Feb 23 2008
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TomTom to use cellphone data to determine traffic conditions
I thought they must be doing something along these lines. TomTom have a with Vodafone (disclaimer, Vodafone are a client), to anonymously process the location and speed of Vodafone cellphones on roads (worked out from cell towers)…and relay this as traffic condition data to new TomTom devices with an embedded Vodafone SIM.
Putting aside the real-world computational issues (it’s a bloody interesting design problem), this is another really interesting move to embedded…
