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Tuesday, June 23. 2009
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Another indication GPS tracking is a commodity
Pilot, the fuel/convenience stores often seen at travel plazas, just stuck a deal with PROCON to offer fleet services tracking. The key selling point? The cost is added to Pilot's fuel card system.
- press release
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Monday, June 8. 2009
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Japanese Govt Funding "Infection Tracking" via Cell Experiment
The idea is see how/if cell phones that track location can help track and respond to a "made up" illness and thus be valuable in a real situation. A subsidiary of Softbank Corp., a major Japanese Internet and cellular provider, proposed a system that uses phones to limit pandemics and hopes to be selected to test it in an elementary school. Students will carry cell phones and be tracked minute by minute. Several will be identified as "infected" and those they "interact with" may thus be infect too. Parents will be notified to bring the child to the doctor.
There are many issues related to privacy, participation, notification to be addressed, so testing out reactions in a "made up scenario" is a good way to identify them.
- AP
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Thursday, May 14. 2009
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DARPA Funds Inertial Tracking In Shoes
The Register reports that Massachusetts Intersense announced a DARPA funded contract to work with Case Western university to deliver tiny yet highly accurate inertial-nav units under a programme called Micro Inertial Navigation Technology (MINT). The idea is to put the technology in shoes because the feet don't bend and wriggle like the rest of the body, which improves accuracy. The larger vision is to use the tech in drones and robots that will do their work indoors and perhaps tag "persons on interest."
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Wednesday, May 13. 2009
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Keeping Your GPS Tracking Legal (Hint: Ok in Illinois, Not in NY)
The New York Times reports that a state appleas court struck down a lower court ruling that allowed state police to track a suspect using GPS without a warrant. Judges cited the state constitution as their guide since there is no Federal law on the books.
A Federal district court came up with a fully different response in a similar case last week: The court, in "Wisconsin decided that police can stick a GPS-tracking device on anyone they want without getting a search warrant. Even if that person is not suspected of anything more than living, breathing and expectorating." (C|net)
So, be careful out there!
Hat tip to Duane.
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Wednesday, May 6. 2009
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Would you Feel Safer if University Authorized App did the Tracking?
Students at Princeton will found out. Tiger Finder is going live and will per a blog associated with the school paper allow you to find "the exact locations on campus of all your closest acquaintances."
The interesting thing is that to access the app you need formal university credentials. I can state that at least at Penn State those are not that easy to get (even if you are on the faculty!) Further, there's no anonymity, which may make some potential users feel more secure in using the app over say a commercial one. The relationship of the app to the school is unclear from the blog post, but I did find that the app was developed in COS 333 and will be presented on Friday. Oh, and I do like the name!
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Wednesday, April 8. 2009
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GPS-enabled....inhalers
David Van Sickle, an epidemiologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has rigged up asthma inhalers linked to GPS devices. The idea is to locate where asthma sufferers are when they need their medication. For now, he's looking for 31 volunteers in a trial of the devices which are about the size of an inhaler paired with a nine-volt battery. In time, he hopes to have folks all over the country tracking where attacks happen.
- Discovery
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