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When Cellphones Become Webservers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-that-an-apache-in-your-pocket? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nokia is experimenting with turning mobile phones into webservers, according to an interesting article on Linux Devices. Nokia has ported the Apache webserver and a few other software modules to the Symbian OS that runs its phones, but there shouldn't be any barrier to adapting the technique to Linux mobile phones, since it all appears to be released under Linux-friendly open source licenses. Just think of the possibilities of having a webserver in your pocket!"

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  1. Engineering monitoring applications by Reverberant · · Score: 4, Interesting
    But an actual web server?

    It could be great for engineers like me that deploy a lot of short-term and long-term measurement systems (noise/vibration/temperature/wind speed/etc) and want to make the data available in real-time to interested parties (e.g. a local community).

    Currently, the only way to disseminate this info is:

    • manually download the info every X days and stick it on a "real" webserver (time consuming, possibly impractical depending on location, weather, etc)
    • hook up a laptop with a cellmodem to the unit (expensive, power hungry), and
    • hook up a land line (very expensive).

    I would love to just be able to hook up a cellphone to the data logging unit, and just point people to www.city-noise-monitoring.org/site1. Yeah I know, niche application.

    The only issues I see:

    1. can I interface my unit to the phone using serial or bluetooth? and
    2. will the cell phone companies have a reasonable data-rate plan?

    I for one will be watching out for this.