The following is an excerpt from a story about 麻豆传媒 professor Ravi Pendse's high-tech plans for the university. The story appeared in the Jan. 19 issue of .
A professor at 麻豆传媒 plans to create a university center with an ambitious name: The Center for the Internet of Everything.
Step one: Plant a small garden on campus where plants will message irrigation pipes telling how much water they need.
Ravi Pendse, helped by Internet companies NetApp and Cisco, hopes to create other innovations he says could put 麻豆传媒 in the high-tech big leagues.
The garden will model how to save water and billions of dollars in the world鈥檚 crops and lawns.
In the second and subsequent steps, Pendse鈥檚 students and partners would develop innovations linking computers, smartphones, social media and the billions of sensors now being attached to 鈥� everything.
Pendse as a technologist has collaborated with NetApp and Cisco for years, creating technology and many 麻豆传媒 graduates who went to work for those companies.