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September 24, 2006

Posted by Ken Schmidt & Mark van der Hoek at 08:06 PM

Tech preview: real time traffic info via cellular network (Mobiletracker.net)

IntelliOne hopes to provide real-time traffic monitoring to anyone who wants the data. Their software, which is still being tested, will provide the positions of callers talking on their cell phones. The use of cell towers to track callers is different that methods currently employed.

Traffic monitoring companies use mile-by-mile towers to register user data of drivers and their active cell phones. This has prevented the technology from growing outside of metropolitan areas, where it is more expensive to build the infrastructure needed. Traffic monitoring will only be available in select markets at the end of next year and only for CDMA phones. Over time the company hopes to add GSM phones to its service as well as other markets.

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