Cell Phones to Monitor Traffic In California Trial

February 01st, 2008 | Category: Gadget News

Some 100 UC Berkeley students will participate in an experiment called Mobile Century next week in which they’ll use GPS-equipped Nokia N95 mobile phones as TRAFFIC SENSORS. The students will drive all day amoung the

Northern-California towns of ward and Fremont, while their locations will be uploaded to a server every 3 seconds. The experiment will tryout the superiority of cell-phone-based real-time traffic monitoring by the current fixed system.

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