{"id":138929,"date":"2022-05-04T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/wi-fi-may-be-coming-soon-to-a-lamppost-near-you"},"modified":"2022-05-04T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:22:19","slug":"wi-fi-may-be-coming-soon-to-a-lamppost-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/wi-fi-may-be-coming-soon-to-a-lamppost-near-you","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi may be coming soon to a lamppost near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wi-fi-may-be-coming-soon-to-a-lamppost-near-you.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Wi-Fi is deployed more widely in cities, and perhaps at higher frequencies, it may depend on an abundant urban asset: streetlight poles.<\/p>\n<p>To help ensure these networks work well, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and verified a novel model that will help wireless communications providers analyze how high to attach Wi-Fi equipment to light poles.<\/p>\n<p>In general, the NIST team found that the optimal height depends on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/transmission+frequency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transmission frequency<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/antenna+design\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antenna design<\/a>. Attaching equipment at lower heights of around 4 meters is better for traditional wireless systems with omnidirectional antennas, whereas higher locations 6 or 9 meters up are better for the latest systems such as 5G using higher, millimeter-wave frequencies and narrow-beam antennas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Wi-Fi is deployed more widely in cities, and perhaps at higher frequencies, it may depend on an abundant urban asset: streetlight poles. To help ensure these networks work well, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and verified a novel model that will help wireless communications providers analyze how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}