[privacy] MIT's Cartel mobile surveillance network

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

An interesting car tracking system is being developed at MIT that uses open
WiFi access points to get Internet access:
 
http://cartel.csail.mit.edu/
 
Project Goals: 

The goal of the CarTel project is to design and deploy a mobile distributed
sensor computing system. Applications built on top of this system can
collect, process, deliver, and visualize data from sensors located on mobile
units such as automobiles. CarTel's design meets three sets of challenges: 


1.      providing a simple application programming interface 

2.      handling intermittent and variable network connectivity 

3.      handling data heterogeneity 

See project overview <http://cartel.csail.mit.edu/overview.html> , hardware
<http://cartel.csail.mit.edu/technology.html> , and software
<http://cartel.csail.mit.edu/software.html>  pages for more details.

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In order to upload collected data and download software updates we use
miniPCI WiFi card. Our system is capable of using any open wireless network
for this purpose. Hence the data collected is uploaded opportunistically
during the commute. The picture shows the WiFi card is plugged into the
MiniPCI slot of the embedded computer. 

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