Checking Traffic On Your Mobile

Textually has picked up a piece on a company offering a service which allows people to check traffic by looking at traffic cameras on their mobile phones.
Traffic Vizzion (pronounced “vision”) makes it possible to keep an eye on the road ahead by bringing live images from thousands of traffic cameras located across North America to your cell phone. And, uniquely, if you have a built-in or external GPS, Traffic Vizzion patent pending technology can automatically show cameras near to your current location, or along the road directly ahead of you, long before you get there!”
The service costs $5 per month, which is probably close to all profit for Vizzion…I’m not sure how it works in the US but a few years ago in Sydney John Fardoulis from Mobility showed me this very thing on his own mobile that he had set up — apparently it just took a basic Java app to access the images which are available free online. The built-in GPS feature that Vizzion has in pretty nifty though…
Also, check out this NYT article on using mobile signals to monitor traffic density…it’s not mobile content but it’s interesting.

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