The Swarmphones project lets multiple mobile phones ad hoc coordinate to capture media and share results.
The software employs Bluetooth, a short-range wireless technology included in many modern phones, to automatically share information and let the phones collectively analyse events that they record. This provides a platform for a group of phones to act as smart network capable of, for example, spotting intruders or identifying wildlife.
The Grinding blog notes that this is being open sourced, to deliberately let people make what use of it they can. “I think this would be best used in other places, when it becomes open source other people might brain storm and find the killer app.”
Imagine:
- Instant surveillance, swarming a target of opportunity - suspect, marchers.
- Instant sousveillance.
- Street theater, if the media capture can be then played from the same or related devices.
- Fear and panic - will my phone be repurposed by bad people, the CIA, my boss?
(via Grinding)
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