Not just across state lines, this project which covers 2,500 miles of highway between New Jersey and North Carolina will "mash up" data from 800,000 fleet vehicles with GPS, toll tag booths, sensors embedded in the highways and system which will calculate how long it is taking drivers to move from one cell tower to the next along the highways - into real-time traffic information.
Enter the Manta AUAV. Built by Advanced Ceramics Research of Tucson, Ariz., these AUAVs carry miniaturized instrument packages developed by members of Ramanathan's team, including Greg Roberts, M V Ramana and Craig Corrigan. These instruments are capable of measuring solar radiation, cloud-drop size and concentrations, particle size and concentrations, turbulence, humidity and temperature. The craft can remain airborne for several hours, travel hundreds of miles and as high as 15,000 feet. They are also substantially cheaper to operate than manned aircraft, meaning they can make more flights and observations."
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"Geotate's approach is a redesign of the system that loses the processor. Instead, the hardware simply captures a small sample of the location data that the satellites send in less than 200 milliseconds, and it stores it in memory. When a person uploads her pictures to a computer, the accompanying GPS data is used to calculate location information by employing the computer's processor and by querying a database to check satellite data. The process requires only 10 millijoules of energy, says Geotate's Marshall, which is about one-hundredth of the energy used in a traditional GPS system."
"Instead of juvenile detention, Jaime was selected by a judge to be enrolled in a pilot program at Bryan Adams in which chronically truant students are monitored electronically. Since Jaime started carrying the Global Positioning System unit April 1, he has had perfect attendance."
"..passengers submit their luggage at the check-in counter, as before, and the ground staff attaches a paper strap to it. But the strap now has an integrated radio chip with antenna, microprocessor and a memory to record all the relevant information."
"The system uniquely identifies the radio chip even when it is situated in an awkward position because, unlike a bar code, it does not require optical contact to be scanned."
"The system, which has been exhibited at the Terminal Passenger Expo in Amsterdam, scans RFID chips with a success rate of 99.9 percent — far higher than that of the bar codes previously used."
I coined the term LARTE a few years ago - Location Aware Real Time Enterprise.
While we have seen lots of good applications of telemetry in various supply chain and logistics areas, I have been delighted to find growing applications. As in healthcare - in tracking patients, employees and assets as this AeroScout case study shows and even in underground mining as this Ekahau case study shows.
I also saw this paper recently (purchase required) about how "position sensing" can help optimize clinical processes.
Giving the enterprise a jolt of double espresso :)
The slim specifications, made possible by chip advances over the last two or three years, are enabling many novel uses of G.P.S. tracking, technology analysts say. Some parents are throwing a device into their child’s backpack. An art collector in New York uses one when he transports million-dollar pieces. Every cyclist competing in the Tour de France has one attached to his bike.
"In the Raisin system, each pill contains an "ingestible event marker" (IEM). The IEM consists of a sand-grain-size microchip with a thin-film battery that is activated on ingestion, as it is exposed to water. The battery, Proteus says, is nontoxic because it is made from materials similar to those in a vitamin pill. Once swallowed, the IEM sends through the body's tissues a high-frequency electrical current that's modulated in such a way that it provides a unique marker of the pill. It's not an RFID technology: it uses the conductive tissues of the body to conduct the signal, rather than a radio, and the signal is confined within the body...
The electrical current is picked up and logged by a receiver on a patch placed on the patient's chest or abdomen, or placed underneath the skin as a subcutaneous insert. The receiver also contains sensors that monitor physiological parameters such as heart rate, respiration, and bodily movement. Heart rate is monitored by detecting the electrical activity of the heart; respiration is monitored by detecting changes in the impedance of the electrodes as the chest expands and contracts; activity is monitored with a miniature accelerometer, similar to the ones in iPhones. Combining the parameters can reveal behavioral measures such as sleep patterns...
Once collected, the data are uploaded to a server via a cell phone or a PC for a caregiver's scrutiny. The patient can then be advised to adjust dosages or change medications."
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