{"id":18641,"date":"2015-10-21T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/this-smart-pavement-is-giving-pedestrians-access-to-free-wi-fi"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:56","slug":"this-smart-pavement-is-giving-pedestrians-access-to-free-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/this-smart-pavement-is-giving-pedestrians-access-to-free-wi-fi","title":{"rendered":"This smart pavement is giving pedestrians access to free Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-smart-pavement-is-giving-pedestrians-access-to-free-wi-fi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A footpath in the UK has been equipped with free Wi-Fi coverage, with manholes, on-street cabinets, and other \u2018street furniture\u2019 being used to broadcast the signal, which reaches maximum speeds of 166 Mbps and can be accessed from up to 80 metres (260 feet) away.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, this is a very small-scale scheme: the connected street has been set up in the market town of Chesham, home to some 21,000 people, about 50 km outside of London. As you might expect, it\u2019s a promotional stunt on the part of Virgin Media, but the company says it\u2019s committed to improving public Wi-Fi access across the country, and will be using feedback from the trial in Chesham to help inform its future plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unlimited Wi-Fi service is available to residents, businesses, and visitors passing through the centre of Chesham,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/about.virginmedia.com\/press-release\/9479\/chesham-pilots-uks-first-smart-wifi-pavement-with-virgin-media\">explains the Virgin Media team<\/a>. \u201cThe service even covers parts of Lowndes Park \u2014 Chesham\u2019s 36-acre park space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-smart-pavement-is-giving-pedestrians-access-to-free-wi-fi\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A footpath in the UK has been equipped with free Wi-Fi coverage, with manholes, on-street cabinets, and other \u2018street furniture\u2019 being used to broadcast the signal, which reaches maximum speeds of 166 Mbps and can be accessed from up to 80 metres (260 feet) away. For the time being, this is a very small-scale scheme: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69330,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641\/revisions\/69330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}