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Browsing Reality With Sensor Networks

Posted by timothy on from the hey-what's-going-on-there dept.

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."

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  1. Total Information Awareness by Hatta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US gov't wants to do this kind of thing, not with sensors but with data from credit cards, libraries, schools, airlines, etc. I haven't been too worried about this so far, considering that we don't have the technology to pull useful data out of all that noise, but if we can do it with sensor networks, who knows. How long until all of those cameras at intersections are hooked up into one all-seeing electronic mind that will always know where you're going and what you do when you get there?

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  2. Re:Boycott Slashdot! by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I say boycott slashdot until one of the following are met:

    1) We get a Roland Piquepaille section.
    2) Slashdot stops taking kickbacls
    3) Slashdot distributes kickbacks to readers.
    I'd settle for the ability to:
    1: Make Roland Piquepaille a foe
    2: Block my foe's submissions from my view of the front page

    Failing that, howsabout you just ignore his submissions and move on to the next story?
    /me forgot to check the submitter on this one. 'Doh!

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  3. Yeah, it's Roland the Plogger again by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is getting really annoying. Either put the bozo in his own section or stop posting his stupid ads. Or at least edit them to reference the original story, not the Plogged version. This is like being subscribed to PR Newswire.