Methods and systems for geo-location optimized tracking and updating for events having combined activity and location information

A method comprising:

• receiving a first geo-location of a wearable monitoring device, the first geo-location calculated at a first time;
• receiving a second geo-location of the wearable monitoring device, the second geo-location at a second time, the second time occurs after the first time;
• determining whether a difference between the second geo-location and the first geo-location is less than a pre-determined geo-location value and determining whether a difference between the second time and the first time is less than a pre-determined time value;
• and
• decreasing a rate of obtaining geo-location data in response to determining that the difference between the second geo-location and the first geo-location is less than the pre-determined geo-location value and determining that the difference between the second time and the first time is less than the pre-determined time value.

A method comprising:

• receiving a first spatial position of an activity tracker, the first spatial position obtained at a first time;
• receiving a second spatial position of the activity tracker, the second spatial position obtained at a second time;
• determining based on the first and second times whether a rate of change from the first spatial position to the second spatial position is greater than a pre-determined rate;
• increasing a rate of obtaining geo-location data upon determining that the rate of change from the first spatial position to the second spatial position is greater than the pre-determined rate;
• and
• sending an instruction including the increased rate of change of obtaining the geo-location data to the activity tracker via a network.

A method comprising:

• receiving a first geo-location of a monitoring device at a first time;
• receiving a second geo-location of the monitoring device at a second time;
• determining a distance difference between the second and the first geo-locations;
• determining whether the distance difference exceeds a pre-determined threshold;
• increasing a rate of obtaining additional geo-locations when the distance difference exceeds the pre-determined threshold within a pre-determined amount of time;
• and
• sending an instruction including the increased rate of obtaining the additional geo-locations to the monitoring device.