GSA releases 3rd GNSS User Technology Report
October 26, 2020
News from the European GNSS Agency The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has released its latest GNSS User Technology Report, […]
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News from the European GNSS Agency The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has released its latest GNSS User Technology Report, […]
Two workshops convened in recent weeks in the U.S. and Canadian capitals, respectively, sought to bring into focus […]
Advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensor technology include temperature-sensing MEMS oscillators (TSMO). Pairing a TSMO with a GNSS […]
Skyworks Solutions, which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has launched three low-noise amplifier (LNA) front-end modules with integrated […]
The ION GNSS+ 2015 Conference once again fielded a jam-packed agenda of papers on subjects from world-wide constellation updates, […]
The September article Receiver Design for the Future is based on a GPS World webinar, which sprang from a […]
How the Internet of Things Now Drives Location Technology
The number of devices connecting to the Internet is growing fast. The applications running on them require location context to determine the most likely use case. These devices need continuous location — not necessarily noticed or activated by the user, but always on. The specification that becomes important is energy per day: the device must maintain its location without draining its battery — and increase location availability indoors. That creates new design requirements for hybrid capability.
Users in emerging applications may have different requirements from traditional high-precision users. Tracking all of the new multi-GNSS signals, and then using the large number of inputs in the positioning engine, drives the amount of processing power and memory required onboard the receiver. These in turn drive the cost, size and power consumption of the receiver in exactly the opposite direction from the expectations of customers.
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