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2. Avalanche transceiver - Wikipedia

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   Avalanche transceiver. An avalanche transceiver or avalanche beacon is a type of emergency locator beacon, a radio transceiver (a transmitter and receiver in one unit) operating at 457 kHz for the purpose of finding people buried under snow. They are widely carried by skiers, particularly back country skiers for use in case a skier is buried by ...

3. Emergency locator beacon - Wikipedia

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   Emergency locator beacon. An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue. Various types of emergency locator beacons are carried by aircraft, ships, vehicles, hikers and cross-country skiers.

4. Avalanche control - Wikipedia

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   Avalanche blasting in the French ski resort of Tignes (3,600 m or 11,800 ft) Gazex installation. Active techniques reduce the risk of an avalanche occurring by promoting the stabilization and settlement of the snow pack through three forms of intervention: disrupting weak layers in the snow pack, increasing the uniformity of the snow pack, and lessening the amount of snow available in snow ...

5. Skier narrowly escapes avalanche cascading down slope ... - AOL

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   A skier narrowly avoids a soft slab avalanche of new snow on a ridge near Park City, Utah, a video shows. The video, posted by Michael Fischer to YouTube, shows two skiers zip down the slope at ...

6. Bluetooth Low Energy beacon - Wikipedia

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   Bluetooth beacons are hardware transmitters — a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic devices. The technology enables smartphones, tablets and other devices to perform actions when in close proximity to a beacon. Bluetooth beacons use Bluetooth Low Energy proximity sensing to ...

7. Bluetooth Low Energy - Wikipedia

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   Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE, colloquially BLE, formerly marketed as Bluetooth Smart [1]) is a wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) [2] aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, beacons, [3] security, and home entertainment industries. [4]

8. Types of beacons - Wikipedia

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   The three frametypes are: Beacon protocol - Google's Eddystone. URL: a URL (i.e. a website link) is transmitted to the device, eliminating the need for an installed Mobile App. UID (similar to Apple's UUID): a 16 digit string of characters, which can identify the individual beacon. This UID can activate an installed Mobile App.

9. Tyreek Hill admits some regrets but calls for officer who ...

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   Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Eric Levenson, CNN. September 11, 2024 at 3:24 PM. Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill admitted some regrets about his actions during his pre-game detainment on Sunday ...