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Notes de l'éditeur
&quot;Intelligent infrastructure has attached or built-in components that are able to collect and transmit information about the state of the infrastructure to a central computer, and in some cases receive back instruction from the computer, which triggers controlling devices.“
collection and analysis of data to create knowledge which is used as feedback to modify the behaviour of the infrastructure. This principle can be applied to a simple traffic light signalling system or a complex transportation system
Lower Left: Making ethanol at Joule Unlimited&apos;s pilot plant in Austin