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Cellphones to Monitor Highway Traffic

Posted by Zonk on from the using-the-fillings-in-your-teeth dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "On February 8, 2008, about 100 UC Berkeley students will participate in the Mobile Century experiment, using GPS mobile phones as traffic sensors. During the whole day, these students carrying the GPS-equipped Nokia N95 will drive along a 10-mile stretch of I-880 between Hayward and Fremont, California. 'The phones will store the vehicles' speed and position information every 3 seconds. These measurements will be sent wirelessly to a server for real-time processing.' As more and more cellphones are GPS-equipped, the traffic engineering community, which currently monitors traffic using mostly fixed sensors such as cameras and loop detectors, is tempted to use our phones to get real-time information about traffic."

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  1. Bad bad bad by FreeDisk.nl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad. Anyone who doesn't know why?

  2. "What did you do..." by FreeDisk.nl · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "So Dad, what did you do while you were in college?"

    "Well son, I helped testing this monitoring system that allows the government and some big companies to track your every move nowadays. But in my time, they only used it to do a traffic thingy."