Another day of testing in Schladming meant another day of interesting kit to take a look at. Today we got a closer look at the new Blackbox suspension from RockShox and compared some telemetry set ups too. Here are all the highlights from the pits.
Photos: Ben Hofmann and Seb Gruber
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Not the same thing.
/təˈlemətrē/
noun
the process of recording and transmitting the readings of an instrument.”
Sure sounds like another way of saying “acquiring data” to me.
Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry
Definition of Telemetering from Websters
: an electrical apparatus for measuring a quantity (such as pressure, speed, or temperature) and transmitting the result especially by radio to a distant station
Which reads into the definition of telemetry
1: the science or process of telemetering data
2: data transmitted by telemetry
In other words telemetry is by definition remote and transferring data to a station wirelessly. The real world use of the word does imply real time data acquisition now though vs just standard data acquisition. F1 has telemetry, NASCAR has data acquisition.
What ,does it all mean?