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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Big Brother by Ilex · 2004-01-15 04:02 · Score: 5, Informative

monitor all cars' speed and location, all the time, everywhere

The UK gov has an obsession with monitoring it's citizens. London already has more CCTV than any other capital. On average you're court on camera 300 times a day.

I expect their excuse is to improve road safety. The real reason is so they can issue more speeding tickets and increase the number of tolls.

The UK Motorist already pays 3 taxes to use the roads. Duty at the gas pump, Road Tax and tolls to use public roads in the form of the London congestion charge.