The V-Pole’s futuristic street solution for all our tech needs :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation

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The V-Pole is not only capable of providing wi-fi and boosting cellphone coverage, it would also provide a charger for electric cars. An LED light covers the illumination aspect, plus it would also incorporate an electronic system to handle parking transactions and even act as a public message board.

Each pole would cover 1.5 city blocks and run off lightRadio, which are small cubes developed by Alcatel-Lucent that shrink a mobile base station antenna into the size of a Rubik’s cube (see video below). When stacked atop each other inside the V-Pole, different cubes would cater for a range of frequencies.

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