There’s a ton of next-gen news coming out of Nokia’s The Way We Live Next event, including this quirky tid-bit. Nokia wants to create an up-to-the-minute weather service using sensors in billions of mobiles all over the world.
Nokia’s idea is to use the sensors already in devices, alongside those planned for inclusion in new models, to turn phones into mobile weather stations.
By combining anonymous data from billions of handsets, Nokia could quite easily monitor temperature changes around the globe, track humidity and even changes in air pressure.
The company is banking on its new phones packing all-important atmospheric sensors, and the fast rate of adoption pushing those phones all over the globe.
Sounds crazy, but it’s exactly the same thinking that’s behind Nokia’s next-gen traffic system. Keep it here for more as soon as we hear it.
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