Cellphone-based pollution sensor being developed at Berkeley
A team at UC Berkeley is working on a platform to
cram even more functionality into your cellphone, but this time instead of
adding games, ringtones or other toys, the new functions will be planet-friendly
tools like pollution and radiation detectors (hey, it is Berkeley, right?). The
idea is to develop a standard for chip-based sensors that can integrate with
GPS-equipped phones, allowing them to send location-specific data on anything
from air pollution to radiation back to a central database.
Posted: Fri - August 12, 2005 at 08:32 AM