05 David Resseguie at Tap the Collective

David Resseguie of Sensorpedia at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, discussed the lab's "Wikipedia for sensors", a mashup of map and sensor data to be used by local law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security. He spoke of the "citizen as a sensor" citing the first shot to come out of the Hudson river airplane landing, taken by a bystander on a passing boat on his iPhone, and how much rich data could come out of that simple, grainy photo, such as the number of people escaping -- especially the contrast between the first and second classes. Sensorpedia seeks to take advantage of the fact that everyone of us is now a sensor -- we all have cell phones in our pockets -- while figuring out how to aggregate this data in a way that is meaningful and actionable.

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