Tag: GPS

Marshall University Awarded Grant for History App

Marshall University is receiving a grant to enhance an app created by an associate history professor.

The funding will help further develop the Clio app created by David Trowbridge. The app provides GPS-guided information on historical and cultural landmarks in small towns and large cities across the United States.

The university said the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $60,000, pending a $60,000 match raised through the institution, to be granted in $20,000 installments over the next three years.

Trowbridge says Clio can notify a user about places and histories they might otherwise miss. The school says Clio is on track to have more than 6 million page views in 2017.

West Virginia American Water Switching to Automated Meters

  West Virginia American Water is converting its meters statewide to an automated system.

The company announced the $17 million project Thursday as part of an effort to quickly locate water meters and read them accurately.

The company says meters that are currently read by manual or probe methods will be converted over the next five years.

Readings on the company’s 171,000 meters will be transmitted to radio receivers installed in company vehicles. GPS coordinates for every meter will be collected, after which old meters will be replaced by automated ones.

The company says the conversion will enable workers who now walk miles each day to perform other field service work.

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