Boston Solar Powered Benches

The benches charge 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. We ve all heard about smartphones. That is the idea behind a new boston initiative which will bring soofas solar powered benches to the city. Engoplanet s smart solar benches are new urban furniture pieces that will help parks universities retail or business centers to create better safer and more user friendly environments.

Now they re infiltrating cambridge. 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. Powered by solar energy smart bench will provide many cool features. Mayor marty walsh announced that boston will be installing solar powered benches made by soofa in several city parks.

Boston ap boston parks are going high tech with solar powered benches that will allow visitors to sit down and relax while charging their cell phones at the same time. Dubbed soofa the benches sport a solar. The first soofa bench was. 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.

Now there are smart benches. Soofa benches are already all over boston. They offer solar powered cellphone charging from the common to the rose kennedy greenway. 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.