Storm Readiness
Help communities stay connected during emergencies.
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Exploring how stronger local infrastructure, emergency readiness, and community participation can help Kauai stay connected when it matters most.
Explore Your Community
See how resilience, connectivity, emergency readiness, and future community projects may relate to your location.
Why This Matters
Kauai deserves shared infrastructure that neighbors can count on — for everyday life, for emergencies, and for the generations ahead.
Help communities stay connected during emergencies.
Expand opportunities for residents and local organizations.
Support learning, communication, and public gathering places.
Help businesses and visitors remain connected.
Reduce dependence on fragile outside systems.
Build a stronger foundation for generations to come.
The Challenge
Kauai depends on a handful of paths for internet access. When those paths fail — during hurricanes, floods, or infrastructure outages — the whole island feels it. We need infrastructure designed for resilience, not just speed.
When storms hit or fiber paths fail, Kauai loses connectivity fast. First responders, hospitals, and residents are left without reliable comms.
North shore valleys, west-side canyons, and ridge communities sit outside reliable coverage. Geography makes single-path networks brittle.
Submarine cables, landslides, and flooding routinely disrupt island-wide service. One failure can cascade across the entire grid.
Visitor surges strain existing capacity. Seasonal demand spikes leave locals competing for bandwidth when they need it most.
In 2024, Kauai experienced multiple multi-hour outages affecting emergency communications, telehealth, and remote learning. A resilient local network changes that equation.
What exists today
Before exploring future possibilities, we start with what is publicly known about service types available on the island. We do not display coverage maps or claim service at specific addresses.
Important: Availability varies by address and terrain. Always verify with providers directly. If you have local knowledge, share it on the map under “What Residents Know.”
Primary local telecommunications provider serving Hawaiʻi with fiber and other services.
Fiber and internet services are offered on Kauai in many populated areas. Availability varies significantly by street address.
Verify service at your address on the provider website — coverage is not uniform island-wide.
National cable and internet provider with presence in Hawaiʻi markets.
Cable internet may be available in some Kauai communities. Not all neighborhoods are served.
Address-level availability check required. We do not display coverage maps on this site.
Low-earth-orbit satellite internet used by some Kauai residents and businesses.
Satellite service depends on clear sky view and equipment. Used as primary or backup connectivity in some areas.
Community observations welcome — many residents report using Starlink where wired options are limited.
National mobile carrier with cellular service across parts of Kauai.
Mobile voice and data vary by location, terrain, and indoor conditions. Not a substitute for fixed broadband everywhere.
Signal strength is location-specific. We do not publish coverage polygons.
National mobile carrier serving portions of the island.
Cellular coverage exists in many corridors but weak spots are common in valleys and remote areas.
Verify at your location. Community outage reports help us understand real-world experience.
National mobile carrier with service in parts of Kauai.
Mobile connectivity available in many areas with significant variation by terrain and weather.
No coverage guarantees displayed here — share your observations to help neighbors.
Emergency communications include county systems, amateur radio networks, and official alert channels. Detailed asset locations are not published here until verified — Data Needed in several areas.
Connectivity Explorer
Click a region to see known service types, community observations, gaps where we need more data, and resilience considerations. We never present speculation as fact.
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Verified Information
Publicly known facilities and general provider facts — not address-level coverage
Community-Contributed Information
Neighbor observations — helpful context, not verified facts
Future Opportunities
Ideas under discussion — not existing infrastructure
Region profile
Līhuʻe and surrounding areas — primary services and fiber handoff zone.
Public facilities we can name without inventing infrastructure locations.
Address Impact Explorer
See how resilience, connectivity, emergency readiness, and future community projects may relate to your location. The first question we answer: How does this affect me?
Today ← → Future Possibilities
See how community projects and resources could grow over time
Search for your home, business, school, or neighborhood to see how resilience, connectivity, and community projects may relate to you.
Community Conversation
A place to share questions, ideas, concerns, and opportunities related to Kauai's future resilience.
Kauai residents hold many different perspectives regarding technology, health, privacy, environmental stewardship, emergency preparedness, and development.
This project is intended to support a transparent community conversation. Questions and concerns are welcome. Ideas and participation are welcome.
Our goal is to learn together and explore solutions that strengthen the island while respecting the values of the community.
This is not a debate section. It is a listening and transparency space. We are exploring — not announcing finished plans. No conclusions are predetermined.
“I support better connectivity, but I want to understand what equipment might be near homes and schools before anything is considered.”
Add a question or concern tied to a neighborhood. Your marker appears on the Community Questions & Concerns map layer — alongside other voices from across the island.
View on community mapCommunity Map
Start with what exists today — verified facilities, regional connectivity knowledge, and neighbor observations. Future ideas stay visually distinct.
Planning Tools
The community map above is welcoming and open to every voice. This section goes deeper — for neighbors, volunteers, and planners who want to explore scenarios, site information, resilience scores, and technical options we are still evaluating.
Ways to Help
Participation should feel welcoming and simple. Choose the path that fits you — or just say you want to stay informed.
Offer rooftop, tower, or sheltered space for community infrastructure.
Get startedShare property that could support a hub, shelter, or gathering place.
Get startedSchools, nonprofits, agencies, and businesses can partner on local projects.
Get startedLend your time, skills, or local knowledge to move projects forward.
Get startedHelp fund pilots, equipment, and community readiness efforts.
Get startedStay informed as the community blueprint grows — no commitment required.
Get startedProject Roadmap
We are exploring a long-term community effort — not announcing a finished plan. Each phase listens, learns, and earns trust.
Gather ideas, priorities, concerns, and support from people across Kauai.
Explore small resilience and connectivity initiatives that could show what is possible.
Connect projects into a broader community-supported system for the whole island.
Pilot Plan
A honest, staged build — starting with contributed gear and community partners, growing into coordinated anchors, and eventually island-owned edge infrastructure.
Deploy contributed gear across a focused corridor — proving switching, backhaul, and community Wi-Fi with honest pilot scope.
Expand anchor coverage across the island — connecting civil defense, healthcare, schools, and community hubs into a coordinated mesh.
Build island-owned digital infrastructure — a community-governed edge facility and diverse backhaul paths that survive single-point failures.
Use Cases
Real scenarios the gear and sites are being planned for — each scoped as a pilot contribution, not a claim of full deployment.
Aggregate traffic from 2–3 pilot nodes with VLAN segmentation between emergency, community, and backhaul networks.
Pilot role
Wire a small edge closet or rack at a community anchor or data-center-edge candidate site.
Connect a high-site ridge relay to a coastal hub using point-to-point 5 GHz or 60 GHz links.
Pilot role
Link one ridge relay to one hub in a pilot corridor — line-of-sight surveys required.
Provide public emergency Wi-Fi at a school, community center, or assembly point during outages.
Pilot role
Cover a single public Wi-Fi zone; backhaul and power must be provisioned separately.
Deliver broadband to remote pockets not served by resilient fiber paths.
Pilot role
Serve a limited subscriber pilot — not a replacement for island-wide ISP coverage.
Mount sector and panel antennas on J-mounts or tower structures for ridge and rooftop relays.
Pilot role
Hardware ready for several mounts; structural and permit review still needed per site.
PDU, UPS, and rack power for a small indoor edge or switching closet.
Pilot role
Power a few sheltered racks — outdoor/tower power engineering is a separate effort.
Run DNS caching, local alert relay, and lightweight apps when upstream connectivity is degraded.
Pilot role
Stand up one pilot edge node — scaling requires more compute, power, and cooling planning.
Maintain a backup internet path when submarine fiber or primary ISP links are disrupted.
Pilot role
Backup one pilot hub uplink — additional kits and sites needed for broader redundancy.
Keep ridge relays and emergency anchors powered through multi-hour or multi-day grid failures.
Pilot role
Support runtime at several tower sites in a pilot — full resilience sizing not yet complete.
Starter Inventory
This is a real starter inventory — not a claim of island-wide readiness. It can jump-start a pilot corridor with switching, backhaul, radios, power, and edge compute, but sites, power design, licensing, and operations still need to be built out.
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Total units
38
Unique SKUs
8
Categories
What the gear enables
Point-to-point radios and sector antennas connect ridge relays to coastal hubs — creating paths that don't depend on a single fiber route.
Backhaul radios, antennas, routing
Access points at schools, community centers, and assembly points give residents a connection when home internet goes dark.
Access points, switching, power
Satellite uplink kits maintain a failover path when submarine fiber or primary ISP links are disrupted during storms.
Starlink kits, routing failover
Local servers cache critical data, run DNS, and relay emergency alerts — keeping island services alive when upstream is degraded.
Edge servers, switching, rack power
UPS, batteries, and solar-ready power keep nodes running through multi-hour or multi-day grid outages.
Batteries, PDU, UPS, rack infrastructure
Pilot framing: Inventory is grouped below by network role. Each category explains how the gear could support a resilience pilot — not a finished island network. Additional sites, funding, fiber paths, and operational capacity are still required.
Core and access-layer switches, routers, and patch infrastructure for site interconnect.
Possible pilot role
Enough switching to wire 2–3 pilot sites and a small edge aggregation point — not island-wide core capacity.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
Copper Switch RB5009
MikroTik
MikroTik Outdoor Copper Switches (Used)
MikroTik
MikroTik Network Switch
MikroTik
MikroTik Router
MikroTik
MikroTik Cloud Switch
MikroTik
MikroTik Cloud Switch Router
MikroTik
Edge Router
MikroTik SFP Switch
MikroTik
USW Pro Max
Ubiquiti
Ubiquiti Pro Max PoE Switch
Ubiquiti
Cisco 9300 Nexus
Cisco
Nano Switch
Ubiquiti
Point-to-point and high-capacity wireless links between ridge relays and hub sites.
Possible pilot role
Strong backhaul stock for linking a handful of ridge and coastal nodes in a pilot corridor.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
NanoBeam 5AC
Ubiquiti
AirFiber 60XR UISP
Ubiquiti
Tachyon TNA 302
Tachyon
LTE, Wi-Fi, and fixed wireless radios for last-mile and community access.
Possible pilot role
Radios to serve pilot coverage zones — additional licensing, backhaul, and sites still needed beyond inventory.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
Baicell Nova 430i
Baicell
Window Units Baicell
Baicell
Rocket 5AC AP
Ubiquiti
Baicell NR 11
Baicell
Wave Nano
Wave AP
Baicell 846
Baicell
Sector, panel, and mounting hardware for relay and access deployments.
Possible pilot role
Mounting and antenna stock to support multiple relay builds; site surveys still required per location.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
KPP Dual-Band 8-Port Antenna
NetPoint Antenna
J Mount
Long J Mount
PDUs, UPS, injectors, patch panels, and rack power for sheltered deployments.
Possible pilot role
Rack and power basics for a few sheltered nodes — outdoor power design still needed per site.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
CAT 24 Patch Panel
Power Strip for Rack
Ubiquiti Dual Power Injector
Ubiquiti
Power Control
Power Supply
PDU
CyberPower UPS
CyberPower
Small-form-factor servers and industrial PCs for local caching, DNS, and services.
Possible pilot role
Compute to stand up one edge pilot node with local services — not a full data center build-out.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
Micro PC
Dell Micro PC
Dell
IPC
Satellite and alternate uplink kits for redundancy when fiber or terrestrial links fail.
Possible pilot role
Two Starlink kits can backup a pilot uplink — not enough for island-wide satellite redundancy.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
Starlink Setup
Starlink
Battery banks and resilience power for tower and relay runtime during grid outages.
Possible pilot role
Battery stock to support several tower sites in a pilot — solar, generator, and sizing work still TBD.
Use cases on Kauai
Items in stock
Tower Site Batteries
Who Benefits
From first responders to families, from schools to small businesses — resilient infrastructure is a public good.
Reliable comms for police, fire, and search & rescue during island-wide outages.
Stable home internet and community Wi-Fi when storms knock out primary service.
Safety alerts, navigation, and connectivity that doesn't vanish during peak season.
Uninterrupted learning with local caching and resilient connections for remote education.
Telehealth continuity and hospital data links that survive infrastructure failures.
POS systems, reservations, and operations stay online through redundant paths.
Island leaders and landowners who can host relay sites and sponsor infrastructure.
Dependable bandwidth for the growing community of island-based remote professionals.
Partner Opportunities
Each initiative starts with a simple question: who benefits, and how can neighbors participate?
Why it matters
When home internet fails, public gathering places can become lifelines for families, students, and neighbors.
Who benefits
Residents, visitors, schools, and local organizations during outages.
Ways to participate
Why it matters
Storms and outages isolate neighborhoods — local readiness helps people get information and support faster.
Who benefits
First responders, families, elders, and rural communities.
Ways to participate
Why it matters
Stronger neighborhoods start with places people already trust — schools, churches, and community centers.
Who benefits
Whole neighborhoods, especially areas prone to flooding or isolation.
Ways to participate
Why it matters
Schools are anchors for learning, family communication, and community assembly when crises hit.
Who benefits
Students, teachers, parents, and surrounding neighborhoods.
Ways to participate
Why it matters
Shared knowledge builds lasting resilience — not just equipment, but people who know how to help.
Who benefits
Volunteers, small businesses, nonprofits, and civic groups.
Ways to participate
Long-range planning
For planners, volunteers, and curious neighbors — a look at how community planning could evolve toward deeper modeling, coverage analysis, and island-wide coordination. We are exploring these ideas; nothing here is predetermined.
Where we are today
An open island map where residents, planners, and partners explore scenarios, candidate sites, and community support — together.
Next horizon
Physics-informed models that estimate who benefits from each site, how paths fail, and where gaps remain after storms.
Full island model
A living digital twin of Kauai's connectivity fabric — buildings, utilities, towers, and fiber — for optimization and emergency planning.
Get Involved
Whether you can host a site, volunteer your time, represent an organization, or simply want to stay informed — your voice belongs in this movement.
Voices from the community
“We lost internet for 3 days during the last storm. A local mesh network would have kept our family connected to emergency updates.”
“I have ridge-line property with clear sight lines to Līhuʻe. Happy to host a relay site if it helps the community.”
“Our clinic needs redundant connectivity for telehealth. This initiative is exactly what Kauai healthcare has been asking for.”
Tell us who you are and how you can help. Submissions are stored locally for now and will sync when a backend is connected.