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Personal Products
| Applications | |
|---|---|
| Title | Personal Products |
| Author(s) | Rui Barradas Pereira. |
| Level | Basic |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
Overview of Personal Products
Handheld Outdoor Receivers
The Handheld Outdoor Receivers are devices conceived for pedestrian navigation, usually in non urban outdoor environments. The handheld GNSS units are self-contained devices which can vary somewhat in size. The smallest ones are about the size of small cell phones. The largest ones are the size of a typical television remote control [1].
These portable devices are used mostly for hiking and hiking-related activities such as hunting and geocaching. The rural environments where the equipment is typically used, are areas where the surrounding vegetation and orography often block GNSS satellite signals. In environments where there is a clear line of sight to the satellites, GNSS technology is able to provide location with good accuracy and continuity of service.
Detailed information about Handheld Outdoor Receivers can be found here.
Sport Watches & Computers
Detailed information about Sport Watches and Computers can be found here.
Phones
The GNSS enabled sports watches are devices initially targeted for athletes. Nowadays, it has become very important for runners or cyclists to precisely monitor their activities in terms of training features, such as track speed or distance, but also for health monitoring indications, like heart rate. These health monitoring competences targeted the market of this product not only for athletes, but also to a broad spectrum of users, such as persons who need a physical training program to recover from surgery or disease [2].
Detailed information about Phones can be found here.
Personal Trackers
Detailed information about Personal Trackers can be found here.
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