Collecting data on the downpour
Agencies are collecting data on Hurricane Harvey and making it available to emergency response teams.
DARPA wants 'living sensors' for surveillance
The military's research arm wants to replace common sensor elements with marine plants and animals that provide data about their environment through natural behaviors.
Rat problems? In D.C., data could help
Washington, D.C., has created the Lab @ DC help make policy decisions driven by what’s in the numbers. Rodent abatement is one initiative.
NOAA casts a net for emerging tech
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants new observing capabilities and applications that process environmental data.
Getting smart on trash collection
Pittsburgh plans to add fill-sensor technology to its trash-collection workflow.
Lafayette taps IoT for air quality data
City government, industry and university partners are building an interactive smart city platform for Lafayette, La.
Design and resilience key for smart city sensors
The success of Chicago's Array of Things sensor net depends not only on the resilience of the hardware but the look of the nodes, according to the project’s lead.
Cities explore environmental sensor networks
Baltimore and Lafayette, La., won $40,000 in seed money from the EPA for their plans to build systems to measure and manage environmental sensor data.
Ohio builds out its smart road
Ohio’s open road laboratory features high-capacity fiber-optic cables and sensors to communicate with autonomous and connected vehicles.
Sensor-equipped cockroaches to the rescue
Biobots can be dispatched into damaged buildings or other hazardous environments to collect data.
Crowdsourced mapping for flood tracking, prediction
In Norfolk, Va., researchers use drone video on YouTube, a mobile app and GIS software to analyze regional flooding.
How connected devices, weather data will improve road safety
The Department of Transportation is wrapping up a multiyear pilot that uses sensors on state maintenance vehicle fleets to better predict traffic and weather conditions.
‘Living Bridge’ pioneers smart infrastructure
Lights and sensors monitoring the structure and environmental conditions around New Hampshire’s Memorial Bridge are powered by underwater turbines.
Smart inhalers help monitor air pollution
The AIR Louisville program uses smart connected inhalers that track when, where and how often asthma patients use their devices.
SF’s legacy tech undercounted public transit riders
As a result of measurement errors, San Francisco’s transit agency inaccurately reported ridership declines from fiscal year 2014 to 2015.
EPA opens its Smart City Air Challenge
The challenge will award $40,000 in seed money to two communities that demonstrate the best air quality data collection and sharing strategies.
Faster and more accurate flood prediction
StormSense, a new flood forecasting project, will give emergency managers in coastal towns flood predictions so accurate that residents can be notified if they need to move their car one street over.
Cities must adapt to autonomous vehicles
The design of sidewalks, streets, buildings and even traffic lights could change once computers are in the driver’s seat.
Drone collects El Niño data
The data collected by the NASA Global Hawk will help scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration better understand El Niño's influence on weather in the United States.
Can smart shirts keep first responders safer?
A biometric clothing company and an IoT data management firm demonstrated how data from sensor-laden clothing can improve situational awareness in an emergency.
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