05 Sep 2009
Smartphone determines your place
Site said, "Life Science" The American team of Duke University of America created a new smart phone system that can determine your location within a building, which is not able to Global Positioning System "GPS" of his work so far. And runs a "SurroundSense" to send information from a sensitive accelerometer, a camera and microphone with your phone, to a server generates a fingerprint that indicate where you are.
The movement of "Life Science" for a team member saying he can not talk about any tool of sensor units, but that when the data involved visual, auditory, motor creates a unique fingerprint of a vacuum.
The Web site said a margin of error in determining the site did not exceed 13% when it was tested in 51 different location by using all the possibilities of remote sensing into the phone.
The site that the system needs to be a long period of work and processing, which can not work until now, when it is put the phone in a briefcase or the like, which disrupted a camera phone to work.
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Displaying a "Intel" specialized in the manufacture of chip processor computers the next generation of faster, smaller chip for laptops, notebooks, ultra mobile, including categories for the devices, including smart phones, next week during the events, "the Intel Developer Forum" in San Francisco.