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Nokia N95 Turns People Into Future Traffic Monitors

by Justin

Nokia N95
A joint project conducted last Friday by Nokia, CalTrans, and Berkeley’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering used people as traffic sensors by using special traffic-monitoring software in a Nokia N95 phone with GPS. 100 UC Berkeley students all equipped with a Nokia N95 phone and a Bluetooth headset all drove a 10 mile stretch of the 880 freeway to test how cell phones can monitor and predict traffic. Via the special traffic-monitoring software in the Nokia phones, data was sent back to the company’s research facility about each car’s speed and position as the student drove. Ultimately, Nokia hopes that the software will be a much cheaper way to monitor traffic than the road sensors currently used as the majority of people own cell phones these days.

Because of the possible impact of the new technology, Nokia is moving ahead aggressively with testing, hoping to test 1000 people soon using the software in the course of their daily routines rather than during a planned, controlled one-day test.

Via CNET

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