Real-Time Awareness Maps of Cell Phone Usage

People of SENSEable City Lab have developed a continuously changing real-time maps of cell phone usage in Graz, Austria. They “track” anonymous data from thousands of mobile phones. The get the data by ‘pinging’ the cell phones, so they probably have an agreement with austrian GSM providers. The project is a means of observing, and reading the city, a tool that traces its evolution and real-time fluctuation.

Graz in Real Time

Spatial view of Graz