Real-time location system and radio-frequency identification technologies let staff easily locate kits with expired medication or in need of replenishing.
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Guards sometimes abandon their posts, and at one location an alarm system works only half the time.
Many of the winning applications had some kind of social networking feature, including Life360, a location-based system that, among other things, allows users to form social networks with others in their neighborhood.
Among its most recent products include a watch than can receive global positioning system location information, one that doubles as a TV remote control, and one that plays MP3 digital music files.
In America there is already a military system to spot GPS interference: the GPS Jammer Detection and Location (JLOC) system run by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
The advantage of instant access to information regardless of device, operating system or location is a huge factor in the dominance of web apps over desktop apps.
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Before migrating each location to the new system, the IT department would hold an open house at the site to give users a preview of the new system and let them try it out, he said.
According to an ULTra spokeswoman, the company will be announcing the location for the next PRT system in early October.
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More signal input subsequently equals a more secure position read-out, with the elderly base system offering initial location accuracy to around 100 meters.
The additional set of over 26, 000 reports released today shows estimated defense spending cut impacts at the "Place of Performance" - a closer measure for potential job losses - for cities, counties and states, with three separate reports for each location: spending by weapon system, by government contracting office, and by products and services.
Already ahead in ITS, Portland's 850 "smart buses" are equipped with Global Positioning System and Automated Vehicle Location technology.
Using court orders, the FBI controls the system from a remote location to monitor and retrieve e-mail messages of criminal suspects.
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The demo wowed the crowd: The idea is to link tags created by Sekai Camera users and others to items in the real world, using the global positioning system (GPS) location abilities of the iPhone.
"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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Until now business analysts have often oversimplified this dimension of their data because of a lack of the BI system capabilities or access to location indexed data.
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It protects its highly portable assets with a GPS system, which tracks the location of each car and transmits it back to head office using the mobile-phone network.
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While both CAIROS and GoalRef use magnetic fields around the goal and need to insert a chip in the ball, Hawk-Eye and GoalControl use a 3D imaging system to determine the precise location of the ball.
Games will likely be designed around the phone's global positioning system and Google Maps "My Location" feature, says Webster.
On a mobile device buzz.com could further narrow the field based on a person's location, using opt-in global positioning system data.
In 2003, Skyhook pioneered the development of the Wi-Fi Positioning System to provide precise and reliable location results in urban areas.
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At that point, the system reverts to essentially guessing the location.
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The government's Emergency Alert System has had just such a plan in the works for a while now, and Sprint Nextel is becoming the first national carrier to trial a system capable of sending targeted, location based alerts when bad stuff goes down.
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Well, PocketNow got their hand on the top-end iCN 750 in-car navigation system to see just how useful downloading location-mapped pictures can be.
The article's second killer app is an iPhone location feature that simplifies the current Find My iPhone system that can track down a missing device anywhere in the world.
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The new technology platform can be embedded in an existing design or operate as a stand-alone unit, with options to compute the location locally or transmit the information to a remote system which can process the data before visualising it on a smartphone app.
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The iPhone also gets a grab bag of new features, including the ability to show a user's location on Google maps (without a global positioning system chip, slick), customizable home screens, and the ability to send SMS messages to multiple people at once, among other features.
First, the weak link in any wireless or radio system is the antenna, its effectiveness and its location.
But it is unknown how many sensors there are in the JLOC system, or how accurately it can determine the location of a jammer.
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