This winter some of the popular U.S. ski resorts – Homewood, Alpine Meadows and Whistler Blackcomb start using children GPS tracking devices for their ski and snowboard lesson for kids.  Small tracking tags in neoprene pouches help resort security staff to increase safety for children skiing and snowboarding the slopes. Using GPS tracking is included in all children lessons, allowing resort personnel to track a child’s location in real time and pinpoint it immediately.

The controller tags use cellular technology of the Global System for Mobile communications network. This network allows to transmit information, and collect the data at a central server, which enables not only to track a little guest’s location, but also the child’s physical relationship to other skiers or resort staff. GPS controllers also do record real time location, along with other data available after lessons,  including number of trails, average speed, total vertical,  and the whole distance made.