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How to make Billions of Dollars of Impending Public Wireless Investment Serve the Public Good:

How to make Billions of Dollars of Impending Public Wireless Investment Serve the Public Good: A transportation tale Robin Chase CEO, robin@meadownetworks.com , robin@goloco.org. The Problem. 7th &Broadway, NY. TRANSPORTATION SECTOR Behavioral changes & sources of revenue

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How to make Billions of Dollars of Impending Public Wireless Investment Serve the Public Good:

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  1. How to make Billions of Dollars of Impending Public Wireless Investment Serve the Public Good: A transportation tale Robin Chase CEO, robin@meadownetworks.com, robin@goloco.org

  2. The Problem

  3. 7th &Broadway, NY

  4. TRANSPORTATION SECTOR • Behavioral changes & sources of revenue • will be driven by user fees, • enabled by wireless technologies • congestion pricing • road tolling & pricing • parking • carbon taxes

  5. CONGESTION PRICING MILESTONES 1975 Singapore 2003 London, 25% reduction in congestion, increase in highway speeds 2006 Stockholm, 6 month test reduced traffic 22%, cost $560m Cities Discussing It: New York, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, Seoul, Melbourne, Sydney, Shanghai, Beijing, and others…

  6. An Opportunity

  7. Congestion pricing & privacy http://www.meadownetworks.com/?page_id=6

  8. Wireless Mesh Networking

  9. Implications of Mesh Network Architecture • Right-sized provisioning (vastly diminishes possibility for congestion effects) • Distributed financing (don’t have to collect and have large sums of money, and don’t have to find ROI or logic to rationalize that investment) • Distributed power (don’t have to wait years for the monopolgy --telcos or governments -- to sort out their interests, and financing mechanisms) • Totally Decentralized (no one node can amass power to control provisioning) • 80% less infrastructure costs (only need to do the 20% long distance backhaul) • 90% reduction in monthly communications costs

  10. The Approach

  11. We need the Apache Linux Mozilla of Mesh Networking Communications

  12. An OS mesh network software company, Harboring a core of engineers Six (a number that can work together and move quickly) highly skilled (best in the world) financed (by 2-4 major industry players -- Cisco, Intel, Google, IBM, others for at least 3 years) dedicated (they know they this has financial backing so worth relocation & effort) + A geographic pilot location Large (minimum 1000 nodes) Scalable (with potential for hundreds of thousands of devices, & replicable elsewhere) Diverse & complex (geography, physical infrastructure, types of uses) Politically committed (will have some sustained support to cover for difficulties)

  13. IS THE INTERNET OF THINGS • (ubiquitous, low cost, IP-based data bits from anywhere to anywhere) • A PUBLIC GOOD? • Reduce CO2 emissions to avoid catastrophic effects of climate change • Transform from a carbon-based economy to an information economy • Bring data connectivity to all people throughout the world at low cost, low technical skill requirements, grassroots control

  14. Wireless Cities • Boston • Sentinel Monitoring Programs • NeonInc.org (National Ecological Observation Network) • INSTEDD (International System for Total Early Disease Detection)

  15. DISCUSSION Is (major pilot + OS mesh software nonprofit) approach right? Can we force standards? Or do we need to wait for 802.11s standards? Do we let current FCC rules about “flexible radio devices” stop us? Can we fit into the business ecosystem? Who to partner with?

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