An 85-foot-tall blue spruce from Arizona has become the Capitol Christmas Tree. TracktheTree.com, a web portal designed by SkyBitz, provided real-time tracking of the Capitol Christmas Tree Caravan, during its 21-day, 4,167-mile circuitous journey from Arizona to Washington DC.
The technology behind the tracking application is SkyBitz’s GLS210, a small box that contains electronics, antennas and AA batteries. The unit does not use a commercial GPS service directly. Instead, it utilizes SkyBitz’s proprietary ASIC that communicates with commercial satellites. The chip captures data from the satellite, then relays that information back to the central server at SkyBitz’s data center in Virginia, via the satellite.
Each GLS210 unit also transmits its own unique ID number, so the server knows not only which unit is communicating, but also that unit’s location. The GLS210 usually remains in quasi-sleep mode, awakening only when it needs to communicate. Non-powered assets such as trailers, containers, and railcars can be tracked for years on internal batteries.
The unit can be programmed to communicate depending on a customer’s particular needs.
The Capitol Christmas Tree, with nearly 10,000 handmade ornaments, was officially turned on earlier this month. Some 80 companion trees were placed in offices throughout the Capitol complex.
In other news, Globalstar, the satellite phone provider and its wholly owned subsidiary, Spot, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Axonn, a leading developer of their satellite GPS asset-tracking and messaging products. It will secure the intellectual property rights and technical design for the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger as well as a number of Simplex data machine-to-machine (M2M) enterprise solutions, according to Peter Dalton, Chief Executive Officer of Globalstar.
Today, virtually any tottler can track anyone using smartphones and Google Earth.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command gets a lot of press about their Santa tracking abilities, but NORAD’s inability to track a sleigh south of the equator is glossed over in media packages (with dubious music rights).
NORAD says their ability to track Santa is a true technical achievement. Detractors say NORAD, though its contractors SAIC, Booze Allen and Blackwater, have put Santa at risk with decades-long delays and cost overruns in Space Based Infrared satellites, limited coverage of Sea Based X-band Radar and general lack of imagination.
Santa’s real helpers create iPhone or Android apps, twitter feeds, or 2nd Life Avatars to bring real joy to people all over the world!
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