BT-CD110

BT-CD110 bluetooth data logger.

Brief review

Nice little unit. Battery life is great, well over the advertised 22 hours using stanby and motion detection (!), though there's no way to know what the current battery level is at, it will say "Low power" for the last hour of battery life. The voice feature was a surprise to me, I thought I'd be dependant on the merry blinking lights. Some of the sounds are kind of obnoxious (and it's kind of bizarre to have "satellite fix" come out of your pocket at random times).

In terms of getting a signal, it was a bit of a mystery, sometimes I couldn't get one after standing in a clear space, sometimes it'd lock on while in my pocket in the middle of the city. AGPS (assisted GPS, using mobile networks) would probably be much better, but require a different kind of device.

The included utilities for setup and downloading data are basic but work fine, including export to Google Earth format (of course, the actual data isn't exactly complex, so it's easy to do whatever transforming is required). It would have been nice to get ahold of an immediate GPS mapping app, but since I don't plan to run Windows going forward the only option is Google Earth, which is an extra expense option I'll consider paying for if nothing appears soon (ironically I paid for Google Earth when it was owned by Keyhole, Google immediately bought it and my subscription became worthless when they released it for free).

It would have been much nicer to have a GPS device that also included a display, but that would have been much larger, had much shorter battery life, cost a lot more for a device that will be shortly obsolete as there is so much happening in GPS, and would have required paying and managing maps for each new region. This $120 device is a good solution for simple logging.

I had considered the Locotech BGT-11 / Amaryllo Trip Tracker because there is more third party software and it's waterproof/floats, but it is a larger unit with shorter battery life, and the battery is non replaceable and apparently stops working if it goes flat. The BT-CD110 uses a commonly used replaceable battery.

2007 GPS experience

Issues

included driver isn't Vista compatible

The setup program thinks I am running Windows 2000 and am missing service pack 4, and the auto discover driver fails with "BT + GPS + DATA LOG - The system cannot find the file specified."

- fixed with an updated driver.

Bluetooth with utilities

Regarding Bluetooth, the device connects as "BT GPS" and shows up as COM3 (outgoing) / COM4 (incoming). When I use the basic "Set Data Log" utility, I either see "Cannot open COM3" or "Device can not into update mode, please try again." (grammar verbatim).

- have to use USB with these utilities.

Compatible software

Google Earth

- Exporting (via Data Log utility) to Google Earth's kmz works.

Related Sites

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=91359 - usb / bluetooth with Vista

Resellers

http://www.mobilegpsonline.com/mgpsstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=463&zenid=f53ea5cd14fa18d55cdaf2a8905bd227 (Detang) - Ottawa, Canada

http://www.acesuppliers.com/company/information_33551.html

http://www.mijnwinkel.nl/shop4235/productlist4/?_globalsearch=1517

GPS experience 2007

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BT-CD110

Home page

http://artsalive.ca/en/dan/meet/bios/artistDetail.asp?artistID=15

Location

Toronto 43° 39' 12.53" N, 79° 23' 2.16" W Arts Dance Person Asian Origin

Lata Pada is a Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. Pada is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance Company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the Founder and Director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UK-based Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing.Pada founded the dance company in 1990 because she wanted to showcase Bharatantyam dance as an art form throughout the world.

Pada, who attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai, trained under the gurus Kalaimamani Kalyanasundaram and Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan.Pada lives in Mississauga, near Toronto. Pada married geologist Vishnu Pada when she was 17 years old.

In 1985 Lata Pada and her family decided to take an extended vacation to India. On June 23 of that year Vishnu Pada and daughters Arti and Brinda died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Lata Pada was not aboard since she left on an earlier date to tour India for Bharatanatyam recitals in Bangalore and across India; Lata was in Mumbai rehearsing for her tour, while her husband and daughters stayed behind in Sudbury, Ontario because Brinda was graduating from high school; afterwards the three flew on Air India 182. Lata Pada became a spokesperson for the families of the victims. After the crash she created the dance piece "Revealed By Fire" in remembrance of the incident. Pada received a master's degree in fine arts from York University in 1997.

Pada married Hari Venkatacharya in September, 2000. Venkatacharya is an entrepreneur and was Managing Director of Nytric Business Partners and is the Immediate Past President of TiE Toronto. He also serves on the Boards of the Ontario Science Centre and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. They both met while founding the South Asian advisory committee at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1995, where they raised over $3 million Canadian dollars for Canada's first permanent South Asian Gallery.

In December 2008, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to the development of Bharatanatyam as a choreographer, teacher, dancer and artistic director, as well as for her commitment and support of the Indian community in Canada. Lata was also recently appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Dance, York University, Toronto.

This article based on content from http://www.wikipedia.org. Original version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Pada