Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment for monitoring. The word is derived from the Greek roots tele, "remote", and metron, "measure".

What is an example of telemetry?

Telemetry is used, for example, to track the movements of wild animals that have been tagged with radio transmitters, and to transmit meteorological data from weather balloons to weather stations. ... For example, data from a weather satellite are telemetered to earth.

What is telemetry and how does it work?

In a general sense, telemetry works through sensors at the remote source which measures physical (such as precipitation, pressure or temperature) or electrical (such as current or voltage) data. ... Telemetry is what makes it possible to collect all that raw data that becomes valuable, actionable analytics.