Accelerometer brainstorming

Alexey Feldgendler alexey at feldgendler.ru
Fri Mar 28 14:50:10 CET 2008


On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:31:20 +0100, Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> To join this post and your previous post, how about using the
> accelerometers to enhance the GPS?
>
> Not just for power saving, but say you drive through a tunnel; the GOS
> loses connectivity but the device still knows your location based on
> accelerometer data. There are commercially available in car navigation
> systems that already employ this technology.

I haven't mentioned accelerometer-assisted dead reckoning because I  
remember it having already been discussed. The same goes for recognition  
of various gestures like shaking and tilting.


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