Bluetooth Technology and Travel Time Data Collection

* Computation of estimated time en route and total fuel requirement for an IFR cross-country flight.

The main piece of technology used for communication today are smartphones. On smartphones, they have many appealing features to the eye, including talking on the phone, texting others, and downloading helpful applications. They also have an app of maps on them, that do much of what a GPS device would be able to do. In a journal article, called Our Cell Phone, Ourselves, the author, Christine Rosen, states features of cell phones saying, “One new phone hitting the market boasts video capture and playback, a 1.2 megapixel camera, a 256 color screen, speakerphone, removable memory, mp3 player, Internet access, and a global positioning system” (Rosen 30). This quote summarizes that a cell phones goal is to not only be a GPS, but has other features on it for the user. The primary goal of a GPS device is just to navigate; it does not have a camera, video capture, music, or internet access. Smartphone maps and GPS devices are very similar, but also have differences. Both systems have maps, voice and written route directions, and the walking option. Many features like arrival time, miles till destination, different possibility of routes the user can take showing time differences, points of interests, and spoken directions are on both the Global Positioning System device and on the smartphone device. GPS devices work strictly by satellite signals in the sky to determine the exact place of the user. GPS apps on smartphones work by

In the subset of aeronautical engineering engineers have decreased travel time from months to only hours. In the past, if you wanted to go across the ocean you would have to ride a ship for months to get to your destination. In modern times, all you need to do if book a flight aboard a plane and

Lots of people around the world use GPS on their phones and in their cars. Before the Space Race and GPS’s, it would take people much longer to get to their

As for Columbus, during his time of travel, celestial navigation (navigation by stars) was being established and unfortunately, he was not able to use such navigation for his travels in its place he used dead reckoning. To use dead reckoning, the course one would travel was measured by a compass and the distance was measured by time, possibly keeping track by the sun or an astrolabe, but most of all it was determined by the speed of the ship. The navigator would find his ships position by measuring his own course and the distance they have sailed from a remembered point possibly landmark or object. With this technique the navigator would measure his course and his distance from it to from another point of the map and mark his new point. It

Along with the SPS we have the Coordinate Reference System that supplies travelers with accurate scaling on landmasses as well as a time reference (Cajun; Jing; Chen; Boshi; Dekui 79). These two components form the Global Positioning System. The way that time is measured with these systems is the pseudo range between satellite and the receiver multiplied by the speed of light. This helps with being able to regulate the receiver’s position (Cajun; Jing; Chen; Boshi; Dekui 79). There are a couple factors that deal with how fast travelers get to their destination. Travelers have more adjustability in non- work destinations pickings rather than destinations for work (Huang; Levinson 1). Other factors such as environment, traffic, and weather also play into your estimated time arrival of your

Columbus Navigation At the time of Columbus’ journeys and exploration, he used what is called dead reckoning and celestial navigation. In the use of dead reckoning, the navigator finds his/her position by measuring the course and distance they have sailed from some known point. Starting from this point the navigator measures out their course distance from that point on a chart, pricking the chart with a pin to mark the new position. Each day’s ending position would be the starting point for the next day’s course and distance measurement.

| * shows evidence of information on GPS’s from a brochure and a scientific source * accesses the scientific accuracy of the brochure by identifying areas of comparison in both publications noting any relevant missing information gives supporting statements for the assessment * evaluates the validity of the information in the brochure and gives supporting statements for the assessment * presents clear relevant drawings that show how waves are used in GPS’s * identifies how the properties of waves that make them useful for this type of technology * identifies some current research into the future development of GPS’s

Today, we can send information all over the world instantly; however movement and activities can be tracked through computers and cell phones. With new and improved technology, it can improve lives, increase public safety, build wealth and promote efficiencies in how we use scarce resources. Researchers,

Who in here owns a GPS or has a GPS built into their smartphone? Have you ever wondered how that works or more importantly, how did that GPS satellite travel from the ground to its 12,000 mile Medium Earth orbit? If you have ever seen a rocket launch on TV or in person you know how impressive that event is…

You can set the Labdisc to record from 1 samples per minute up to and all the way up to 25,000 samples per second. Some results say the Labdisc can record and store up to 128,000 samples. The results are graphed and can be saved on your iPad or computer in line or bar graphs or even old style meters. Tracking the GPS route is color coded on a satellite map noting speed, height or other variables. Students can manipulate these displays to add their own annotations, photos and data to be uploaded or displayed. All the statistical sample data is collected as

The company employed the IBM Internet of Things Foundation (IoT Foundation) service that transported telemetry data to the cloud. Data was streamed from the vast array of sensors and Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers directly into the cloud. They then extracted important insights from the flood of data by using analytic tools within the Bluemix PaaS. A rich visualization front end was developed which delivered technical information and alerts to the racing team as well as a real-time representation of the race to

Today the accuracy of GPS navigation is not questioned, however, there are still some Applications that use GPS to plot routes between two points and can be very inaccurate because it is hard to determine the difference between locations [5]. For example if you are on a trail that is not registered a GPS could give you an incorrect route. Also a GPS receiver will give inaccurate readings in a forest or a city with tall buildings because satellites have to send clear signals to GPS

The research paper gives an account of the usage of mobile phones on aircrafts. Researchers have indicated that rules and regulations have been formulated to affirm that no one has the legal right of operating a cell phone in a plane. In the recent past, flight accidents have been on the increase with a number being pegged on hijackers, who use their mobile phones to communicate. Several specialized committees comprising independent parties that have been formed to look into plane accidents normally blame the usage of phones during flights. Telecommunications gurus have also indicated that cellphone data could always help in locating missing jet lines and airplanes. Majority of airlines require that passengers to turn off their phones

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