Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud-Connected Homes in New Smart City

The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar–yes, this is a story we’ve heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal. Living PlanIT , which calls itself “one of the world’s leading smart city and urban development technology providers” has been working on a plan for a smart city in northern Portugal for quite a while–currently a 2013 unveiling looks likely

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Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud-Connected Homes in New Smart City