Photos: The technology mile of Islington
On wireless walkabout in the London borough
Upper Street in Islington is close to Arsenal's football ground. The council has installed a wireless internet network along the road and parts of the A1.
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This is Spots Dry Cleaners - a shop that is about to use the wireless service for CCTV...
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Meet Naveed and owner of the shop, Engin Echref, who plans to install a high-tech till system that will email customers when their clothes have been cleaned...
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The CCTV cameras will mean Engin can monitor the shop when he's not there. He says: "The cameras are high resolution and I can log on anywhere. If I get a call at 3am I can zoom in and pin point something in real time, plus the images are stored externally."
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Now meet Thor - silicon.com's guinea pig for the wireless service. This café is just outside the town hall, so reception should be pretty good. Alas, it is not.
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So Thor goes outside but still the signal is slow and weak...
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Thor takes a walk down to the churchyard. Here reception is much better. "It's faster than an internet café," he says.
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