| Telemetry is the study and measurement of the | | | | supply chain and keep track of important information. |
| transmission of data over certain mediums, such as | | | | Combined with local technology, the company assets |
| telephones or computer networks. Communication | | | | can be located at any point in time. Thus, telemetry |
| channels are a major part of any telemetry system. | | | | monitor will allow companies to wirelessly access |
| When telemetry was still at its nascent stage, data | | | | information and monitor status levels at all times. For |
| was transmitted over wires. One of the limitations of | | | | instance, electricity meters can be read through |
| this monitoring system was the restriction of the | | | | wireless technology, eliminating the need for a person |
| subject to the confines in the laboratory. Recent | | | | to read each meter manually. This provides a great |
| advances in technology have overcome these | | | | savings in salaries once paid to employees that |
| restrictions. GSM (Global System for Mobile | | | | walked around from house to house collecting |
| communication), wireless computer networks and | | | | readings. |
| miniature devices allow continuous data transmission | | | | Layers of labor costs can be eliminated with some |
| from moving vehicles such as cars, aircrafts, missiles | | | | applications providing additional cost savings. Even |
| and satellites, to a central source. Despite the wealth | | | | machines can be monitored at a distance and alerted |
| of applications the primary purpose of any telemetry | | | | when there are problems detected. For example, a |
| system is to collect data at a place that is remote, | | | | toner in a printer can be remotely monitored and the |
| inconvenient or dangerous, and relay the data to a | | | | suppliers notified to place an order without the |
| point where telemetry monitor or data evaluation takes | | | | intervention of a human. Biomedical telemetry or |
| place. | | | | biotelemetry provides a means for transmitting |
| Major applications of telemetry monitor include | | | | physiological or biological information from one site to |
| monitoring electric-power plants, remote meter reading, | | | | another for data collection. This telemetry monitor |
| gathering meteorological data, logistics management, | | | | technology is used for monitoring of the |
| tracking endangered land and marine species, and | | | | electro-physiological state of the patients who are at |
| monitoring manned and unmanned space flights. | | | | risk of abnormal heart activity. This technology has |
| Telemetry monitor technology is expected to replace | | | | even reached the small towns in the USA. Both my |
| bar coding when the price point reaches an affordable | | | | water and electrical meters are monitored in order for |
| level. Product information can be stored on specialized | | | | billing, and I live in a small town in Iowa. |
| telemetry tags that will track the product along the | | | | |