Smartphone cameras will detect health abnormalities

Other applications include health monitoring and food analysis. All of this forms part of an environment combining smart sensors with the Internet. "Consumer benefits could appear in health applications, such as mobile phones that are able to check whether moles are, malignant or food is edible," said Anna Rissanen from VTT.

"They could also verify product authenticity or identify users based on biometric data. On the other hand, driverless cars could sense and identify environmental features based on the representation of the full optical spectrum at each point of an image," said Rissanen.

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