Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 31 January 2008
Industry forum promotes high-end GPS
The goal of the EGPS Forum will be to ensure that technologies which enhance GPS are put in place to meet advanced requirements
CSR and Motorola intend to create an open industry forum to evaluate and foster enhanced global positioning system (EGPS) technologies. When used on a mobile device, EGPS technologies augment GPS to provide timely and accurate position information in demanding environments. The EGPS Forum is expected to advocate improvement to location technologies in mobile devices and is committed to meeting consumer and regulatory needs for precise and consistent levels of location information.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 31 January 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Current commercialised location technologies meet the basic needs of consumers and minimum regulatory requirements for widespread use in mobile phones, but high-value commercial services require location technologies that provide prompt, consistent and reliable position information, even indoors, within the limited power budget of a portable device.
Emergency services also require accurate indoor positioning.
The goal of the EGPS Forum will be to ensure that technologies which enhance GPS are put in place to meet these advanced requirements.
The EGPS Forum will be open to a broad array of participants from the telecommunications industry including handset manufacturers, location technology companies, network infrastructure providers and mobile network carriers.
Initial activities of the Forum will focus on evaluating hybrid technologies that enhance GPS by combining satellite measurements with timing measurements taken from cellular networks and on establishing the underlying infrastructure to ensure full interoperability of this technology.
CSR's Location Business Unit Vice President, Stuart Strickland said, 'CSR is committed to delivering embedded location technologies that meet the needs of consumers and portable device makers'.
Strickland continued, 'By working as part of the EGPS Forum with industry leaders such as Motorola, we expect to be able to extract the full potential out of our own enhanced GPS technologies'.
CSR and Motorola expect the procedure for EGPS field trials and performance testing to be in place in the first half of 2008.
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