Positioning technology sans satellites
Positioning technology sans satellites
Dont know if this has already been posted somewhere in the forums but have a read of this interesting article.
http://theage.com.au/news/Breaking/Posi ... 74342.html
cheers
Jarrod
http://theage.com.au/news/Breaking/Posi ... 74342.html
cheers
Jarrod
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They forgot to add:<p>
"Unlike the current Global Positioning System which is free to access, the LocataLite tower with antenna system will cost users a moderate fee, because with an Ausgrant we have to demonstrate to the government our 5 year business plan.<p>
Stay Tuned for an antenna coming to your basement soon!
"Unlike the current Global Positioning System which is free to access, the LocataLite tower with antenna system will cost users a moderate fee, because with an Ausgrant we have to demonstrate to the government our 5 year business plan.<p>
Stay Tuned for an antenna coming to your basement soon!
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I'm glad to see they've finally gone public with this, as I've been constrained by commercial confidence on this for years!
Their initial thinking was for things like the situation at the World Trade Centre after the first tower collapsed. Nobody knew where the firefighters etc were in the smoke and dust. A few beacons off the back of a truck and the coordinator could have a 3D map of his people's position to within a couple of centimetres. (In this case, their beacons get their positions with standard DGPS)
I hope it takes off, and makes at least a bit of money locally before it gets bought and goes offshore...
Their initial thinking was for things like the situation at the World Trade Centre after the first tower collapsed. Nobody knew where the firefighters etc were in the smoke and dust. A few beacons off the back of a truck and the coordinator could have a 3D map of his people's position to within a couple of centimetres. (In this case, their beacons get their positions with standard DGPS)
I hope it takes off, and makes at least a bit of money locally before it gets bought and goes offshore...
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I'd expect if you could get it prototyped, you'd get Kerry Packer to fund the final development.Mind Socket wrote:I wanted to build a system like this for recording sports matches, each player has a tracker and you record their positions. The technology exists, but my know-how is lacking.
- R .. I better go read the article now.
It might make his cricket matches a little more interesting
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Heheh, yeh. I've seen a similar technology employed for ice hockey overseas. It even goes so far as to analyse collisions ... "at 8m/s-2, that gotta hurt!"
The alternative involves a lot of people with angle measurement devices following players around and triangulating manually.
That, or using video footage and calibrating it.
- R
The alternative involves a lot of people with angle measurement devices following players around and triangulating manually.
That, or using video footage and calibrating it.
- R