From Teaneck to Cape May, the New Jersey highways are among some of the most heavily traveled roads in the country. 600 Million people traverse the 360 miles of highway made up by the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway each year. Safety and communication are of paramount importance for maintaining order along such important conduits for intrastate and interstate transport.
Though no one’s citing any specific non-Snooki-related situations that have taken place en route to the Jersey Shore, the state’s transit authority found it essential that its technological capabilities allow for an improved travel experience for motorists on the crowded roadway. Airspan, and Pinnacle Wireless will play a pivotal role in the a statewide project to deploy a system that will enable better communications, monitoring, and control along state roads.
The operation will divide the space into 100 WiMax sectors on the 4.9GHz band across the entirety of both the turnpike and parkway. Taking advantage of Airspan’s advanced technology HiperMAX base stations, Pinnacle Wireless will deploy a WiMax network that will allow for New Jersey’s Transit Authority to monitor traffic and closed-circuit TV cameras of highway activity. It will also give them speedy access to roadside message signs and weather information systems, should they need to be adjusted.
Despite the project’s “many unique requirements,” Airspan’s President of Sales and Products Amit Ancikovsky sees the NJTA being able “to quickly complete this project ensuring the increased safetyand convenience of millions of drivers.” The familiarity between Airspan and Pinnacle Wireless should help expedite the process, as the two companies have worked together on some other major WiMax deployments across the state– most notably for for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority with communications coverage of Meadowlands and Monmouth Park.
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