Nokia Researcher Center and Nokia designers have announced that they are working on a new concept mobile phone, the Nokia Eco Sensor Concept. This handset will also work as a compatible sensing device to be in contact with health and local environment along with friends, family and loved ones.
This conceptual phone allows the user to share the collected environmental data with others and vice-versa. The two-in-one gadgets can work as a dedicated phone along with a wearable sensor unit that has the ability to sense and analyze the environment, health and local weather conditions.
The user can wear the sensor unit on a wrist or roll it over the neck as the strap, made of solar cells to deliver power of the sensors. A built-in near field communication (NFC) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies would be relying information from the sensors to the handset or to any other devices that are compatible with the RFID technology.
Developed to be portable and easy to carry, the device is compact and has been made from renewable or reclaimed materials, eliminating the wastage of materials. It also saves energy.
The Nokia Eco Sensor Concept bundles with a separate wearable sensing device with detectors to gather information on environment, health and weather data. The consumer can also customize the device in terms of selecting sensors to place it inside the device. According to the company, if the buyers want to use the device as a ‘personal trainee’ or choose a heart-rate monitor detector that measure the walking speeds for them.
Nokia has designed this green device keeping in mind the three important R’s – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. These indicate three principles that include waste reduction, reuse the material use and recycle the waste material.
Now, for a full-fledge eco-phone, Nokia counts on lower energy consumption that is based on alternative energy sources, including solar power that will fuel the sensor unit’s power usage. This does away with external, non-renewable energy sources.
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