The University of Georgia is using GPS tracking devices for monitoring the performance of its players during practice.

The objective is for the coaches to monitor the players on how they respond to different workloads throughout the entire preseason, as well as individual sessions. Players selected are monitored through black batches that are sewn over the numbers on their jerseys.

This is the first year the Georgia Bulldogs have participated in this type of study. Through GPS tracking, the coaches can get an idea of the volume of running, as well as the distance and speed the players are traveling.

According to Mark Richt, Georgia head coach, they are learning a lot about the volume of work the players are handling. Richt said that although they are not certain what the results will show ultimately, he does feel it might prove as an advantage in areas like injury prevention. Read the rest of this entry »

Car crashes are one of the leading causes of death in teenagers in the United States. In fact, more than 2,600 teenagers in the US between the ages of 16 and 19 were killed, while over 290,000 received treatment for injuries in the emergency room due to car crashes in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means that each day there are seven 16 to 19 year old teen deaths from car crash injuries.

Although just 14 percent of the US population is made up of teenagers between the ages 15 and 24, they still make up around 30 percent ($19 billion) of costs associated with vehicle crash injuries in males and around 28 percent ($7 billion) in females. The good news is teen car crashes can be prevented and there are proven strategies that will improve young drivers’ safety on the roads.

A GPS tracker is one way to ensure the safety of your teen driver. GPS teen tracking devices can show when your adolescent has gone beyond a set boundary. It can help you find your young driver if they get lost or if they are in an accident. It can even help guide them until they have gained more experience driving. Read the rest of this entry »

Unless you are able to take public transit, or bike or walk to school, work or wherever else you wish to go, it’s necessary to commute by car. For a lot of us, this means we are on the road almost 200 hours, and the average American driver is stuck in traffic 38 hours a year.

If you live in Seattle, that number goes up to 63, and if you live and work and Los Angeles, well, surprise, surprise, you spend an average of 90 hours a year stuck in traffic.

If you were to add up the costs of fuel and wasted time because of US road traffic congestion, you would come up with a $124 billion annually collective total or around $1700 for each household, according to WalletHub. Read the rest of this entry »

Last year, a construction worker named Pete Jackson was hit by thieves over six times. Because of this, not only does he have a sign up that clearly warns potential thieves to ‘watch out’, but he also has surveillance cameras up on top of his roof of his building.

However, what the thieves are not able to openly see is what will ultimately land them in jail the next time they try to break into any of Pete’s Stonewall construction sites to steal any of his belongings: it’s GPS equipment tracking.

He claims construction site thieves are hitting him ‘left and right’ claiming that recently he had eight windows stolen from one house, which costed him around $1200 to replace them.

Jackson decided to put a little more pressure on the next person who trespasses on his property. as he is fed up with criminals getting away with stealing what doesn’t belong to them.

On one of his expensive air compressor units, he installed GPS equipment tracking which, unknown to thieves, will double as a GPS tracking device. Read the rest of this entry »

Because of poaching, over 30,000 African elephants die every year with a lot of their ivory tusks being found hundreds of miles away from them. East Africa can be thought of as ground zero for poaching. In fact, the Tanzanian government announced in June that there was over 60 percent of elephants lost in their country in the past five years going from around 110,000 to less than 44,000. There was a 48 percent loss of elephants reported for neighboring Mozambique.

In order to track the poached tusks route,

Bryan Christy, investigative journalist, commissioned a taxidermist to make a couple of fake ivory tusks where he would then embed a GPS tracking device in each.

The tusks are intended to hunt down the people who are killing the elephants to learn the routes they follow, what ports they leave from, the ships they travel on and the countries and cities it transits and ends up.

The tusks are being sent to a part of the world that is far too dangerous for the investigators to go. Additionally, the tusks were placed on a path that they knew was the path where ivory was transported from Garamba National Park making its way North into Sudan.

Christy and his team tracked it from country to country north. They felt it was a creative and exciting idea being able to watch it move north and avoid all roads as it headed north to Sudan. Read the rest of this entry »