Macon, Georgia, network does double duty
Macon, Georgia officials are making excess capacity on the city’s new public safety network available to residents via 40 downtown hot spots. What’s most interesting about this network is its usage model and the way in which it was financed.Macon, Georgia officials are making excess capacity on the city’s new public safety network available to residents via 40 downtown hot spots.
Macon’s priority was building a public safety which it has been in the process of deploying for the past year, using Motorola’s MotoMesh system.
Revenue for the deployment came from a $1.5 million Department of Justice grant. The focus was on enabling broadband communications and data retrieval for police officers in squad cars around the city.
Public access is a nice additional perk. While the network enables public safety communications within a mile of the nodes, residents will be able to access the Internet through hot spots within 300 to 500 feet of the nodes.
“Our entire downtown, for the most part, is wireless,” said Mayor Jack Ellis when the city rolled out its network at a Monday morning news conference.
Although cameras were temporarily installed to demonstate the network at the roll-out, the mayor said they will be taken down. “I hope things will never get that bad in downtown that we have to put cameras in,” he said.
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