AoT is now an anchor partner in a new NSF-funded project called SAGE.

In late 2018 the AoT team proposed a new effort to the National Science Foundation's Mid-Scale Research Infrastuructre program, with an expanded vision, building on all of the lessons learned from the AoT project and creating a new hardware and software infrastructure. Successfully funded with a start of October 2019, the new NSF-funded project, called SAGE: A Software-Defined Sensor Network , will result in a migration of AoT functions to new devices in 2021. SAGE is led by Northwestern University in partnership with the Discovery Partners Institute (University of Illinois), University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Colorado, the University of California-San Diego, Northern Illinois University, Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, the University of Utah, and George Mason University. To read more about the AoT and SAGE projects, here are a few of the many papers published by the team.

Welcome to the Array of Things, an intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life.

The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use. AoT uses an open intelligent sensing and edge computing platform called Waggle, developed at Argonne National Laboratory. AoT is funded primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Read about the team behind Array of Things and Waggle in IotEvolution

To learn more about the project and its updates, check out:

If you have an idea for Array of Things sensors or node locations, please submit it here. For research partners who would like to get involved with Array of Things or the SAGE project, please send us an e-mail.

Project Updates

With a grant from Motorola Solutions Foundation, we're expanding our "Lane of Things" workshop into a broader "School of Things" curriculum that introduces high school and middle school students to sensor technology and data science. Read more on the AoT blog.

Data from Array of Things nodes is currently available as bulk downloads and via API, and will soon be available at the City of Chicago Data Portal. Read more about the API release at the AoT blog.

We're excited to announce our first group of partner projects, deployments of AoT nodes in Palo Alto, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chapel Hill, and Syracuse in collaboration with local universities, government, and industry. You can also learn more about becoming an AoT research partner at our new Partners page.

The Chicago Tribune covered our 2018 Lane of Things workshop, where high school students built and installed their own sensors to collect data on weather, sound, and fan sentiment at Wrigley Field.

In May, Array of Things installed its 100th node in Chicago! Read about the first hundred nodes, the first batch of released data, and this year's Lane of Things program.