Solar energy is the future. As we know? Because you are streaming the Internet to regions that don’t have the IT infrastructure, allowing always-on access without any power supply. While the sun is shining, you can stream the latest SNL digital short through YouTube to your heart’s content, and with a rechargeable battery, the entertainment continues late into the night.
The new Meraki Solar Internet Mesh system makes this new solar-powered Internet possible. The standalone unit sets up a WiFi network, and when I say “no power supply” I mean it. This thing runs entirely on free energy from the sun. Just set the unit and forget about it.
The appeal of Meraki and its products is its simple, effective and elegant solution to a problem that Google couldn’t solve: the distribution of wi-fi throughout the city. More importantly, in regions where energy infrastructure is relatively sparse, daisy-chaining these wi-fi routers will allow seemingly isolated communities to be “connected.” Each router system includes a single solar panel. In fact, Meraki has eliminated the single cable from wireless technology … the power cord.
The system is simple enough to set up where it doesn’t require expensive IT professions to get connected. It is a simple effort to launch. You need to buy enough router systems to cover a given network area. Next A simple cable or dsl modem should be wired to every fourth or fifth router system. When starting the system, each of the routers forms a mesh network that allows them to transmit the broadband signal to all areas within range. In one case, that meant that a $ 20,000 system could cover 48 acres.
It’s only a matter of time before cell phone systems realize the same energy efficiency trick. When the whole purpose of your devices is “Stay outside and use electricity”, it would be pretty silly not to realize that things are falling out of the sky. In many low-light locations, solar contributions can still act to cut costs or eliminate them entirely during those few really sunny days of the year. So you can smile in the sudden sun, knowing that it’s not just the sunlight that falls, but the fuel costs as well.