By Justine Brown
TechWire
San Jose, Calif., has launched a new pilot that city leaders hope will help propel it to “smart city” status.
The city will install atop its streetights 166 Wi-Fi-connected wireless nodes that collect data — from natural disasters to traffic jams, among other things – from city streets.The data collected will then be stored, analyzed and returned to city officials to help with city planning and improve public safety.
Plans for the pilot were finalized last week with anyCOMM, an Internet of Things company based in Sacramento County, Calif., that makes the nodes.
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