For this part of the project we have been asked to work with Hertzian space, last year the second years did a similar project but as I was on a different course so it was my first encounter with it. Radio space, even through our senses detect only a tiny part, it is all around us at many different frequencies, we use some of these frequencies for things that we take for granted every day such as Bluetooth, FM radio, Television etc. But the majority of these aren’t.
The table below shows all the different types of radio frequencies.

The Electromagnetic spectrum


The Plan
We are going to be using Google’s Latatude, a location-aware mobile app developed by Google. Latitude allows a mobile phone user to allow certain people to track their location.
Luke Mears and myself installed the application on our smartphones and both of us had varying success with the application, my first marker was ironically somewhere in Stonehouse, when I was in room 213 in Babbage, it didn’t get much better for me throughout the day! Luke’s however worked great and we got a good set of GPS coordinates.
The coordinates we gained were gained by following a set of rules we set ourselves. The rules were to follow a group (3 or more) of male young adults, then change to a group of mixed young adults when their path intersects ours, and then swap to a group of female young adults when their path intersects ours, before going back to the beginning using the same rules.
We did this for about 45 minutes and got as far as the Barbican before turning around and returning to the University.


Above are the results of our journey on a graph made on the Internet and below are the results of Jon and Luke’s designs for the GPS results.


Below are my versions, I decided to go with musical notes along the routes we took, this was because all of the groups we followed had some element of music playing, for example the first group had headphones in, the second had a mobile phone they were listening to and the third group had a phone which went off and played a song.
The first musical note follows the path we went and the second one is on an anomaly on the GPS and the stars are GPS points that are outside of the note.





The second is more simple, each colour represents the different route we took following each group of people. Black shows when we weren't following anyone.