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. -- FA
