...Personal Navigation Devices (PND) has been around for nearly 30 years, but have not gone mainstream until mid 2009. The first PND was developed for and used by the US Military. However, as technology advances the use of paper maps are no more. Paper maps are really used and are actually hard to find, since the inception of PNDs to the general public. Personal Navigation Devices began its rise in popularity in the middle of 2009. PNDs can be found as a standalone device or integrated in both smartphones and automobile dashboards. PNDs are designed to provide geo-location, turn-by-turn navigation, and real-time traffic conditions. The personal navigation device allows its users to customize their experience, by giving the option save a profile. A profile may consist of favorite locations, recent addresses, and customizable operational settings. PNDs synchronize with GPS navigation satellites to provide an exact location of a place. With that location, the internal navigation system will then display the location on its map. There have been several companies that have entered the arena of developing PNDs. However, there have been two companies that are ahead of the pack. The industry leaders are Garmin and Tom Tom. Other recognized manufacturers and providers are Magellan, Motorola as well as the major cellular phone carriers. PND manufacturers and providers have expounded upon their devices. Not only are these devices can be found on cellular phones, or in automobiles. PNDs can...
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...Brian Anderson Case Analysis 3 - Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) TM583 10/2/2010 1. Why have Personal Navigation Devices become popular? What technologies are required to facilitate the success of PNDs? PND’s have become very popular in both handheld and vehicle models. These personal devices allow the users to not only determine where they need to go but also where they are and most have a memory which allows the user to save locations to their favorites. If they are connected to the internet they can be updated regularly with new locations to search for within their memory like restaurant’s, gas stations, and various other stores and community locations. PND’s work using GPS navigation satellites to gain their respective GSP coordinates. With these coordinates the internal system can place them on the map that have been installed within the PND and shows the user where they are in relation to other locations and can even give the best path from point A to point B. 2. Who are some of the leaders in PNDs? What are the likely factors that will contribute to winning in this marketplace? Among the top PND’s are Garmin, Tom Tom, Magellan, and Motorola. The PND that I have had personal experience with would be the Garmin. Garmin produces rugged hand held models that are perfect for camping, hunting and hiking. They normally come equipped with forest roads and other off the beaten track maps that the vehicle models do not contain. To win in this market the PND...
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...Transport Canada’s Construction Standards for Small Vessels specify how small vessels that are equipped with a motor, are up to 24 m in length and operate in Canada, must be built. A Compliance Notice is a statement from the manufacturer or importer that a vessel is built according to the construction requirements of the Small Vessel Regulations. If you plan to sell, import, build or rebuild such a vessel, you are required to make sure it meets these construction standards. Pleasure craft that meet these construction standards should be equipped with a Compliance Notice. Compliance Notices for pleasure craft up to 6 m in length also have information on recommended maximum safe limits in good weather. Compliance Notices can be a small metal plate or label affixed to the hull of your craft. Examples of Compliance Notices are depicted on this page. Do I need one? Canadian boating laws require that a Compliance Notice must be affixed to all pleasure craft propelled (or designed to be propelled) by a motor and that are built in or imported into Canada in order to be sold or operated in Canada, except pleasure craft 24 m and above. Owners of pleasure craft may obtain individual Compliance Notices from the original manufacturer. You also need a Compliance Notice in order to license or register your boat. For more information visit www.tc.gc.ca. BACK TO TOP What information is on a compliance label? Compliance Notices for pleasure boats less than 6 m in length provide three...
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...DSSL1014 Life Skills Curriculum Development and Management Division COURSE TITLE LIFE SKILLS (Kemahiran Hidup) COURSE CODE DSSL1014 CREDIT 6 PREREQUISITE/S N/A SYNOPSIS This course is designed to introduce the students to learn and adopt several comprehensive life skills in helping them develop skills for daily living which cover a wide array from surviving or developing coping skills in forestry and aquatic, stress management, anger management, communication skills, leadership and social skills. (Kursus ini direka bentuk untuk memperkenalkan pelajar mempelajari dan mengamalkan beberapa kemahiran hidup yang komprehensif dalam membantu mereka membangunkan kemahiran untuk kehidupan seharian yang meliputi berbagai sudut dari kemahiran mempertahankan diri atau mengembangkan kemahiran menangani masalah dalam bidang perhutanan dan air, pengurusan tekanan, pengurusan kemarahan dan pengurusan wang, komunikasi kemahiran, kepimpinan dan kemahiran sosial) LEARNING By the end of this course, students will be able to: OUTCOMES o Recognize knowledge of forestry and aquatic in the region. [C1, CS, CT, TS, LL, EM] o Select suitable evacuation strategies and manage the setup of logistics when dealing with natural and man-made disasters. [CS, CT, TS, LL, EM] ...
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..."Jack, I’m cold” said Rose. Jack said, “It’s ok Rose just hold on just a bit longer, a boat is bound to come back.” Ok Jack I trust you” said Rose. Just then Jack thought of an idea. He said “Rose, stay here I’ll be right back,” and he started swimming to dead bodies, and every time he got to a dead body he took the life jacket from them. He also took an oar that someone had abandoned. Pretty soon Jack had five life jackets and an oar and he swam back to Rose. He gave Rose the oar and said, “Okay Rose, “I have some life jackets, I’m going to put them under the door so we can both get on but I’m going to need a part of your dress.” Okay, Jack,” said Rose, and she tore off a piece of her dress and gave it to Jack. He took the dress and started to tie the life jackets together. He put them underneath the door and secured them to the handles of the door. He said, “Rose, the door should be stable. I need you to hang on to the door while I get on.” “Okay,” said Rose.” Rose grabbed the handles on both sides of the door and Jack got on. Jack started to push the door with the oar. He saw a dead man and took his life jacket. He put the life jacket on and started to push the door away from the wreckage to try to get to a boat. “Rose,” he exclaimed! “I see two boats; they are coming back!” He started to yell trying to call the boats over. Someone in the boat shouted “Survivors, on that door!” Rose had fainted, so Jack rigorously shook her to try and wake her, but it was no use. He took...
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...When an emergency situation such as fire or ship crash happen onboard a ship, the crews of the ship will use all measures possible with their best effort to stop the source of damage, prevent further damage from happening and to repair the ship. However, in certain conditions, the ship cannot be saved; hence the only thing that can be done is to save the life of crew members by abandoning the ship. This decision s taken after careful consideration on all aspects since the benefit might be accompanied by huge consequences. Once the decision to abandon ship is made, all crews are required to muster in the Emergency Station. These stations have procedure that provides a simple standard organisation which will bring the ship to higher state of manning and material preparedness to deal with emergency cases. This allows the crews to clear away all the life saving apparatuses and conduct any other preparation for a successful evolution. During this procedure, different personnel carry out their duties at different stations. The removal of personnel shall be accomplished in phases, which means that crews required for specific duties are retained on board until there is no further need for their services. The decision to abandon ship is made by the Commanding Officer (CO) and the order shall be passed by any means available: loud speakers if electrical circuits are intact, otherwise by megaphone or messengers from the bridge. There are two means of abandoning...
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...Mimi Garner Case Analysis 3 – Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) NETW583 November 30, 2014 Case Analysis 3 – Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) Personal navigation devices (PNDs) provide turn-by-turn directions, maps, geolocation, weather updates, and real-time traffic. They are one of the biggest consumer markets for global positioning devices (GPS) (WordPress, 2014). This case analysis will discuss why PNDs have become popular, the technologies required to facilitate their success, the leaders of PNDs, that factors that contribute to winning in the market place, their future, and how they apply to Technical Course Objectives (TCOs). Why Have Personal Navigation Devices Become Popular? What Technologies Are Required to Facilitate the Success of PNDs? One of the main reasons personal navigation devices became popular is because it has helped people out of unfamiliar places while driving. Drivers often get lost by making one wrong turn or thinking they have an idea of how to get to a destination. PNDs became popular because of it eliminated the use of using a road map while traveling. A PND can either be installed in the car or can be used portably. The advantages PNDs have through car installation are they are easy to use. Drivers are able to customize their preferences and download directions and specific maps. Another feature is that PNDs have big screens that a driver can glance at without taking their eyes off the road. Portable PNDs have been more popular...
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...that develops consumer, aviation, and marine technologies for the Global Positioning System (GPS). It was founded in 1989 by Gerry Burrell and Min Kao in Lenexa, Kansas as ProNav, and in 2010 was incorporated in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, as the headquarters and successor to Garmin Cayman, which until then, had served as a holding company for Garmin corporation. Though their claim to fame came from their pioneering of marine and handheld GPS' for the US Army, they have since expanded into the commercial market focusing on the design, manufacturing, and marketing of a diverse family of hand-held, portable, and fixed navigation and communications products. According to the company, Garmin is a leader in providing “navigation, communication, information devices and applications, most of which are enabled by GPS technology”. Garmin’s stated goal in creating these devices is to enrich the lives of their customers, by providing high quality products that create value for consumers. Classified as a technology and scientific instruments company, it operates in five business sectors which serve the marine, outdoor, fitness, automotive, and aviation markets. The company advances the idea of their superiority in value and performance, ease of use, innovation, and ergonomics of its products, and offers an expansive array of solutions across its various segments. As a result of the variety in the nature of the products and types of customers they serve, the segments are managed and analyzed...
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...Personal Navigation Devices Jonathan Caple Dr. Ted NETW-583-11038 In our present age we have become a society of convenience and Personal Navigation Devices (PND’s) have become a necessity in every automobile on the road. If navigation is not standard equipment on the vehicle you currently own, not to worry, you can run down to your local electronics store and pick up one of these devices. Once you have the device securely mounted on the location of your choice, you will never get lost or have to stop and ask for directions again – freedom! Why have Personal Navigation Devices become popular? What technologies are required to facilitate the success of PNDs? PNDs are small personal navigation devices that give the user on-the-spot location, turn-by-turn directions, traffic, and even weather updates – a driver’s ultimate toolbox. It is said that PNDs make up one of the largest consumer markets for GPS enabled devices. But with the flood of free applications and the growing capabilities of smartphones, the sales of PNDs are projected to remain flat. (Maharaj, 2011) Most of these devices work in the same manner; they download maps, are updated by satellites, or with cellular data networks, and then display this information to the user. Who are some of the leaders in PNDs? What are the likely factors that will contribute to winning in this marketplace? The concept for Garmins’ PNDs was born from a conversation between engineers around a card table in...
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...1. Why have Personal Navigation Devices become popular? What technologies are required to facilitate the success of PNDs? A PND uses a GPS signals to determine the device’s location and display it on a digital map. Additional software brings features such as routing, driving conditions, suggested directions, ETA, interactivity, etc. The main features of PNDs that made them popular were convenience and accuracy of information. Before PNDs, to navigate one would need paper maps. Paper maps can become quickly outdated and cannot show current location. Users would have to know their locations in order to manually calculate a route to destination. A PND calculates the current location by triangulation of GPS signals and software calculates a route based on multiple criteria (fastest or shortest route, traffic conditions, etc). As the technology evolved, more features were packed in PND such as POI (points of interest). While a paper map can aid in manually generate a route to known destination, it cannot help finding a POI of which location is unknown to the user. 2. Who are some of the leaders in PNDs? What are the likely factors that will contribute to winning in this marketplace? If we are talking about dedicated PND, the market leaders are Garmin, TomTom and Magellan. However, if we are looking at the total number of GPS enabled devices that provide navigation features, then the combined sales of Samsung, Motorola...
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...excellent operating and distribution capabilities, strong management team and a skyrocketing market. In addition, the company has excellent opportunities to outperform the market in terms of growth, as currently it is the leader on the European market, has the best product according to various research entities and sufficient cash resources to acquire smaller competitors and to finance the growth. TomTom’s expansion initiatives will provide it with stronger revenue streams from U.S., Australia, Eastern Europe and Asia. Moreover, TomTom has developed strong relationships with leading car and mobile phone manufacturers to integrate its devices into cars, PDAs, mobile and smart phones. As a result, we expect TomTom to report triple-digit revenue growth for the next two years and significant business expansion as both its market share and integrated navigation devices penetration rate increase. All of the above give good reasons for...
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...have Personal Navigation Devices become popular? What technologies are required to facilitate the success of PNDs? PNDs have become very popular in wireless, mobile and stationary models. The PND’s capabilities are vast. They allow the users the ability to search and navigate to their desired locations. Most of the latest PNDs have memory, which allow users the ability to search and store their favorites. This increases efficiency and eliminates rekeying the most common destination, i.e. HOME. Today’s technology allows for each electronic device to have connectivity with the Internet. This connectivity can be used to update software regularly with patches, bug fixes as well as new map locations, roads, highway and by-ways. Even restaurants, gas stations, and stores are accessible via the Internet. PNDs operate by use of a global positioning system (GPS) in conjunction with connectivity satellites. This system is used to gain their respective work using GPS navigation satellites to gain their respective GPS coordinates. With these coordinates the internal system can place them on the map that have been installed within the PND and shows the user where they are in relation to other locations and can even give the best path from point A to point B. 2. Who are some of the leaders in PNDs? What are the likely factors that will contribute to winning in this marketplace? Between the top PND leaders are Garmin, TomTom, Magellan, and Motorola. The PND that I have personal experience...
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...10/7/12 Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) Personal navigation devices have become a phenomenon over the last few years. They have allowed users to obtain real time information such as geographic locations, maps, real time traffic and even weather. PNDs are one of the largest consumer markets with the GPS enabled devices. There are millions and millions of these devices all over the world making it easier for people to reach its destination using turn-by-turn directions by car, biker’s routes, even hikers just to give some examples. It just makes it much simpler to have one of these devices, than going online and get a print out of the maps or turn by turn directions. The way PND works is by transmitting precise signals from satellites, allowing the PND receivers to calculate and display an accurate location, speed and real time information. Together with downloaded information in the physical device (updated from time to time), the PND are able to display the roads, mountains trails and even exact pictures of the locations. There are a few companies that provide these PND such as Tom Tom, Garmin, Motorola and Magellan. These companies are able to manufacture devices with multifunctional capabilities together in a small portable device. With an inexpensive price, they have helped themselves stay on top of the market place. Just like I mentioned, there are different types of people in need of a device like these. If a PND only has turn-by-turn navigation for driving...
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...only come from intrapreneurship. Founded in 1991, Tom-Tom(GPS) (AEX:TOM2) is the world’s leading provider of in-car location and navigation products and services focused on providing all drivers with the world’s best navigation experience. Tom-Tom (GPS) first developed software products for mobile devices like bar code readers ( e How, 2012). By 1998, the company had become a market leader in software for the hand-held Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and in 2002 launched its first navigation product for PDAs -- the Tom-Tom Navigator. Three years after its inception, Tom-Tom (GPS) launched its first stand-alone personal navigation device (PND), which used what the company calls its Nav Core software platform. While earlier Tom-Tom GPS devices were smaller and would only route from a stationary vehicle, the newer models, like the XXL 540 S, include a five-inch, color touch screen, lane guidance, Easy Port mount, user-updated maps and text-to-speech navigation. Tom-Tom has expanded its GPS devices from car navigation to bike and mobile navigation, with prices ranging from around $300 for automobile products to $50 for a smart phone application. These prices were current as of October 2010 ( e How, 2012). Smartphones will increasingly be used by drivers for navigation, including turn-by-turn navigation. Smartphones will increase usage of navigation applications and services but will not...
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...sells navigation systems and services to car manufacturers and OEMs worldwide. Handset manufacturers and network operations are services with mobile navigation solution , map content and services by the business units TOMTOM and TELE ATLAS.TOMTOM financial performance: looking at profitability and financial strength. From 2005 to 2007, the company had a consistent growth in revenue sales with a corresponding increase in net income. This changed from 2008 with a decline in sales revenue of 3.7% and a net income decrease of 136%. This can be accounted by the downturn of the economy but also indicates that TOMTOM did not change its strategy quick enough to absorb the changes in the economy. Sales revenue further decreased in 2009. Also look at competitive strength, TOMTOM is suffering from continuous pressure from competition and decrease in retail prices of GPS units. GARMIN is still the leader with market share of 45% while TOMTOM has a market share of 24%. Based on the above, TOMTOM has a competitive strategy but not a total winning strategy. They need to look at the industry and be more pro-active at market changes and other threats which they identified. TRENDS: Demand for portable navigation devices have declined as traffic and mapping functions are becoming an almost standard feature in cars and mobiles. It will thus look like these device’s market has reached its saturation point. It would seem that more focused is placed on fleet tracking in the satellite navigation industry...
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