"New York City plans to build a public safety wireless network of unprecedented scale and scope, including the capacity to provide tens of thousands of mobile users with the ability to send and receive data while traveling at speeds of up to 70 mph citywide.
"Menchini described the planned network as 'the most challenging and most comprehensive' wireless project that he's aware of.
"The network would provide mobile users from the New York police, fire and emergency medical service departments with broadband access to information such as mug shot and fingerprint databases and building floor plans. The city also wants to use the network to control traffic signals and support an automatic vehicle-location system that would be tied into its dispatch systems."
Bob Brewin. NYC Wireless Network Will Be Unprecedented. Computerworld. June 18, 2004.
Posted by Carol Schwartz at June 22, 2004 07:25 AM | Send to a friend! | Topic(s): Mobile Devices, Wireless--networks