The devices monitored the birds' location and contained posture sensors to detect how often the birds put their heads down to feed.
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Robert Scoble and I have been collaborating since July on Age of Context, a book about the convergence of five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, location-based and sensors.
When a person wearing the shirt applies pressure to the shirt's millimeter-thick cloth, the shirt captures the strength and location of the pressure with sensors sewn into its fabric and transmits the hug via Bluetooth to a cell phone.
Scheduled for completion in October, Age of Context examines five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, sensors and location-based technologies, which are converging into a superstorm of change.
It reports on the convergence of five forces: mobile, social media, Big Data, sensors and location to create an entirely new technology era, one in which context will shape business, marketing, advertising, our health, entertainment and our relationships with connected devices.
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Creatively calling the plug-in boards "capes" in reference to the cape worn by a beloved cartoon beagle super hero, the active open source BeagleBoard.org community designed the plug-in boards to foster an even wider range of innovations such as robot motor drivers and sensors that measure location and pressure.
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It relies on LTE cellular and sensors placed around the area rather than GPS to navigate, in part because the terrain and location of objects constantly changes in parking lots.
Features such as location-based services, near field communications, augmented reality and an array of motion sensors deliver a platform ideal for business process innovation.
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It combines a conventional global positioning system (GPS) signal with those of other sensors - accelerometers and gyroscopes - to pinpoint a car's location to within 2m (6ft 6in).
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In 2004 it engaged in a partnership with Minnesota Department of Transportation, U.S., to equip 100 state vehicles with sensors to collect traffic-related data including vehicle speed, location, heading and even localised weather conditions, with the aim of developing the next generation of transportation and driver information systems.
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Included in this latest software release is the new Radar app which utilizes the built-in precision GPS sensors onboard the HUD to provide information on current location, 3D interactive resort maps, and buddy tracking.
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"Our biggest challenges were developing an algorithm which optimally combines the data from GPS and the other sensors, and overcoming the issues of using such low-cost sensors in a system without any absolute location reference, " said Smithson.
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HITS, in which six sensors are placed inside the helmet of every player on the field, measuring the force and location of every blow he receives to the head.
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