Nokia Phones will be road traffic sensors

Nokia Phones will be road traffic sensors

The cold cloudy morning of Friday, February 8, 100 vehicles, the California university students managed Berkeley, went on the road to take part in the experiment to streamline information on the state of roads.

For observed during the experiments, company Nokia, Navteq, General Motors, BMW and CalTrans, as well as members of the press. Initiators events became California transportation center of innovation, joint venture companies Nokia and CalTrans, as well as the Office of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Berkeley.

Each participant in the experiment was extradited from Nokia N95 phone installed on
It special software-driven control road
situation (development laboratory Palo Alto, Nokia Enterprise Company), as well as a Bluetooth headset. As traffic on the highway, every phone sent to the management center of the vehicle speed and position. The data collected are used for modelling and construction of the road situation optimal route for traffic saturation.

The company Nokia hopes that the developed system will be significantly less expensive solution compared with static sensors used now, because new technology makes use of equipment, which already has most consumers cell phones. The only moment of concern when considering new technology security issue.

But Beyen Alex (Alex Bayen), Professor of the University of Berkeley, argues that the information sent by each phone, totally anonymous and contains only the required data. In addition, the active element of the system is the only telephone cast on the territory of traffic. All other machines are not tracked.