MuniWireless

If there’s one municipal wireless application I am going to push, it’s wireless digital parking meters. I have been stuck so many times without enough coins to feed into those ancient meters that I think this is the one thing all cities need to implement now. It’s time to stop using Roman technology (i.e. coins). Below a photo of a digital parking meter, powered by a solar cell nonetheless, very green indeed.

A company called Digital Payment Technologies is installing them…

The police department of McAllen, Texas is installing 120 video surveillance cameras over the next five years in an effort to deter crime and catch suspects on film. The cameras will be linked via a wireless network, whose backhaul is a fiber optic network that runs through the city. The city is paying close to $500,000 for the video surveillance system, including the cameras; the fiber optic network will cost the city $11,000 per square mile and the city plans…