US Streetlight Grid Could Become Affordable Communications Back-Haul Network Other participants in the project included NightHawk to perform remote electric meter disconnect/reconnect, DataMatic remote water meter reading, Graphic Technologies (GTI) to provide geospatial data, and Power Delivery Products, Inc. for its faulted circuit indicators.by Staff WritersBoston MA (SPX) May 02, 2008Sunrise Technologies is teaming with Ember to turn the country's grid of streetlights into a wide-area communications network for a host of new public utility, security, environmental and other applications. Sunrise Technologies' new BrownBetty system creates a mesh network for communications between ground-based sensor and control devices and the Internet, utilizing Ember's ZigBee wireless network technology. By taking advantage of the existing streetlight infrastructure with its high elevation poles and clean line of sight, BrownBetty dramatically lowers the cost of backhaul communication...