RE: Brainstorming BOINC Projects #008
One of my ideas was the Open Sensor Array.
It is to be an Arduino-based opt-in sensor system, sensing RF, WiFi, light, dust, possibly all weather, noise, etc... and putting those results against health authorities results for depression, road rage, murder, suicide... to try and see if there is any correlation between the waves and particles flying through our bodies, and our moods.
It sounds a bit like hippie science, I know, but I feel at this point it's barely even being looked into.
The reason I haven't started this project yet was due to sensor-spoofing concerns. I have been doing some reading regarding this, and am open to any suggestions as to how to verify open-source results from across the planet.
Interesting reading on the matter: https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot16/workshop-program/presentation/park
Also a concern, is the whole Big Brother scenario. This sensor system will be admittedly invasive.
Also a concern, is the whole Big Brother scenario. This sensor system will be admittedly invasive.
The funny thing is that such a system is already in operation. Mobile operators / smartphone producers / app developers constantly spy on the users, with or without our permission.
i don't see how this is funny. i'm sorry.
and you kind of unwittingly made my main point: that we could create a dataset that rivals Google's etc, but it would be a freely available pool of information. information is valuable in today's world, and this could help change the value of said data. hide in plain sight, as it were.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not laughing. Maybe "funny" was the wrong word - more like "interesting" would be more suitable.
Anyway, I doubt megacorps like Google would allow creation of such a project. Sorry, but the truth is it would hit them pretty hard, so it's obvious they would do everything in their power to stop this.
all the more reason to try. :)