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Monday, March 29, 2004

Ride With Me: RoyalTek's BlueGPS reviewed

Posted by Doug Raeburn in "HARDWARE" @ 10:30 AM



Data Logging
The BlueGPS’s data logging capabilities are targeted towards commercial applications. Companies that have fleets of cars or trucks can use this feature for such things as tracking the use of their vehicles and monitoring safe driving.

How does it work? The data logger takes a snapshot of certain characteristics when one of several events occurs. The characteristics include the date, time, location (using longitude and latitude), heading and speed. The snapshots can be set to occur at a set time interval (every five seconds, for example) or after a certain distance is traveled (every 20 meters, for example). Another event that can trigger a log entry is when the vehicle exceeds a certain speed threshold, as when one of your fleet vehicles is driven over 75 mph.

The BlueGPS comes with software to configure the data logging and download the results. Versions are included for the Pocket PC and for the PC.


Figure 2: Configure your data log.

To configure the data logging function, you simply connect the BlueGPS to your Pocket PC using Bluetooth. Figure 2 shows the configuration tab. As stated earlier, you can set the device to log a snapshot by distance, time and/or speed limit. A connection to a Pocket PC or PC is not required for the data logging to occur… the BlueGPS does that all by itself once you configure it and enable the function.


Figure 3: It’s playback time!

When you wish to review the data in the data log, connect the BlueGPS to your Pocket PC once again, download the data that it has collected and save it to a text file. You can then play the route through a “virtual” COM port.


Figure 4: Big Brother is watching…

Set your navigation software to the same COM port and speed, and it treats the data log playback as if it’s receiving live data from a GPS. Figure 4 shows Destinator 3 replaying a route using the data in the log.

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