If rumours are anything to go by, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) is planning on coming out with prototypes of the Apple iPhone armed with the power of sensing out carbon monoxide and fire. This would prove to be a revolutionary step in the mobile application development arena as this sort of an ability would spur massive development to augment that sense into something of much larger magnitude. iPhone application development, in itself stands testimony to the humongous creativity and dexterity that is a virtue of the offshore mobile application development community.
The S&T is said to have come out with a statement that says that active funding is being diverted towards the research of cellular phones with sensors capable of detecting dangerous chemicals. Other mobile phone manufacturers are also in the fray to attain this legendary breakthrough. The project is discreetly titled “Cell-All” and is focused on deploying low-cost sensor chips in cellular phones and on coordinating mass air sampling through mobile network carriers. The government terms this as “crowd-sourcing human safety” and aims at utilizing it to reduce the number of false alarms. For example, a single report of chlorine gas from a subway might be the result of an error or an anomaly. But multiple reports could mean that a really dangerous situation is developing which would also then send warnings to phone users in the vicinity and to alert authorities. Privacy is also being considered on a prime basis as the transmission of reports would give users a prerogative to let the transmission be anonymous or otherwise. The whole detection, identification and notification cycle in the “Cell-All” system has been predicted to be completed within 60 seconds with the users being able to choose the form of notification from among vibration, noise, text message or phone call. This would be an extremely effective counter-measure against chemical terrorism and random harmful incidences such as gas leaks etc…

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