Nokia embeds sensor in people

Nokia has inculcated a special traffic monitoring software in its N95 model with GPS. As the students drove the freeway, the phone sent data about each car's swiftness and position back to the company's research competence. The data is compiled and used to envisage traffic patterns and assist drivers get where they need to be quickly. Nokia hopes that one day the system could be a significantly cheaper way to track traffic than the permanent sensors installed in roadways or next to them because it uses equipment most people already own which is none other than cell phones.

One may wish to see the extent of privacy involved in this device. The information sent from each phone is designed to keep each "moving traffic sensor" anonymous. When the information is sent to Nokia the entire personal identifying signal is stripped from the data, and encryption methods on the level of what banks use is employed to keep information private. Also, the traffic monitoring software only broadcasts information when it senses the phone has entered a specific area, like a highway. The data from the phones will be sent back to the Nokia Research Center where a team will analyze the expediency of the data and determine what comes next. Thus this technology enables us to take a whooping stride into the future of traffic information collecting and data processing.