Friday, March 11, 2011

The latest satellite positioning chips used indoors less than one second positioning


According to foreign media reports, a newly developed portable equipment for satellite positioning chips can be collected at the same time the United States and the European Galileo navigation satellite GPS information, in less than a second time to complete accurately.

This new product called U-Blox 5, the same name from the Swiss company. The company will next month at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain published on the product. The biggest highlight of the orientation chip "foot boats", you can collect the U.S. GPS and Europe's Galileo satellite data.

It is reported that the sensitivity of this chip as-160dBM, means a portable device using this chip can achieve localization in indoor, in addition to use with many relatively poor environmental situations, such as supermarkets, railway stations and so on.

In addition to this positioning chip in addition, U-Blox company learned 3GSM conference will also demonstrate other products companies, including a GPS transceiver products can be temporarily stored a number of geographical data, so that users at all times at each location without the need for geographical coordinates of the network to download new data, save some trouble.