All cars are filled hundreds of sensors, measuring everything from tire pressure to brake pad condition. Right now, though, you’re only aware of those sensors if something goes wrong and the car wants to notify you. That’s starting to change. Since 2010, the USC School of Cinematic Arts and BMW have been working on Nigel, a Mini Cooper outfitted with 230 sensors that creates a log of everything that happens in the vehicle, letting users see it all via an iPhone and iPad app. Now USC’s Center For Body Computing is getting in on the Nigel project, looking at how the car could be used to monitor driver health as well as vehicle health.
Nigel’s beginnings can be traced back to the Million Story Building, a project consisting of an iPhone app that let inhabitants of the School of Cinematic Arts building engage with the structure by tapping into its huge sensor network and displaying the information from within on the app. The idea: to figure out how the building could tell a story using data from sensors.
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