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Solar-powered streetlights to offer wi-fi net access

WiMax access also on offer

Tags: wifi

By Steve Ranger

Published: 4 January 2006 15:25 GMT

A Scottish university is trialling solar-powered streetlights which will also deliver wi-fi internet access.

The 'Project Starsight' technology is being tested as part of a deal between Compliance Technology (CTL) and the Abertay Centre for the Environment (ACE) at the University of Abertay in Dundee.

No local community needs to be without reliable, economic street lighting with the added benefit of wi-fi technology outside their front doors.

-- Calum McRae, head of CTL Scotland

The solar panels provide a free energy source for the streetlight and also for the wi-fi or WiMax connection.

Calum McRae, head of CTL Scotland, said in a statement: "The new photovoltaic technology, which will be showcased in Dundee, will mean that no local community needs to be without reliable, economic street lighting with the added benefit of wi-fi technology outside their front doors."

The plan is to have the product ready for the marketplace "before the end of the financial year".

ACE director Mary Cowie added in a statement: "The pilot scheme will involve not only ACE but students from the University of Abertay who will be able to play a hands on-role in shaping the technology of tomorrow."

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