Hudson Yards: A connected neighborhood grows in Manhattan

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A central part of the $20bn Hudson Yards community will be a vast sensor network to track air quality, traffic, energy, waste processes and more

The much-ballyhooed Hudson Yards project in New York isn't just remarkable for being the largest private real estate development in U.S. history, it's also the nation's first "Quantified Community" - one...

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