Streetlight Grid Turned into Back-Haul Network
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Sunrise Technologies is teaming with Ember to turn the country’s grid of streetlights into a wide-area communications network for a host of new public utility, security, environmental and other applications.
Sunrise Technologies’ new BrownBetty system creates a mesh network for communications between ground-based sensor and control devices and the Internet, utilizing Ember’s ZigBee wireless network technology. By taking advantage of the existing streetlight infrastructure with its high elevation poles and clean line of sight, BrownBetty dramatically lowers the cost of backhaul communications while enabling applications that were previously not practical or affordable.
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