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New York City is Turning Trash Cans Into WiFi Hotspots
by Shaunacy Ferro, msn.com, 13 July 2015
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by Shaunacy Ferro, msn.com, 13 July 2015
Solar-powered trash bins in New York City might soon provide more than just waste disposal. Bigbelly, a waste management company with trash and recycling cans located across the city, wants to turn its garbage centers into free WiFi hotspots that can support the bandwidth equivalent of an entire small business.
A pilot project in downtown Manhattan has been ongoing since last winter, when the company rigged two of its 170 neighborhood trash cans with WiFi hot spots. Tests of the signal quality and number of people who could connect to the network showed that the dank location of the WiFi units wouldn't be a problem. Each unit had a bandwidth of 50 to 75 megabits per second.
A pilot project in downtown Manhattan has been ongoing since last winter, when the company rigged two of its 170 neighborhood trash cans with WiFi hot spots. Tests of the signal quality and number of people who could connect to the network showed that the dank location of the WiFi units wouldn't be a problem. Each unit had a bandwidth of 50 to 75 megabits per second.