Quoted from International Mining
“Today (June 10) at the MassMin conference in Lulea, Sweden, Greg Baiden of Laurentian University, Canada (also Chief Technology Officer of Penguin Automated Systems) presented on a newly developed Underground Positioning System (UPS). The UPS has a range of some 2 km through rock and accuracy better than 3%. Mine trials are [...]
Ever since GPS technology has become mainstream people have been wondering how they can use it to track things in real time and a few companies have invented some novel devices that allow you to do it.
For clarity we’re going to break the electronics down into two parts.
We have the BEACON which is the part [...]
I’m active in different parts of the Internet and in my travels around I’ve noticed that there’s some people out there that have a little paranoia about GPS Tracking Systems in the sense that maybe themselves or their vehicle is being tracked.
Todays technology makes all this possible and in fact really easy to do. Bur [...]
On 03.09.08, In Commentary, by cactii
The Typical Scenario at Work:
Today, my company is putting out a new policy for everyone with a company cell phone - they have enabled GPS tracking for all drivers, managers and outside salesmen. The GPS positions of all employees will now be monitored by both the dispatch department and senior management.
Now you’ll get to hear [...]
