Everyone nowadays realises how GPS tracking devices have affected their lives whether its used for personal use, such as GPS satellite navigation or tracking family members. Also how it’s used in business either tracking packages or protecting various different types of assets. How ever very few people realise GPS tracking is used for tracking things they could never image.
Tracking various wildlife speices has become wide spread in recent years, whether its to monitor migration routes or breeding habits. GPS tracking devices have helped scientists obtain information that would have been impossible a few years ago, such as tracking Himalayan blck bears in India that number only 300, they were able to track them which enables them to set up protective area’s for them.
Another innovation that GPS tracking devices have been used for is tracking Alzheimer’s patients. Patients wear a wrist watch with has a little GPS device inside, this allows a person to monitor via computer software the exact location of a wearer in real time. This ensures that a patient who wanders off can be located within minutes rather than hours which used to be the case. It also allows a person who is in the early stages of dementia much more freedom than before.
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