Wi-Fi goes underground with Mesh Dynamics
March 27, 2008 at 3:19 PM by Esme Vos
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 ActiveMineâ„¢ 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…




