A transport-monitoring module for monitoring a transport of a transport unit of a passenger-transportation device is arranged on the transport unit. The transport-monitoring module has a sensor and localization devices. During the transport, through an interface unit, a connection with a data memory of the device is created. The interface unit is configured so that transport-monitoring data that are to be stored, which are based on sensor data of the sensor and localization data of the localization devices, are permanently stored in the data memory. In this way, the transport-monitoring module is simplified, so that it is no longer an item that is worth stealing. In addition, a reliable access to the stored transport-monitoring data after the end of the transport is secured.

A shot detection system for a projectile weapon comprising: an accelerometer, a power source, a memory; and a processor configured to: receive accelerometer data from the accelerometer; for a first region of interest, test a first property of the accelerometer data; and store a shot determination result in the memory.

An example computing device includes a motion sensor to detect movement of a computing device. The computing device also includes an example processor to 1) determine a rate of movement change of the computing device and 2) activate an impact sensor of the computing device responsive to the determined rate of movement change being greater than a threshold rate. The example computing device includes an impact sensor to detect an impact of the computing device and record data associated with the impact.

A tracker device includes a positioning system, a communication system, and a movement sensing system. The tracker device is configured to utilize the movement sensing system to reduce power consumption during waterborne transport. The tracker device intermittently operates its positioning system to determine a geographic position of the tracker device, and intermittently operates the communication system to transmit the geographic position to a remote computer. The tracker device further detects, based on at least one signal from the movement sensing system, that the tracker device is in transit on a waterborne vessel, and disables the communication system when the tracker device is detected to be in transit on the waterborne vessel.

A tracker device includes a positioning system, a communication system, and a movement sensing system. The tracker device is configured to utilize the movement sensing system to reduce power consumption during waterborne transport. The tracker device intermittently operates its positioning system to determine a geographic position of the tracker device, and intermittently operates the communication system to transmit the geographic position to a remote computer. The tracker device further detects, based on at least one signal from the movement sensing system, that the tracker device is in transit on a waterborne vessel, and disables the communication system when the tracker device is detected to be in transit on the waterborne vessel.

A method for increasing fail-safe operation of an industrial input/output assembly, wherein an external mechanical load that acts on the input/output assembly is determined via an acceleration sensor, where a check is performed to determine whether the load exceeds a predeterminable limit value and, if this is the case, a value of a load sum is then accordingly increased corresponding to an extent to which the value is exceeded, where the load sum is continuously compared to a maximum load value that characterizes a service life of the input/output assembly, and a maintenance message is output when the maximum load value is reached.

Driving behavior for a particular driver may be gathered and analyzed over a time period, such as a year or a duration of the driver's employment at a particular employer. The driving behavior is received by a server from a positioning device as multiple streams of position data at different time stretches throughout the time period, each stream of position data associated with a route of a plurality of routes driven by at least one vehicle. The server generates speed data from the streams of position data and compares the speed data to retrieved speed limit data for those routes. The server generates a report with at least a speeding percentage value corresponding to how often the driver was speeding while driving during the time period. The report is then sent to the driver's computing device.

Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture visual data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., video captured while the mobile device is rotated for some or all of a full 360 degree rotation at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations, analyzing each viewing location's visual data to create a panorama image from that viewing location, analyzing the linking data to determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.

A bumper for a vehicle, comprising at least one part made of resilient material, having a curved front portion forming an inner cavity. The front portion has apertures enabling the cavity to be put into communication with the exterior of the resilient part. At least one marking fluid cell is provided inside the cavity. A fastener is provided to fasten the one part to the vehicle.

A bumper for a vehicle, comprising at least one part made of resilient material, having a curved front portion forming an inner cavity. The front portion has apertures enabling the cavity to be put into communication with the exterior of the resilient part. At least one marking fluid cell is provided inside the cavity. A fastener is provided to fasten the one part to the vehicle.