Team led by an Indian-origin scientist are adapting accelerometers, Global Positioning System (GPS) chips, gyroscopes and other sensors to make smartphones that can read a user’s mood, eliminate passwords, protect financial transactions and more.
The team led by Nitesh Saxena at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is working on innovations where the software learns your moves, could unlock your phone automatically — or freeze when it detects that it is in the wrong hands. The technology taps into user interactions with multiple connected devices such as Google Glass or the new Apple Watch, would be even more secure.
Now phones can measure temperature, humidity — even barometric pressure and a combination of these readings could offer a secure way to log in to your computer and make passwords obsolete, as per the team.