« Heard in today's news | Main | Bruce Sterling: "New Orleans has become an awesome Y2K survivalist dystopia" » Communications technology for New OrleansFlorida's Freedom4Wireless is sending a team to build ad hoc wireless networks in New Orleans so that emergency workers can use voice over IP to communicate. MIT Technology Review reports this development, and the possibility that WiMax and mesh networking might be used to build emergency data networks. Motorola put its mesh networking technology into place in Florida last year after Hurricane Charley. It was used to monitor staging areas that were vulnerable to looting. Rather than positioning a dozen police cruisers around a parking lot filled with food and water, public safety officials positioned mesh-network-connected video cameras around the lot. The cameras fed a video stream to a police crew in a single cruiser, thereby freeing up other officers for more pressing concerns. jon posted this at 7:27 AM |
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