The Array of Things sensors that will collect temperature, light, traffic and other data will start rolling out in Chicago this summer. By Amina Elahi. UPDATED: May 21, 2019 at 5:39 AM CDT.

The first two fixtures, equipped with a wide array of sensors, have been installed, with hundreds more to follow. Here’s what they do (and what they don’t do).

Chicago’s Array of Things sensor network has approved a privacy policy that leaves one big question open: how the city would deal with law-enforcement requests for data gathered by the program ...

The Array of Things is still very much in flux, though. The Urban CCD's main priority is getting the nodes to collect and publish the data. They're planned to roll out slowly, ...

What is the Array of Things? According to its official website, AoT is “an urban sensing project, a network of interactive, modular sensor boxes that will be installed around Chicago to collect ...

The Array of Things will gather rich additional data to address such questions, with several kinds of measurements taken often and at numerous locations. By making the sensor output free and open, the ...

The Array of Things is also expanding beyond Chicago through a project called SAGE. Unlike other urban sensing systems, which tend to be proprietary, SAGE allows anyone to write software for its ...

This week in Chicago, the Array of Things team begins the first phase of the groundbreaking urban sensing project, installing the first of an eventual 500 nodes on city streets. By measuring data on ...

The Array of Things project in Chicago, led by the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, the Computation Institute, and the School of the Art Institute Chicago, is installing ...

Expanding the Array of Things to Other Cities. While Chicago is the first to get its hands on the Array of Things project, other cities will benefit from the innovative technology as well. Seattle is ...

The Array of Things is expanding outside Chicago. But only to cities that have partnerships with a local university or research institution. The project, which aims to deploy a fleet of multi ...