CitySense - An Open, Urban-Scale Sensor Network Testbed

Engineers at Harvard and BNN Technologies are working on a project that will cover the city of Cambridge, MA, with wireless-sensor nodes mounted to telephone poles that could allow researchers to see the specific locations and times of day when pollution peaks. The researchers could also track the city's weather with more precision and help test new wireless technology for better Wi-Fi. The network will be an open test bed on which anyone can run experiments, says Matt Welsh, a professor of computer science at Harvard. Read more.