Wireless Street Lamps for Traffic Monitoring

Posted by michael on Thursday January 15, 2004 @03:48AM from the one-big-hotspot dept.

RMH101 writes "The Register has a story about a UK initiative to create a country-wide wireless data network using street lamps. It's come to pass through a government initiative to monitor all cars' speed and location, all the time, everywhere. The company involved, Last Mile, are proposing an intelligent mesh of smart street lamps embedded with storage and wireless networking to create 200MBit network access across the UK, including remote areas not reachable by conventional broadband. Work is due to start this year."

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Re:RTFA! RTFA! RTFA! by sinucus · 2004-01-15 09:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I hate to say typical things like, "You must be new, nobody reads the articles." amongst other things.

I think the point of slashdot is not just to discuss the article. As long as a meaningful conversation is taking place why does it matter if it is Offtopic or not. The only thing that matters are trolls. As long as the people enjoy the posts, what's so wrong with that?