The LD.Edu application is the result of a research and development project by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), in an agreement signed with the City Hall of Lima Duarte, seeking to exercise new teaching modalities supported by digital support on personal devices in communication through a decentralized network.

In its current pilot phase, the project seeks to develop and implement a small part of what will become LD.edu, a distribution network for educational content, with a decentralized architecture, with different options for the communication infrastructure. The pilot involves the deployment of three hotspots, each configured as a private network containing an edge computing terminal, which locally serves requests from users of the LD.Edu application. In a timely manner, data from the edge computing terminal is replicated to the terminals at other hotspots over the Internet using secure peer-to-peer protocols. Such decentralized infrastructure aims to allow, in the pilot, the exercise of teaching methodologies supported by the platform and the demonstration of its basic functionalities, in a real environment involving students, guardians and education professionals from two different schools in the municipality. Thus, we seek to obtain the evaluation and opinions of the various actors involved, forming a solid set of information that will support the decision-making of the municipal administration regarding the continuity of the project and its development and implementation priorities.