While the list is vast, inertial sensors applications can essentially be described as being either navigation or motion analysis and control. Motion Analysis and Control detects linear movement, vibration, shock, tilt, or rotation, and uses that information for automation, precision control, safety, maintenance, or other improvements. The diversity of applications, as well as the diversity of designers and their level of sophistication, make a highly integrated, simple, yet programmable device desirable. Using tilt or rotation information can be used to stabilize an antenna or remote camera. Detecting a shock event can be useful as a tamper-detection device on expensive equipment or cargo, or as an event recorder for warranty purposes. Factory automation, robotics, and medical devices such as portable ultrasound and prosthetic limbs are other areas that benefit from inertial sensors. Gyros and accelerometers are also extremely useful in navigation applications in land vehicles, aircraft, personal locators, surgical instruments, and robotics. Optimized sensor combinations with embedded processing and compensation help improve the reliability and the stability of a signal. With the order of magnitude improvements in IMU costs are now possible with the advancements in MEMs inertial sensors and the benefits they offer in performance, size, power, and cost.