Apple Patents Network That Uses Sensors to Track Everything
Network of sensors would track movement of an individual and their belongings.

Apple has applied for a patent that would see a network utilizing sensors to track everything, including people.
The company filed for a patent related to a "personal items network" that functions through movement-monitoring devices. The system would link items such as a wallet, purse, personal data assistant, personal computer, watch, credit card, keys and cell phones through sensors that track and record changes in both environment and condition.
"The invention relates to sensing systems monitoring applications in sports, shipping, training, medicine, fitness, wellness, and industrial production," the patent application reads. "The invention specifically relates to sensing and reporting events associated with movement, environmental factors such as temperature, health functions, fitness effects, and changing conditions."
The movement monitoring devices (MMDs) are able to attach to any item, as well as to people. The sensors record "temperature, humidity, chemicals, heart rate, pulse, pressure, stress, weight, environmental factors, and hazardous conditions."
Unlike technology that powers wearable fitness trackers such as Nike's FuelBand, Apple's MMD sensors have the ability to attach to packages so an individual can track how, for example, a delivery courier is handling your belongings. Should an unauthorized individual attempt to remove the sensor, it would alert you.
"A MMD of the invention can attach to furniture to monitor shipping of furniture. If the furniture were dropped, an impact event occurs and is recorded within the MMD, or transmitted wirelessly, with an associated time tag," the patent application added.
Title: Apple patents
Article: Apple has applied for a patent
So witch one is it? Did apple applied or was granted? Might wanna get your story straight.
Then again, that hasn't stopped the patent office yet.
Title: Apple patents
Article: Apple has applied for a patent
So witch one is it? Did apple applied or was granted? Might wanna get your story straight.
Then again, that hasn't stopped the patent office yet.
Distribution: company-wide
All employees are hereby required to wear company provided gloves vest and necktie.
The gloves and vest will monitor and profile your posture and activity levels to ensure that employee performance levels fit within company standard minimums. Your necktie will monitor your swallow reflex to ensure that you are not consuming more than the allotted maximum quantity of coffee - 1 standard cup per day. We look forward to tracking you. Kiss your freedoms goodbye.
Sincerely,
Your corporate overlords.
ps, this memo also applies to all elementary and high school students attending schools run by this corporation.
I worked in shipping once, and let me inform you they do not treat them like new born babies when they pack them into the trailer. That "impact sensor" will be going off every time it is loaded.
Most packages can take at least a little bit of abuse.
Excessive rough-handling on the other hand can get expensive when companies instruct customers to refuse the package if the seal or box is damaged.
As far as Apple's new patent goes, sounds like another case of Apple patenting the obvious. Make sensors cheap and small enough, you can start embedding/sticking them into/onto everything. Sports injury researchers have been working on helmets and mouth pieces with embedded accelerometers to keep track of potential brain/head/neck injuries in contact sports for a few years already.
Two words: You're dumb.
I totally agree.
I worked in shipping once, and let me inform you they do not treat them like new born babies when they pack them into the trailer. That "impact sensor" will be going off every time it is loaded.
See I regret to in for you your package was dropped 2000 time we refund your item of course !what was in the package?soccer ball!grin