Posts Tagged ‘GPS’
Monday, November 21st, 2011
In November a gathering of 150 GPS engineers convened in Stanford at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to discuss the $110 billion GPS market for military and commercial aviation systems, consumer mapping services in cars and automated agricultural machines, among other related industries at the fifth annual Stanford University symposium on Position, Navigation and Time.
A big topic on the table is that GPS is no longer the only navigation and tracking system on the planet any more. According to a November article in Wired, there are four things threatening the future of GPS:
- Next-generation mobile broadband services angling for a piece of the electromagnetic spectrum relied upon by GPS
- Cheap GPS jammers flooding the highways, thanks to consumers worried about invasive police and employers surveillance;
- Cosmic events, like solar storms
- Future location technology that will ultimately push those services to places where GPS hasn’t been able to go.
What’s on the horizon is the new mobile broadband company, Lightsquared, that has been said to threaten GPS signals with interference from a neighboring spectrum. Lightsquared appears at first like it will solve a lot of problems to broadband, by offering cable – like bandwidth to mobile customers through LTE, a next generation wireless service. What’s more, the Obama administration has endorsed Lightsquared – which resides in the same spectrum that runs GPS, which is lower power and gets interference easily.
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Tags: aviation, broadband, FCC, global positioning systems, GPS, Inmarsat, jammers, Lightsquared, location, LTE, mapping, military, mobile, navigation, Obama, PCTEL, positioning, satellite, Stanford University, sun spots, tracking, WAAS
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
The “smart collar” — in development in academia and intended for commercial production in the next few years, use a combination of global positioning technology and accelerometers for measuring an animal’s metabolic inner life in leaping, running or sleeping.
The smart collar measures how animals move and eat and live their lives — and could fundamentally transform how wild populations are managed, and imagined, biologists and wildlife managers say.
‘Smart Collar’ in the Works to Manage Wildlife Better August 29, 2011, The New York Times (registration required)
Tags: GPS, smart collar, wildlife
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
“Kerala-based based MindHelix Technologies on Wednesday launched ‘Tuk Tuk’ meter, claimed to be India’s first GPS-based multi platform Auto fare Calculator that enables the commuter to know the fare to be paid for the distance traversed.
The application enables the commuter to calculate the distance travelled using GPS and calculate the fare due, Christian Emmanuel George, co-founder and CEO of MindHelix Technologies told.”
ZeeNews.com
Tags: GPS, MindHelix Technologies, Tuk Tuk meter
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
“Many incidents (such as the events of 9/11 and the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire that killed six firefighters) have highlighted the need for an accountability system to accurately locate, track, monitor, and visualize the locations of responders on a geospatial map. This will allow incident commanders and tactical-decision makers to virtually observe personnel movements in real time to avoid loss of life.”
This article talks about the “development of the geospatial location accountability and navigation system for emergency responders (GLANSER). The system is a ‘cocktail solution’ in which several components have been fused together to provide an estimate of the user’s location, whether inside or outside a building. We have combined GPS, IMU, ultrawide-band ranging radio, Doppler radar, as well as a magnetometer, compass, pedometer, and altimeter, to fit into a 2×4×6in3 wearable electronic unit. This combination of sensors works in harmony so that when GPS is not available, or in periods of suboptimal RF ranging, other signals are exploited”
Tracking emergency responders in challenging environments, by Jalal Mapar, April 13, 2010, SPIE
Tags: emergency responders, GLANSER, GPS
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
“Networks In Motion (NIM)…announced research findings that show Black Friday holiday shoppers show an astounding reliance on GPS Navigation as they travel from store to store to take advantage of various blowout savings. Shoppers use their navigation devices to search for stores, look at traffic information on the road, and make sure they get to their destination quickly enough to take advantage of the once-a-season deals.” – press release
Tags: Black Friday, GPS, Networks in Motion, shopping
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
An article in USA Today, October 19, by Donna Leinwand, entitled “Car theft slows to lowest in 20 years” cites GPS technology and ignition locks as the cause of this positive change.
“Reported vehicle theft has fallen to a 20-year low even as the number of vehicles on the road has doubled, as manufacturers install sophisticated anti-theft technology in cars and police target organized car-theft rings.”
Tags: car theft, GPS, ignition locks
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