And a report prepared by France's finance ministry criticised SocGen's procedures for monitoring its trades, adding to the pressure on Daniel Bouton, the bank's chairman, to step down.

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Each sensor, which is shaped like a hexagon and is about twice as thick as a hockey puck, is capable of monitoring the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure of virtually any object you can think of.

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With regulatory pressure increasing on energy hogs like data centers, the landlord with the best monitoring systems has the edge.

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