MuniWireless

Now here’s an interesting place where Wi-Fi can prove tremendously useful: mining.

I spoke today to Byron Henderson at Mesh Dynamics, a wireless mesh vendor in California, that just signed a deal with Active Control Technology (ACT) to provide the wireless component of the latter’s ActiveMine™ solution, a communications, data and tracking system that enables a mining company to monitor personnel and equipment in both surface and underground mines (click here to read the full press release). ACT will use up…

DLS-IT, a service provider based in Parlier, California, is using third generation mesh technology to provide service in three central California communities.The network, operating in Parlier, Sanger and San Joaquin, uses third generation mesh technology from Mesh Dynamics which announced its partnership with DLS-IT today.

The Mesh Dynamics announcement quotes De los Santos saying his company began working with the communities because “the digital divide applies to communities like ours, too, not only the inner city.” The three cities have a…