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Monday, February 4, 2008

Mobile Phones as Environmental Sensors

Mobile phones are a form of ubiqutous computing.
The connected crowd (Rheingold).

Sensors on phones include:
sound
vision
location (GPS, cell-id, wifi)
movement (accelerometers)
ad hoc bluetooth devices

Now projects using mobiles to collect environmental data are becoming common place:
Cellphones to monitor highway traffic

Cellphones to detect dirty bombs?

Cellphones to track air pollution

Capturing ambient intelligence

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