The idea in itself is great and innovative. However, does it really have a use? Is Motorola really going to spend their R&D money into this? I am sure they could come up with ideas that would be a lot more useful than this.
According to Unwired View, in order for the idea to work with a cell phone, the device will need:
- Three-dimensional Hall-effect sensor for measuring the strength of electromagnetic fields and to form a compass to determine the geographic direction in which the main wall of the house faces.
- Digital camera to determine color saturation, order and balance of the surroundings.
- GPS receiver to determine geographic location of the phone.
- An access to the GIS database through wireless network to get the information about the surroundings of the location, e.g. the distance from the undesirable sites such as major airports, landfills, and factories.
- Cellphone microphone, to measure noise level of the location.
- AM/FM radio to measure the AM and FM transmission strength and the distance form nearest AM/FM towers.
- The table with the chi values of each parameter to be used for calculation of chi values of different parameters.
Sources : Unwired View and Mobile Mentalism