I haven’t been out golfing for a LONG time — it’s busy here at GPS Insight.
But the head of marketing for a great local company we work with (bluemedia — www.bluemedia.com) invited a couple of us out to golf the other day.
So I got to enjoy the day on Wednesday & we played 27 holes.
But I needed to test accuracy and battery life on our new EZ-1000 so I put two of them in my pocket during the day. Here’s what they look like:
One was set for 15 second updates, sent every minute (blue), and one was simply set for every minute (orange).
You can see slightly more information on the blue track, and they are slightly more accurate since they are keeping constant GPS, but again, as I’ve mentioned, that drops the battery life down. We get about 20 hours at 15 second updates once a minute. We get around 40 hours by transmitting every 1 minute. The customer will have the ability to modify the settings “on the fly” so that the battery vs. information/accuracy tradeoff is in their hands.
This will be useful for foot patrols, dismounted police and security officers, and similar applications.
You can get a lot more information from this, such as we got off on time for our 7:36 tee time, and that I went to the water to try to get the ball I rolled into the pond on the 13th hole:
This shows my vehicle parked at the golf course for 9:45 (I didn’t get a lot of work done that day…):
But this is more telling of what activity occurred there:
We are going to start encouraging our customers to consider this product in addition to vehicle tracking, particularly if their drivers need to spend extended periods of time outside of the vehicle. They will double as a panic alarm, since they have a button for this on the side.
For more information on the EZ-1000 give us a call, or look on the website and in the blog under articles in the category “hardware EZ-1000″ — for a picture check out this article here.