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Data Explosion from Location DevicesPaul Kedrosky muses about the amount of data that would be generated if every mobile device that could be networked were to generate location data. I imagine the picture looks a lot nicer for non-continuous data (like how smart dust motes periodically wake, transmit, then go back to sleep) and even better when you factor in the slope of adoption of location and networking rather than assuming it all happens at once. But if we ever do get to the fully-networked fully-location-aware stage of technological existence, I hope I had the wisdom to buy Cisco stock :-)
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Comments: 1
Harvey Appelbe [16 December 2005 08:26 AM]
Unless Cisco buy into some pretty serious ad-hoc distributed networking technology - I fear you'd be disappointed.
In the hope that by applying a charge for the time, type and distance of road usage, we can bring traffic congestion under control, Europe is working on location data from every vehicle. A recent EC Directive is pushing for every vehicle to reporting it's road usage - based on GPS (GNSS).
While the EU's wireless operators lick their chops at the prospect of doubling their capacity and revenue to support this - R&D work is finding novel solutions around them. One approach I like most is 'parasitic networking'. In this model the vehicles, which are travelling past each other carry and exchange the data via unregulated short range radio.
With this type of network, drivers can see into their future, from the information broadcast by the passing vehicles that have just been there.