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04-22-2014, 08:32 PM
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Presence Orb uses Wi-Fi to detect if buses and bars are full (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNF84D3v6JKaElHKaf8Rb8bGZzZYPg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=8tBWU9iXNMTSmALMxgE&url=http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/22/presence-orb)
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By listening to the signal your smartphone broadcasts as it searches for Wi-Fi networks, the hope is that it will provide an anonymised and aggregated open data stream showing, effectively, where everyone is in real-time. Imagine Citymapper not only ...





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