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Microsoft will give information about the traffic in real time

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Traffic in big cities, especially in the U.S. is becoming a serious problem for all employees traveling to work. Each seeks to deal with traffic or to avoid it, but Microsoft is definitely up to something interesting. Using trucks to transmit traffic information from the site of the event. The new technology is part of the system Dust Network of Inrix Traffic Services, which promises that can provide state of the traffic by Bayesian statistical analysis of more than 1 years ahead. Besides specialized trucks from Inrix will use the return antennas attached to over 500 000 vehicles, which will transmit the necessary information. All traffic information will be available in web portals and navigation systems for automobiles. From Inrix announced its initial partners, namely, TeleAtlas, Cingular, MSN, Garmin, Magellan and TomTom, and the new generation of SPOT watches Microsoft.