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Thursday 3 July 2014

Coming to a city near you: ‘Smart’ street lights that “track everything we do all the time”




Should you find yourself in terminal "B" at the Newark New Jersey airport, look up. Those aren't just new lights. They're SMART SURVEILLANCE LIGHTS -- a sophisticated array of LED fixtures with built-in sensors and cameras connected over a wireless network. They monitor security and the flow of foot traffic.

There's that magic buzz word being touted by private companies & our govt. 'SECURITY'!


We have to spy on everything you do for your SAFETY, this is utter nonsense and complete B.S.

In March of 2014 I reported on how Big Brother is using streetlamps to spy on you.

"Newark's primarily interested in energy saving," said Hugh Martin, president of Sensity, the Silicon Valley company that developed the smart lights at Newark and also a parking garage in San Jose.

"This week we saved $3,500 -- over $182,000 a year, in energy saved just from this," Martin said.

Saving money isn't the only reason the bulbs are in the spotlight.

"There's a motion sensor in each individual light," he said.

Across the globe, cities are phasing out old, energy-wasting incandescent and sodium bulbs and replacing them with LEDs, which can act as a power hub that can be tailored for high-tech surveillance add-ons.

Authorities in New York City announced last year that they would be replacing the city’s 250,000 street lights with new LEDs by 2017, although it is not known how many of these will feature “smart” technology.

In 2013 Spying street lights that record video & audio were installed at the Mercedes Superdome & in Vegas.

There are about 4 billion outside lights in the world today. Imagine all of those lights connected in one global spying network! 


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