In Paris, the City of Light, wireless mesh networks are helping to retrofit street lights in that iconic city, the first part of a multistep process to manage a complex array of thousands of streetlights, streetlight control boxes, traffic signal control boxes and other elements of Paris' public lighting and traffic control infrastructure. Parking and lighting — as well as their first cousins, electric vehicle charging stations — are attracting scores of companies, from global superpowers such as IBM, Cisco and Schneider Electric, to disruptive start-ups seeking to become an indispensible part of the smart urban infrastructure. It's still in the early days, but we see a growing number of companies across a wide range of sectors entering the "smart city" space.
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