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  Posted by Tom on Sep 15, 2009 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: peopleSystems (6), sensing (5), smartCities (38), tracking

  Researchers from MIT’s Senseable Cities Lab are starting a project that will tag and track 3,000 pieces of trash in Seattle to see where it ends up. http://tr.im/yOG3

   

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  Posted by Tom on Apr 15, 2009 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: monitoring (4), smartCities (38), surveillance (5), tracking, video (16), videoAnalytics

  Article on Chicago’s use of ‘smart surveillance’ as part of “operation virtual shield,” and has a pointer to Nancy LaVigne, Urban Institute who is doing a study of surveillance camera use in four cities. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=6138580#bodyText

   
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  Posted by Tom on Apr 3, 2009 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: monitoring (4), realityMining (3), sensors (7), smartCities (38), tracking

  Interesting discussion of uses of mobile sensors (accleromters, barometers, humidity, temperature, light, compass, microphone) to provide data for making inferences about behavior. See http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/18990/?a=f (and note that the article really isn’t about the iPhone).

   
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  Posted by Tom on with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: GPS (2), monitoring (4), realityMining (3), sensors (7), smartCities (38), tracking

  Video and article about startup “Sense Network” that can identify hotspots of activity in an urban area. A forthcoming update to their service (called “Citysense”) identifies “tribes” of people by similarities in their behavior (inferred from their movements as tracked by their GPS-endowed cell phones) and shows the changing locations of the tribes over time (e.g., the course of an evening). Applications include showing where “people like me” spend time, and providing targeted ads.