On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:22:49PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 21:40 +0100, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
>
> > May I ask what use a private military contractor has for
> > audiotools?
> >
>
> Most of the defence contractor types working on the -rt kernel seem to
> be doing simulation stuff. But I can think of a zillion other uses.
> There are devices you can scatter around a position that talk to each
> other and can detect intruders by sound and will tell you if the
> perimeter is breached. I would expect active noise suppression to be
> popular with defence contractors. Etc...
One actual application is localisation of snipers. Using an array
of microphones capturing the shockwave of a bullet that passes
nearby, it's possible to work out where it came from. It's used
by the US troops in Iraq.
-- FAReceived on Sun Feb 26 20:21:48 2006
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