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City Metamorphosis
There's an excellent recent article in the Boston Globe, written by Courtney Humphries and titled "The too-smart city" that looks at the concept of smart cities and asks how the influx of smart city technologies can change how cities operate and whether some of those changes are desirable in the long term. More>>

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Thermistors As Accurate Temperature Sensors Part 1: Introduction and Methods

Thermistors As Accurate Temperature Sensors
Part 2: Application and Results
By: Darren O'Connor and Kasandra O'Malia, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado
In Part 2 of this two-part article we apply our method to a real-world application and show how, by combining estimation methods with thermistor characterization data, we can achieve high accuracy measurements over a wide temperature range using the simple voltage divider circuit we described in Part 1. More>>

Thermistors As Accurate Temperature Sensors
Part 1: Introduction and Methods
By: Darren O'Connor and Kasandra O'Malia, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado
This two-part article describes how to use a simple voltage divider circuit with a thermistor to achieve high-accuracy temperature readings over broad measurement ranges. Part one discusses the circuit and various temperature estimation methods. More>>

The Smart City Project in Santander
By: Alberto Biesla, Libelium
The city of Santander in Spain is the site of a large-scale Smart City test bed. As part of this project, Libelium's wireless sensor networks are used to collect data on a range of parameters important for the health of the city and its inhabitants. More>>

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