Wifi In NY Recycling

[Demon_Skeith]

A waste management company is looking to put a positive spin on New York City's garbage problem by turning garbage and recycling bins into wi-fi hotspots.

BigBelly has manufactured solar-powered "smart" garbage cans that contain sensors to alert people when they're near full. Since the cans are self-sustainable, the company figured it'd make the bins even more useful than mere repositories by installing Wi-Fi units in them to provide free access to the internet all around the city.

Working with New York's Downtown Alliance, BigBelly has placed these units within many of the 170 smart bins installed around the city. Results have shown the bins are capable of a bandwidth of 50 to 75 megabits per second.

This tech is useful, but it's not the full extent it could eventually be used for. CityLab reports BigBelly also hopes to help gather information about waste management and possibly even display public announcements and alerts using these bins in the future.

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a smart move.

 

[froggyboy604]

This does seem pretty nice.

I imagine that the tech workers who work on maintaining and replacing these wifi hotspots when they break on garbage cans will smell some pretty stinky odors since New York gets hot during the summer which makes trash smell awful because of rotting food scrapes.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

nice idea now, bad in the long run. Hopefully cleaning crews will maintain it.

 

[lb]

My God! By the looks of it, everything will be turned into a WiFi spot in the future... :rolleyes:

 

[Demon_Skeith]

My God! By the looks of it, everything will be turned into a WiFi spot in the future... :rolleyes:

just got to wait for the wifi causes sickness articles to start popping up.