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It’s either luck or the public safety video surveillance systems (“crime cameras”) are going mainstream. Denver Post recently ran an extensive article on Denver’s HALO (High Activity Location Observation) system. The initial phase of the system included 50 cameras and was deployed in the preparation for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The system uses Firetide’s wireless [...]
I have finally updated the list of US cities and counties that have large scale Wi-Fi networks: citywide WiFi for public access and government/municipal applications, and Wi-Fi hotzones. A word of caution: the list may not be as accurate as I’d like it to be. I’m hoping people will post comments to correct the entries. There [...]
The Atlantic is running a series called The Future of the City and one of the articles is about the Minneapolis muni WiFi network owned and managed by US Internet. The article is an interview with Minneapolis city CIO, Lynn Willenbring, who explains why the city decided on the anchor tenant model (US Internet owns [...]
My post Why Flexibility of Mesh Topology is Important for Video Surveillance drew an extended comment from Joe Wargo of AO Wireless, and I’m using it as a jumping off point to address some of the issues impacting network design for wireless security and surveillance. (Sections in italics are Joe’s comments, with my commentary below each paragraph. Headings [...]
It was pretty amazing to see the amount of people involved in Conductivity Week in Santa Clara California last week. They were all there positioning their expertise on how to build and secure the smart grid. With NIST, WiFi Alliance, Zigbee Alliance, and the IEEE and hundreds vendors and speakers attending, it was like a [...]
I have just created the MuniWireless Northern California meetup group. I encourage people living and working in Northern California to join us (and even those who don’t should join because you might be in the neighborhood when we are holding an event). The URL is http://www.meetup.com/MuniWireless-Northern-California. Among the topics we will cover in upcoming events [...]
Firetide recently announced a contract with Thales Portugal to provide Mumbai Metro with real-time, mobile wireless video surveillance network. The network will be deployed to provide onboard video surveillance and broadcast of text message to passenger information display. The Mumbai Metro is a three-line, high capacity rapid transit system spanning 40 miles that is being built [...]
The NTIA announced that it will provide an opportunity for certain state and local governments to apply for broadband stimulus funding to support public safety projects. The potential applicants are the state and local governmental entities that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently permitted to deploy public safety broadband systems using the 700 MHz public [...]
The city of San Fernando (Los Angeles County) has issued an RFP for the design and installation of a wireless data network using mesh technology in the licensed 4.9 GHz public safety spectrum. Note that network has to support future use of 2.4 GHz for automated meter reading and municipal Wi-Fi access. You can request [...]
For 2010, Firetide forecasts 100 percent increase in demand for city-wide wireless infrastructure mesh networks but with a focus on municipal infrastructure rather than free public Wi-Fi applications. Eager for more and affordable capacity, municipalities will turn towards wireless infrastructure mesh vendors that can provide “fiber-like” performance at a fraction of fiber’s cost for a [...]
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