GPS World, May 2016

MARKET Segment Snapshot Applications Trends News WATCH OEM 2 40 of Receivers Are Galileo Ready 60 Support Two or More Constellations C hipset and receiver manufacturers are already equipping their devices with multi constellation capabilities including Galileo and taking advantage of available services according to a new analysis by the European GNSS Agency GSA The study examines the global top 31 companies and reviews publicly available technical documentation on their product portfolios for more than 300 receivers chipsets and modules available on the market The parameters researched included such technical specifications as GNSS core constellation capabilities spacebased augmentation system SBAS capabilities and the market segments to which the manufacturers sell their products Each device is given equal weight in the results displayed here regardless of whether it is a chipset or a receiver and no matter what its sales volume The results should therefore be interpreted not as the distribution of constellations utilized by end users but rather the distribution of constellations available in a manufacturers offerings Because some receiver models are used in more than one market segment it is impossible to have a direct match between general analysis charts and segment charts FIGURE 1 shows the percentage of available receivers capable of tracking the various constellations GPS is naturally present in all devices followed by GLONASS Galileo and BeiDou are progressively adopted by leading manufacturers 1 08 06 04 02 Capability of GNSS receivers All segments 045 04 035 03 025 02 015 01 005 FIGURE 2 shows the percentage of available receivers capable of tracking signals from one GNSS that is GPS only two GNSS in various combinations three GNSS or tracking signals from all constellations at the same time The percentages add up to 100 From this information the GSA concludes that almost 60 percent of all available receivers chipset and modules support a minimum of two constellations Of these nearly 40 percent 30 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM MAY 2016 are Galileo compatible Furthermore knowing that the top three providers of smartphone chips are on track to be Galileo compatible by the time Initial Services are declared later this year the actual market share this time taking into account the number of devices is likely to be much higher than the 40 percent of Galileo compatible models The GSA states that this shows a multiconstellation capability including Galileo is becoming a standard feature across all market segments 0 GPS SBAS Galileo GLONASS BeiDou 0 1 2 3 4 of products Supported constella3ons by receivers All segments All GPS GLONASS BeiDou GPS Galileo BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS GPS BeiDou GPS GLONASS GPS Galileo GPS only Figure 1 Capability of GNSS receivers all Segments Figure 2 Supported constellation by receivers all segments