The city of Santander is an old seaport on the north coast of Spain. A couple times a week, a ferry brings over a handful of English tourists who crowd the beautiful beaches of Playa de la Magdalena and El Sardinero, and shop and dine in the city’s historic center. Otherwise, the Spanish city of 180,000 has little interaction with the foreign world. Or at least that was until Santander was chosen four years ago to become Europe’s test bed for a sensor-based smart city.
Image: Santander, Spain's sensors measure everything from the amount of trash in containers, to the number of parking spaces available, to the size of crowds on the sidewalks. Flickr/FreeBird
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