The company recently strung up 3,000 radio transceivers on street lamps and traffic lights across the city as part of a wireless Internet network called Ricochet.
Metricom, a company that has built wireless data networks in Atlanta and San Diego so far, is putting radio transceivers on top of street lamps and traffic lights.
The street lamps and traffic lights are transformed into swarms of hovering diamond-shaped spaceships, rain on the windshield can resemble fields of diamonds, and the sound pulses around us.
This is because a great deal of LED lighting infrastructure such as LED street lamps, LED traffic lights, and LED lamps in vehicles have started to be deployed in urban areas.
Close by stood lamp posts, traffic control boxes, tree planting guards, rubbish bins, fire hydrants, bike racks, post boxes, parking meters, newspaper stands, bus shelters and vendor stalls.
When Mark Tunmore was 16 he was inspired to make his own moth trap from a mercury vapour lamp, a traffic cone and a dustbin.
You need to consider street lamps and pedestrian traffic, and you must refrain from rocking the car and tempting someone to lean a face against the window.
Static objects like street lamps or illuminated traffic signs appear white.
As part of a program established by the state Public Utilities Commission that encourages the replacement of incandescent traffic lamps, Southern California Edison presented a check to Huntington Beach.
So they can go even further than the home and provide a platform for all sorts of sensor-enabled devices in the coming world of the "smart city:" parking meters, doors, street lamps, road signs, traffic lights - anything you can imagine.
