Boston Solar Powered Benches

Boston and a handful of other large cities including jersey city n j boulder and austin have installed these smart benches which use solar panels to power mobile devices such as phones.

Boston solar powered benches.

Soofa as the bench is termed is a solar powered outdoor charging station that also collects and shares location based information like air quality and noise level data. A number of parks in the boston area shall soon receive solar powered smart benches courtesy of changing environments an mit media lab spin off company. That is the idea behind a new boston initiative which will bring soofas solar powered benches to the city. Soofa benches are already all over boston.

They offer solar powered cellphone charging from the common to the rose kennedy greenway. Soofa wins boston small business of the year award for innovation and growth may 27 2020 each year the greater boston chamber of commerce recognizes six small businesses for their contributions to the region their customers employees and communities. The benches charge phones. We ve all heard about smartphones.

Boston solar installed a 8 5kw ground based system at my home in boxford ma in oct. Mayor marty walsh announced that boston will be installing solar powered benches made by soofa in several city parks. The first soofa bench was. Powered by solar energy smart bench will provide many cool features.

Boston some boston area parks will be piloting a 21st century bench upgrade through a partnership with the mit media lab spin off firm changing environments. Going solar is a significant investment so while the economics made sense from the very first meeting i needed to take the time to ensure i was understand. Now they re infiltrating cambridge. Dubbed soofa the benches sport a solar.