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Wireless Street Lamps for Traffic Monitoring

Posted by michael on 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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  1. A nice idea but omnious perspectives by /Wegge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Aren't we coming pretty close to 1984?

    At least the surveilliance part of that dystopian society.

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  2. Missed by 20 years by rcastro0 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...monitor all cars' speed and location, all the time, everywhere...
    George Orwell, himself a brit, seems to have missed it by 20 years...
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  3. Re:Great way to detect traffic jams by Mikeytsi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, THAT'S what it's for. Of course, you couldn't possibly just use all the cameras to see if the cars are just sitting there instead of moving.

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