Fleet Locate GPS Fleet Tracking Blog

With the preseason upon us, it’s our fondest wish for GPS fleet tracking technology to come to the aid of football referees everywhere. From the NFL to college to high school to military, have we found a deal for you!

A bunch of forward- (forward pass-?) thinking researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon University are involved in a project that can pinpoint the exact path a thrown football takes, along with its final location. The current system uses sensors embedded in player gloves and electronics similar to those in GPS vehicle tracking devices inside the football. Getting the idea?

The ball can now be viewed in real time on a computer, apparently using the sensors in the gloves to bounce exact location coordinates back from global positioning satellites in orbit above Earth. The team has been working to make the gloves’ tracking ability more accurate and the receiver in the football lighter to fall another 3.5 ounces to meet NFL specs.

Be sure to watch the YouTube video to learn more about this groundbreaking project. It could be the greatest thing to hit the sport since instant replay (sorry, refs).