New Model of ‘Smart Campus’? Carnegie Mellon to Embed Sensors Across Landscape – Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Imagine a world where you’re driving to campus, and before you get there, your car tells you to park in one lot because it already knows another is full. That could soon be the reality at Carnegie Mellon University, where researchers have teamed up with Google to place wireless sensors around the campus to connect everyday items with the web.

The idea is to make life more convenient, and to provide useful data about the campus, said Anind K. Dey, the project’s lead investigator and an associate ...

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