Metro Transit Bus 007 has a secret weapon. Code name: WiRover. Tucked inside a locked cabinet in the lumbering blue and white city bus is a small black box. It?s part of a UW-Madison research project that could one day lead to Internet access in every car, truck, mini-van, bus and train. Starting now, passengers on two of Metro?s 200 buses can get free Wi-Fi while they ride. WiRover was developed by the Wisconsin Wireless Networking Systems Laboratory, known as WiNGS, founded and run by Suman Banerjee, associate professor in the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences.
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