http://gpsobsessed.com/mobile-millenium-bay-area-gps-enabled-traffic-project-launching-monday/ GPS, Location-Based Apps, And Everything Else Navigational Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://gpsobsessed.com/mobile-millenium-bay-area-gps-enabled-traffic-project-launching-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Bluetooth The Latest Vehicle Tracking Innovation — GPS Obsessed Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:04:25 +0000 http://gpsobsessed.com/?p=2669#comment-550 [...] Mobile Millenium may be trying to sort out the traffic problems in the Bay Area, but engineering students at Purdue University are doing something a little more interesting.  The students have come up with a way to track traffic without the use of GPS.  Nope, they’re not involved with Aichi Steel, they’re using Bluetooth.  Because each Bluetooth signal is unique, the Purdue students were able to track the vehicular traffic leaving a recent Penn State football game by using 13 tracking stations along Interstate 65.  They actually found that a 5.2 mile northern route took half the time to travel than the 4.2 mile southern route! [...] [...] Mobile Millenium may be trying to sort out the traffic problems in the Bay Area, but engineering students at Purdue University are doing something a little more interesting.  The students have come up with a way to track traffic without the use of GPS.  Nope, they’re not involved with Aichi Steel, they’re using Bluetooth.  Because each Bluetooth signal is unique, the Purdue students were able to track the vehicular traffic leaving a recent Penn State football game by using 13 tracking stations along Interstate 65.  They actually found that a 5.2 mile northern route took half the time to travel than the 4.2 mile southern route! [...]

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