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Recording of measurements on the fly with a smartphone app

Various apps for different types of smartphones exist that allow to record data for the OpenCellID project.

The following operating systems are suppported:

• Android
• iPhone
• Windows Mobile
• Blackberry
• Nokia
• ???

Here you can find a Smartphone app for your phone.

Enable CellID recording on tracking devices / telematics devices

Providers of telematics services or fleet management services typically operate many thousand devices on behalf of their customers.
Most of these devices have the capability to record the currently used cell-id and the current GPS position.
The OpenCellID community offers free use of all available OpenCellID services to those tracking providers which in return contribute their cell-id data to the OpenCellID database under the OpenCellID license.

Donate data retrieved from other sources

There is a multitude of other sources of cell-id data like

• .CLF files (version 3) generated by software compatible with the Nobbi software NetMonitor
• databases of other apps like this one
• GSM network providers that contribute the position of teir GSM base stations to the OpenCellID project
• GSM base station enthusiasts: some members of senderliste.de have contributed their very valuable data to OpenCellID. Such data is especially valuable because it contains not only measurements but the exact GPS position of the base stations

The OpenCellID community is highly interested in any donation of reliable GSM base station data. Please contact Markus of ypu have cell-id data you would like to contribute to the OpenCellID database. Please ensure, that the license of the contributed data is compatible with the OpenCellID license.

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