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Gangneung City in South Korea has deployed a municipal wireless network to assist city workers and residents in dealing with emergencies. The city has installed security cameras, weather sensors and fire alarm sensors, all of which will be monitored by Gangneung’s emergency personnel. The “Ubiquitous Sensor Network” (which uses IPv6) will also provide city residents and visitors with access to online sports, weather, disaster prevention and other information.

KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom) is the city’s partner in the deployment using…

Korea has conducted a test to find out if Wi-Fi can be used as a cost-effective way to deliver multimedia to Wi-Fi devices (portable and in-vehicle) along its highways. The Korean Highway Corporation used a  31-kilometer stretch between Pangyo and Osan to determine whether a Wi-Fi mesh network could achieve continuous 8 Mbps end-to-end connections for streaming video, voice over IP and multimedia applications at speeds reaching 100 km/hour. It appears that KHC was satisfied with the results (using Strix…

Seoul City’s Cheonggye waterway has launched a wireless network, targeted to enhancing the experience of tourists and business visitors traveling to the city. The waterway and its surrounding park area opened in 2005 to much public acclaim as an urban renewal project.

The deployment was conducted by Samsung SDS using a Firetide advanced wireless mesh and access network solution to support applications that range from beaming visitor information to rented PDAs to public video surveillance and underwater video cameras to monitor wildlife…