[MLB-WIRELESS] Idea for Melbourne Wireless

[Naz Gassiep]

That really doesn't need melb wireless. There's no reason the cameras 
couldn't just upload the files to a web site on the open internet. It's 
not like a webcam quality photo once every 10 minutes is a large amount 
of data.

Peter Berrett wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I was pondering the other day about what potential uses the Melbourne
> Wireless network might be put to and an idea occurred to me.
>
> Let's say we were able to put a number of webcams around the eastern
> suburbs with the camera's trained on the petrol price boards outside of
> suburban petrol stations. A single frame could be grabbed say once a
> minute and then uploaded to a central server vi the network.
>
> A number of us live near petrol stations, in fact one of the webcams
> already one the network can look into a nearby shell station (Vermont I
> think).
>
> One can buy low cost wireless cameras on Ebay which operate at 2.4 mhz
> quite cheaply. 
>
> The end result of this would be to put up a website with live frames
> grabbed from the price boards of petrol stations in a given
> neighborhood. People could log in, compare prices and pick the cheapest
> service station. Much more effective than the ACCC!  
>
> Regards Peter
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