Complex Systems offers lecture on GPS and tracking vehicles with mobile technology on March 25, 2011

Friday, March 25, 1:30-2:30 p.m. ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 120

Jeff Miller is the guest speaker. As GPS and mobile communication technology has reached a stable point in the consumer market, it is possible to gather data from individual vehicles in a distributed manner. Vehicle tracking services are installed in 65 vehicles in Anchorage. These devices gather vehicular data, which includes speed, location, direction, rate of acceleration/deceleration and fuel consumption (among many others parameters that can be retrieved from a vehicle's computer system) and transmit it through some roadway infrastructure (such as the cellular network) back to a central server for aggregation and analysis.

Complex Systems is co-sponsored by Undergraduate Research, College of Arts and Sciences and the University Honors College.

For more information, please call (907) 786-4748 or visit Complex Systems.