Smartphones, smart appliances and smart cars are increasingly part of daily life, and finding new ways for all those devices with smart sensors to talk to each other is an industry that is growing exponentially. Michigan is angling for its slice of the "smart roads" market. As Lindsay VanHulle details in a related story, roads equipped with smart sensors can do practical things for drivers like provide advance notice of potholes and icy patches via connected car technologies. Early adoption of
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