Along the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts, engineers and biologists are using a wireless network to track snapping turtles — a species they worry may be headed for decline as land development shrinks their habitat.
TurtleNet, funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, records and stores information, then transmits data from one device to another. [...]
St. Louis Park City’s Solar WiFi in Minnesota has come under fire by residents. Too damn ugly.
The city is installing some 400, 16-foot poles equipped with solar panels and mesh radio nodes around the city. Solar eliminates the need for any wiring.
Now the city is re-considering the tall, dedicated 16 foot poles. They may attach [...]
St. Louis Park is poised to become the first city in the nation to provide city-wide, solar-powered, WiFi.
The service, (FAQ) which could start as soon as next fall if approved as expected, would be powered by about 400 solar panels — each about the size of a stop sign — suspended 20 to [...]
A four-part series for NPR’s “Day to Day”, by Xeni Jardin, describes a solar-powered network in Northern India.
Outside, an antenna sits on a rooftop not far away. It’s one of 30 connection points in a wireless network that’s bringing the Internet to this remote region where communication technology has been expensive, [...]
Many groups address digital divide issues by providing inexpensive internet access. Green WiFi says one of the biggest barriers is lack of reliable electricity. They designed a solar-powered solution and plan to roll out a pilot project in northern India at the end of this summer, according to News.com and Om Malik.
Green-WiFi uses simple, low-cost [...]
Advanced Micro Device announced nationwide availability of the Telmex Internet Box Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) for citizens across Mexico.
Available from AMD since October 2004, The Telmex Internet Box provides Internet hardware, software, Internet service and support. It is available for purchase in Telmex shops all over Mexico and contains the PIC, a monitor, [...]
Yesterday was the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere). A good time to review solar powered hotspots.
Providing free broadband web access using inexpensive 802.11 mesh network was demonstrated at the GoldenHillFreeWeb project, which describes how it’s done.
Lumin Innovative Products, in Boulder, Colorado, uses Proxim access points. It takes [...]
Accatel is now installing 90 Strix OWS nodes for an initial network deployment, to support 10,000 voice subscriber lines in an eight-square-mile area of Chittagong, a port city of Bangladesh, with 3.5 million people.
Stage 2 of the deployment, which will roll out 6-12 months after Stage 1, will add 15-20,000 voice subscriber lines. Within three [...]
Solar powered WiFi lampposts will be piloted later this month in Scotland. Later in the year they plan to install up to 4,000 more in a student village. Project Starsight is being tested as part of a deal between Compliance Technology, a company based in Fife, Scotland, and the Abertay Center for the Environment (ACE) [...]
Boing Boing mentions the Starsight, a solar-powered WiFi access point that powers a streetlamp, a CCTV camera and WiMax backhaul.
The system consists of a dual radio providing 2.4 GHz WiFi access to subscribers, using a high gain omni antenna, and a 5.8 GHz backhaul from nex-G Systems, using a high gain (26db) parabolic antenna.
nex-G Systems [...]
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