Articles tagged with: University Of California and Privacy

Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Road Traffic Congestion

Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area with GPS-enabled mobile phones can soon tap into new technology that promises to transform traffic monitoring. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Nokia Research Center are to release pilot software that turns cellular devices into mobile traffic probes providing real-time information on traffic flow and travel times.  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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Scientists Seek to Turn Cars Into a Mobile Communications Network

It's no secret Americans love their cars, and modern computer systems have enhanced vehicle performance and safety. For computer science professor Mario Gerla and researcher Giovanni Pau at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, the next step is to take that digital processing power and push it outward even further - by using cars as computer nodes in a mobile network on wheels. more

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