Articles tagged with: Berkeley and Privacy

Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Road Traffic Congestion

..then relayed back to the mobile phones and posted online at www.traffic.berkeley.edu. The software is being developed as part of the Mobile Millennium project by researchers from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, Nokia Research Center, Pal more

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Using GPS Handsets to Monitor Road Traffic Problems

Nokia and the University of California (UC) berkeley researchers have tested technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through congested highways and obtain information about road conditions. One hundred cars equipped with the GPS-enabled Nokia N95, and driven by students from the University of California, traveled a 10-mile stretch of highway near San Francisco to show how real-time traffic information can be collected from the GPS feed, while preserving the privacy of the devices' owners.  more

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