives. Experts efficiently analyze the situations and can provide a lasting solution for the same (Matthews, Lo & Byrne, 2015).

Cloud computing is a technological paradigm that enables access to shared pools of configurable system resources. Rapidly provisioned management effort is preferred than physical infrastructure. Cloud computing easily allows communication to happen quickly with little resources. The process enables fluctuating and unpredictable demands that might occur in future (Klein, 2016).

Sanimax leverages cloud computing to hosting drive agility and efficiency on climate change.

The company invested in cloud computing and hosting instead of using cables that are susceptible to harsh climate conditions. The company, therefore, modernized its infrastructure. (Sussams, Sheate and Eales, 2015).

The advantage of the system is that it takes lower costs. The installation is more comfortable and much faster than physical setup. There is also an ease in creation of project and portfolio management application. A hybrid approach even has more advantage since it takes a longer time and can accommodate up to very many users (Waage et al., 2016).

The communication companies in SQE region should be forced into this policy by the government authorities.  This will see the adaptation to the climate change successful.

Strategy 2: Use of high-quality resilient infrastructure. These infrastructures are durable. The first objective will therefore be achieved.

Strategy 3: Integration of physical infrastructure with other system. Systems such as internet of things so that when one fails it easier to use another even during the climatic change period (Burton, 2015).

Strategy 4: Use of high-quality materials during the constructions of communication infrastructure.

Goal: To make communication independent of other sectors.

Objectives: making the communication sector free from the dependency of the energy and transport sector.

Strategy one: Investing in sustainable environmental practices (Toole, Klocker & Head, 2016).

Invested heavily in sustainable communication infrastructure. The company partnered with transport companies that only used non- pollution transport facilities to place communicating devices (Heymann, 2015).

One of the policies that helped in accomplishing this strategy was the completion of missing links in the sidewalk system. The success of the company was based on a wide range social consultation with like-minded companies. The planners, therefore, worked closely with the communication planners to reduce dependency. The challenge arises with the existence of a multimodal communication network. The SQE can use the same to achieve climatic adaptation for the next decade (Norris, Allen, Evan, Zelinka, Dell, & Klein, 2016).

The report, therefore, seeks to find out how the climate change adaptation by the SQE has had an impact on communication structure. The report further gives issues that are considered majorly to have effects on the communication infrastructure. The story also develops each point to goal and objectives that the SQE group in charge of climate change adaptation should look forward to achieving if the adjustment should lead to any future benefits. The report, therefore, develops ways in which to accomplish these goals with the focus to the next ten years of climate change adaptation (Schnase et al., 2017).

The strategies will focus on the visions that the climate change adaptability has in the SQE region.

The pieces of literature adapted further give proofs of how the adaptability of these programs could work within the SQE region. The previous case study is also sighted in the report and related how it could help in the adaptation program of the SQE (Schnase et al., 2017).

The literature begins by exploiting the potential climatic conditions that expose the communication infrastructures to different climatic conditions. The research further gives a scientific explanation of how the area climatic composition leads to erosion of support within a period of less than the expected ten years. In the end, there is a proposal of how the various forms of climatic changes can be avoided. Additionally, there are percentages of the most effective measures that last the most extended periods.

The literature, therefore, is appropriate use as a source of research. It can be used for the case of the SQE in helping get the best practices for climatic adaptations.

The book exploits the need of using resilient products when making communication infrastructure. The article recognizes that areas near the sea example the SQE receives high levels of carbon. The carbon, therefore, increases the presence of acidity in the climate that erodes these infrastructures. The text, therefore, encourages the need for resilient steel infrastructures that would take a long time to get undermined by the carbon caused by climatic change (Ouyang 2014).

The literature mainly focuses on how climatic conditions can be used for commercial opportunity. It examines business opportunities that arise from the climate change adaptation. The research exploits three main sectors. Financial sectors, infrastructure and construction opportunities.

According to the article, adapting infrastructure to climate change impacts on present opportunities. Expertise advice is developed from the same. It further emphasizes on the need of new engineering practices that are communication-based within the ICT technology.

This article is relevant to the SQE case. It emphasizes the need for integrating engineering practices with ICT for business purposes. However, the same idea can be used for climate change adaptation. The integration part is essential for the growth. The article can also be used to develop companies that will need business proof to implement climatic change adaptations. Opportunities presented in the material can be used to convince the management on the importance of adapting climatic changes. This is because the article even goes further to give percentage profits for adaptations of each.

The aim of the climate change resilient communication infrastructure is widely exploited in this article. The article traverse’s owners and investors that put up the communication infrastructure and what their role would be in adapting to climatic change adaptation.

The literature puts up a guide that develops communication infrastructure which is resilient to all-natural hazards. The research further gives guides for those who have already existed support and how they can turn them into adjusted maintenance that will make them even more also useful. It provides a reason for investors not to fear the cost of resilient materials to climatic changes due to the general good they have.

The literature is therefore related to the SQE adaptation in the report. By providing the aim of the climatic resilient products. It is easier to compare the intentions to one of the goals hoping to be achieved by the adaptation. When the purpose and the goals relate the product can, therefore, be used as a perfect strategy for one of the issues identified that need to be impacted on by the change.

The article exploits the authority and the government role in the implementation of the climatic adaptation. The article focuses on climatic infrastructure. The article mentions policies that the government should implement and provide their framework operations. The government and the authorities develop national policy statements that create a regulation within which the strategies can be applied.

The government must also lead by example by setting up resilient infrastructures within the government-owned entities. The literature addresses the market failures that might be realized when the strategies are implemented. The government compensates these market failures.

The literature is relevant for the SQE communication infrastructure report. The strategy developed for the issues must be compared if they are in line with the government’s regulatory framework. Developing a plan that does not conform to the regulations of the authorities is likely not to be implementable.

This article explores the effect of aging infrastructure on the climate change adaptation. The literature begins by exploiting the various ways in which the government has developed these aging infrastructures to adapt to the new climatic adaptation rules.

The research further reviews the effectiveness of each implementation. Citing the few strategies and explaining how it took time to implement each.

In the end, the literature exploits the economic effects that the change of communication infrastructure can cause. The economic impacts that the government must undergo through implementing the adaptation.

The literature is essential for the report. The economic reports from the research are very significant. The SQE authority can therefore determine the economic upheavals that the adaptation will have in the region. The literature will therefore use the report to predict the future impacts on economy if the change is adapted.

These articles discuss the importance of communication infrastructure in the implementation of the smart products grid. The author begins by giving an overview of the intelligent requirements. The literature further develops the smart network with communication infrastructure. The article establishes the smart product effects on communication, and they highlight the advantages of using these articles.

In the end, the article proposes the strategic designs that can be implemented to ensure that these infrastructures adapt the smart products into communication as a way of traversing different climatic conditions.

This article focuses on the disadvantages that might occur due to the adaptation to climatic change. The report relies on a drafted article from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Some of the problems or the challenges identified in the section are network related.

The article further digs into the various forms of communication. These forms mentioned in the article are bandwidth communication, internet communication and another type of connectivity. However, the article does not explain in depth environmental challenges.

This article has been used in the report in determining the best strategies that can overcome all the challenges. The best practice is therefore not likely to have many related problems.

The paper exploits are existing communication infrastructure that was put up but have failed to work out. The previous climatic conditions have made it quite tricky for the set-up infrastructure to work. The example mentioned in the paper are amateur radio communication technology. The literature provides awareness of the methods that have previously failed and the reason why they did fail. The documentary goes further to identify the disadvantages that the defined strategies had.

In the end, the literature provides emergency measures that can be taken in case of another happening of the same kind.

This paper, therefore, remains relevant in the SQE communication infrastructure report. The report is appropriate since it acts as a way of measuring the overall effectiveness of the strategies that were earlier developed. The article also helps determine failed strategy so that they aren’t used again, but new ones are brought into the plan for use (Wajih & Mani 2016).

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