GPS World, February 2016
MOBILEUPDATE NEWTECH NEWSBRIEFS 8M DEVICES MANAGE FLEETS WORKERS Eight million GPS wireless devices are used to manage fleet vehicles trailers construction equipment and mobile workers according to a new report by C J Driscoll Associates a supplier of telematics market research and consulting services According to the 2016 17 U S Mobile Resource Management MRM Systems Market Study by 2019 this market will expand to more than 14 million units and annual hardware and service revenues will grow to nearly 47 billion The study provides in depth information on each major MRM market segment ublox Offers Platform for Wearables T he new u blox 8 GPS GLONASS receiver platform coming in the second quarter of 2016 complements the u blox GNSS platform portfolio by addressing power sensitive usage The existing u blox M8 platform continues to serve applications where navigation performance and highest accuracy are paramount u blox 8 offers significant improvements over its predecessor u blox 7 The tracking sensitivity has been increased by 4 dBm and is now 166 dBm The enhanced odometer functionality a new geofencing feature and optimized preset power save modes can halve the power requirements for sport products Also AssistNow which boosts GNSS acquisition performance has been improved The new positioning platform is designed for all battery powered devices especially wearables and sports trackers NEXTNAV RECEIVES SUPPORT FOR METROPOLITAN BEACON SYSTEM The final specification for 3GPP Release 13 will include messaging support for the Metropolitan Beacon System MBS NextNav is deploying MBS positioning technology across the U S to allow mobile phones and other devices to reliably determine their location in indoor and urban environments where GPS signals cant be received NextNav has adopted MBS for its nationwide deployment which it calls a terrestrial constellation bringing GNSS like positioning performance to indoor and urban environments where satellite based positioning is either unavailable or significantly degraded By standardizing the core network information flow in 3GPP support for MBS will become available across any Release 13 compliant longterm evolution LTE network platforms globally similar to previously standardized GNSS systems such as GPS GLONASS BeiDou and Galileo satellite signals NextNavs system is complementary to GPS and delivers hig precision latitude longitude and floor level altitude in GPS challenged areas such as indoors and urban locations across an entire metropolitan area FEBRUARY 2016 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 57
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