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Last week the U.S. patent and Trademark Office awarded Google a new patent that uses a phone’s GPS location and related server-based weather data to determine an ambient lighting value used for adjusting camera settings. The parameters could include...
Inertial MEMS vendor InvenSense ha announced this week the MPU-6521 a 6-axis MEMS System-on-Chip in a 3x3x0.8mm package. The company claims it is the world’s smallest, lowest profile, and lowest power 6-axis solution. Their previous product, the...
In this video interview John Fisher the CEO of CrowdOptic explains how and why his company is creating metadata based on pictures (with associated GPS and sensor data) to determinate the focal point of attention of a crowd. This interview is brought...
Tobias Jeske, A researcher from The Institute for Security in Distributed Applications at the Hamburg University of Technology has published an interesting scientific paper where he shows that Google's real-time traffic service can be hacked using...
Founded in 2011, WiseSec is an Israeli start-up that specializes in indoor location and location triggering for the retail and security markets. WiseSec uses modified Bluetooth beacons deployed at the target location. Most recently WiseSec signed up...
The Mobile World Congress came to an end on Thursday night last week, with a record breaking attendance of 72,000 mobile market professionals, 1,700 exhibiting companies and 94,000 net square meter of exhibition space. Attendees have also measured...
Silicon chipset maker Broadcom is to demonstrate at the Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona their latest GNSS chipset the BCM47521 that includes “a unique architecture to enable geofence capabilities while preserving battery life.“ The...
Indoor Messaging System (IMES) has been pioneered in Japan as a way to provide precise indoor location. The main concept of IMES is to transmit position and floor ID of the transmitter with the same RF signal as GPS. IMES transmits latitude,...
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona las week, GPS Business News met with Trusted Positioning, a Canadian start-up company that focussed on solving the indoor location challenge using a combination of inertial sensors (MEMS) and wireless...
The Chinese GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) BeiDou has opened to public use in December and Taïwanese silicon vendor MediaTek is now supporting the satellite constellation in its chipsets. According to MediaTek, the MT3332/MT3333 SoC...
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) cellular subscription numbers are rising steadily all over the place in various vertical markets such as smart metering, automotive, or e-health. Cellular connectivity remains nevertheless costly, thus leaving a low cost...
Spirent Communications, a leading vendor in positioning test solutions, has announced the availability of test systems with support for BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, the Chinese GNSS constellation that was open to the public in December 2012...
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