Internet-connected street lights? S.F. teams with Sigfox on pilot

San Francisco Chronicle: City officials agreed to run a one-year pilot project with Sigfox, a French company that is building a low-power Internet of Things wireless network now in hopes of someday cashing in on the boom.

The city plans to encourage entrepreneurs to invent more devices that will connect with the network. Miguel Gamiño, the city’s technology department director and chief information officer, compared San Francisco to ancient governments, which built networks of roads specifically to move armies.

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