Valley Wireless picked as "Best Company" for Smart Grid Technology.
Valley Wireless Holdings, Inc., based in Austin, TX, with its Valley office in Brownsville, has been chosen as the best company for Smart Grid. Valley Wireless' vendor/partner is one, TRILLIANT, a Silicon Valley company and leader of Smart Grid technology, World-wide. With completed projects in several countries, Trilliant has completed Smart Grid meter-reading projects in Anaheim (Disneyland), CA, as well as Burbank, CA and many others. Silicon Valley's own power systems are covered with Trilliant's Smart Grid system.
Valley Wireless built Matamoros as the first fully wireless city in North America. Running for over 5 years, Matamoros' network has survived two hurricanes with no down-time. Covering much of the Rio Grande Valley, Valley Wireless is currently in negotiations with several cities in Texas and beyond for this technology, saving cities and power companies millions. The Rio Grande Valley Wireless Initiative applauds Valley Wireless and are proud they have Valley origins.
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Technology: Telecommunications August 31, 2009
Austin, TX – September 7, 2009 – Valley Wireless Holdings, LLC., of Austin, Texas, has selected Austin-based MyTurf Wireless LLC as the advertising platform across its RGV wireless Internet network.
THIS IS THE ANSWER FOR A MUCH-NEEDED COMPREHENSIVE VALLEY-WIDE EMERGENCY NETWORK
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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 31, 2009 --
Media Contact: Jon Weisblatt, WhiteLeaf Marketing 512-423-0459 jon@whiteleafmarketing.com
Valley Wireless Holdings, Inc., will deploy MyTurf Wireless, LLC., technology across the entire Cameron County, Texas, area, including the more remote Port Isabel and South Padre Island areas. MyTurf will enable communities in Cameron County to replace national Internet display ads with local public emergency and health information in advance of a disaster. The Valley Wireless network will be open in crisis situations, providing critical information to first responders, county workers, and other emergency personnel. Citizens with laptops or smart phones will also have access in those situations to assist escape or rescue.
During these times, Valley Wireless servers automatically switch to remote servers, keeping vital equipment out of harm’s way. “Because so many people are on the Internet, the MyTurf platform is an ideal way for a community to broaden the ways its citizens become aware of a crisis situation, and what actions to take,” said City Wireless Consultant Bobby Vassallo. “As MyTurf has already designed and built the infrastructure for both McAllen and Pharr in the North Rio Grande Valley, it was an easy choice to continue the winning solution in Brownsville and Cameron County.”
“Thanks to Valley Wireless, customers in the Cameron County area will start seeing benefits from Internet-based local community awareness through MyTurf technology very quickly,” said Tom Dye, CEO, MyTurf. “Community awareness is just one important benefit that MyTurf provides to customers.. We’re looking forward to enhancing the investments that ISP’s and communities have made in their Internet infrastructures.”
About Valley WirelessValley Wireless delivers services all over the Rio Grande Valley. The company has completed projects in several countries on three continents, covering cities with WiMax/WiFi services including Video-Surveillance, Local Hotspots, Mobile Wireless for Police, Fire and Ambulance, Meter Reading, and SCADA services. admin@valleywireless.us.
About MyTurf MyTurf provides unique Internet-based advertising opportunities for ISPs across the globe. For information on MyTurf, contact: admin@myturfwireless.com. # # #
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6665 Padre Island Hiway, Brownsville, TX 78521 512-308-6101
McAllen bids in!
The Rio Grande Valley Wireless Initiative is a joint 
The Rio Grande Valley Wireless Initiative's driving force is user centricity: RGV wireless communications systems will have to provide all cities with immediate added value.
As the Rio Grande Valley matures in Wireless technology, consensus-building amongst our many towns will become increasingly difficult. Rio Grande Valley Wireless Initiative was formed to develop a ubiquitous network plan, prior to any competitive environment.
Imagine, if you will, how collaborative research can create the perfect network allowing, say, a police car or an emergency vehicle from Brownsville, driving over to McAllen and, although now on the McAllen grid, be operating back on its Brownsville systems as if it had never left. Conversely, a McAllen vehicle could be in Harlingen or Edinburg or Mission or Pharr and still be "up" on its home systems in McAllen. Try doing that after all the cities have built diverse systems which won't communicate!
Another fact is that on a homogenous system as described above, Emergency Medical Services become immediately achieveable. If a major storm blows in off the Gulf, and a firetruck or ambulance is needed in another jurisdiction, that vehicle will still enjoy full communications capabilities from GPS to Streaming Video to Voice. Try that anywhere else. Impossible.
All agree that cities should have their own private networks, but that doesn't mean these cities can't share bandwidth with sister-cities in the valley, to further enhance public safety. And, much has been learned from the mistakes of other cities, wasting huge sums of money on systems that would never work.
With FEMA and Homeland Security moneys readily available for access to systems built correctly, it only makes sense for each of the Rio Grande Valley Wireless Initiative member cities to receive some or total repayment for construction of this network. Please continue onto the following pages, realizing the importance of cooperation amongst Valley cities now. The Rio Grande Valley Wireless Initiative was formed because "Lives depend on it."