Smarten up the place with sensors

摘要

If the SMART element of ADEPT's ￡23m Government-funded Live Labs was an acronym, the 'S' would stand for sensors. A graphic in its End of Year One report, which gave an update on the work of eight projects, shows the types of suppliers involved. One type has almost double the number of any other category: sensors. In reality, SMART often means doing technologically advanced things with data and sensors are one key way of providing the source material.Buckinghamshire Council's Live Lab project plans to use what it calls illuminated data access points (iDAPS) - installing SMART sensors on lighting columns and elsewhere to give a real-time view of the network.