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Jawbone opens a window to our humanity-tracking future

  • 28-08-2014 8:10pm
    #1
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭


    Fitness tracker logs of an earthquake are a taste of data aggregation to come.
    Wearable computing company Jawbone released a graph on Monday showing its users being woken up by the 6.0-magnitude earthquake centered in the Napa Valley region of California on Sunday morning. 120 people were injured, a lot of wine went to waste, and a few people wearing Jawbone's Up fitness bands lost some sleep, according to a huge spike in the percentage of users who were up and moving in affected regions at about 3:20am (close to 80 percent in Berkeley, Vallejo, and Napa Valley itself).


    The graph accurately plots the nexus of the earthquake, with smaller spikes of activity in more distant regions, including San Francisco and Oakland (around 60 percent of users), Sacramento and San Jose (25 percent), and Modesto and Santa Cruz, with only a tiny bump of a few percent from the baseline. Together, the locations form a basic map of the earthquake's reach, not dependent on scientific measurements and existing equipment waiting for a disaster, but just a large, distributed population wearing tracking devices.


Comments

  • #2
    Sarutobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Sarutobi


    Very interesting. The potential for wearable technology being used on a large scale is very interesting from a scientific studies point of view! :)


  • #3
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    Sarutobi wrote: »
    Very interesting. The potential for wearable technology being used on a large scale is very interesting from a scientific studies point of view! :)

    The data is not in public hands though unfortunately. :(


  • #4
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Zamboni wrote: »
    The data is not in public hands though unfortunately. :(

    I'm sure if you asked nicely you might be able to get some sort of API access :)


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