Board And Bike-Based Sports Sensor Systems, And Associated Methods

Abstract

A product integrity tracking shipping label includes a label body for attaching to a product to be shipped or to packaging containing the product. One or more movement monitoring configured with the label body detects a movement metric of the product. A microprocessor configured with the label body and in communication with the one or more movement monitoring devices time-tags the movement metric when the movement metric exceeds a pre-selected threshold. A product integrity tracking system includes a movement monitoring device with one or more sensors for attachment to a product or packaging containing the product. The movement monitoring device senses at least one movement event during handling of the product. A processor compares the movement event with a pre-selected event threshold, and time-tags and stores above-threshold movement events in a memory. Information in the memory is readable via an interrogation device during shipment or at product delivery.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . Board based sports sensor, comprising:
 a housing having an integrated circuit with
 (a) a detector sensitive to physical movement of the board when the housing is attached to the board, 
 (b) a global positioning system receiver for determining a location of the board, and 
 (c) a processor for processing data of the detector to determine both airtime experienced by the board and g-force experienced by the board; and 
   a transmitter communicatively coupled with the integrated circuit for communicating the location of the board and one or both of the airtime and the g-force experience by the board to a remote receiver.