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Forming New Mobile Networks With People-Borne Sensors

Posted by timothy on from the game-of-telephone dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Medical Daily: "Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile internet networks by carrying wearable sensors. According to researchers from Queen's University Belfast, the novel sensors could create new ultra high bandwidth mobile internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations. The engineers from Queen's renowned Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), are working on a new project based on the rapidly developing science of body centric communications."

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  1. Might work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have seen a project to map traffic congestions by letting peoples use a application on their cell phone
    that monitors through GPS its speed and location.
    This works quite well.

    1. Re:Might work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      At least one user fell for it. Trolls rejoice!

  2. umm no it does not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just checked the link and it is exactly as described, it is the legit ieee802.org