RECREATIONAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

A recreational facility management system (10) for monitoring users within a plurality of predefined areas for generating usage information. The system may relate to a wide variety of recreational activities during which users of the facility and participants in the various activities will desire information relating to the positioning of themselves and others in the recreational areas to determine locations relative to landmarks or other meaningful geographic markers. A monitoring network (14) is coupled to a facility management processor (12) in communication via a base station interface (22) and hand-held communicators (16, 18) for sending information relating to the plurality of predefined recreational areas of the facility. The multiple hand-held communicators include embedded communicator processors, one each associated with each communicator for processing global positioning system (GPS) and radio frequency (RF) data received to relate information corresponding to the predefined areas for communicating usage information relating to the recreational facility.