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Browsing Reality With Sensor Networks
Roland Piquepaille writes "Welcome to the world of 'Reality Mining'! The billions of networked sensors that exist today are generating humongous streams of data. What about 'data mining' this big flow of data and discover our environment in a way that never existed before? Suddenly, sensors would look like pixels and we would start to browse reality as easily as we browse web pages today. Fascinating concept! Some fellows at Accenture Technology Labs are thinking about this and they already have designed some demos of reality mining software. Their demos include web agents, data modeling, GIS systems and much more. They also show how you could detect fires or how you would do virtual shopping. Please read their long article or this shorter summary for a couple of examples."
People have been talking about integrating sensor networks like this for a long time. One issue that comes up often is what to do about privacy - especially with regard to image data. You can put a camera on every building in town - and you can be guaranteed that at least one person per day will object to having their picture taken and used for some open-source data fusion project.
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If he wasn't running all of the ads on his site then he would be okay, for the most part, under "fair use." Running the ads makes his site commercial so he does need permission from copyright holders to reprint/reproduce their work. I have no idea if he does this or not.
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No catch phrase bullsh!t here:
http://www.ewcd.org/ - about 80 remote monitoring stations updated hourly.
http://www.sevierriver.org/ - something similar