EGNOS Toolkits Enhance GPS Accuracy
November 22, 2011Free downloadable software Toolkits at www.egnos-portal.eu can help cell-phone and handheld receiver developers enhance location and timing applications with GPS corrrection data from the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) satellite-based augmentation system.
The Toolkits include software packages, demo applications, and supporting materials, enabling application developers, researchers, university students, and others to create, use, and maintain EGNOS-capable positioning applications.
For handheld receiver manufacturers and mobile-phone developers, the Toolkit contains free source code for easy integration of EGNOS capabilities into a smart phone,and all the necessary files for the demonstration application, for use as a basis for a new application, as well as core libraries, to integrate enhanced EGNOS positioning capability into an existing application.
For the simply curious, an EGNOS Toolkit provides a means of exploring and understanding the entire chain from the raw GNSS satellite signal to enhanced EGNOS positioning data.
The development kit provides an easy way incorporate all EGNOS corrections and integrity capabilities, allowing developers to perform real EGNOS integration directly into a smart phone. It works with different operating systems, including Android, Apple, and RIM.
Static and kinematic tests haveshown that EGNOS performed well in both cases: “The EGNOS SDK provides an average increase of 30 percent in position accuracy over GPS alone,“ according to Andreas Kroier of developer DKE Aerospace.
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