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The smart-city loop
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Sense, decide, adjust — continuously, without waiting for a budget cycle.
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Who a sensor network misses
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People walking, people without phones, and areas that were never instrumented.
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Why automatic adjustment resists challenge
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There is no meeting and no decision to point at, so residents have nothing to appeal against.
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Connection as a risk
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What makes infrastructure efficient makes it reachable — a pipeline shutdown stopped fuel for a region with nobody touching a pipe.
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