Smartphone sensors offer crowdsourced weather map

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2917, 2013, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Weather reports usually tell what the weather should be doing in specific places not what it's actually doing right now. That could soon change if an online service that uses people's phones as tiny weather stations works out. Launched last week, WeatherSignal will crowdsource meteorological data from Android smartphones and map it online. Samuel Johnston, spokesman for Opensignal, the company behind WeatherSignal, based in London, UK, says the project is launching now because new phones are packed with environmental sensors.