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Thursday, February 5. 2009
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SiRF Technology’s GPS Solutions in SYNC with Ford Cars…Literally
SiRF Technology is providing the GPS chip set for Ford Motor Corporation’s SYNC technology to support location-based applications. SYNC was developed jointly with Microsoft and was launched 18 months ago on selected Ford vehicles. It is an in-dash system for advanced connectivity, communication and entertainment but, as importantly, functions as platform for many other applications that can be expanded when the demand is needed. On January 8th at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Ford announced that SYNC’s new features will now include Traffic by INRIX and driving directions supported by TeleNav that leverage SiRF’s technology.
SiRF is working with M/A-COM Technology Solutions, a tier 1 electronics supplier to Ford that is supplying an integrated module to Ford that includes the SiRF chip set with antenna, receiver, and memory as well as a Bluetooth-enabled phone. M/A-Com is responsible for linking location to the car’s architecture bus and making sure it works indoors as well as outdoors.
The technology of M/A-Com and SiRF that is being supplied to Ford will use the car’s architecture bus to take information from the car’s many other sensors to compliment the GPS. Using a SiRF Star II GPS chip set, SiRF developed new software architecture to work with the car’s sensors. This allows the SiRF GPS chips to calibrate the vehicle’s sensors, such as an internal gyroscope, and the vehicle’s sensors will in turn support location determination if a GPS signal is not available.
When GPS is not reliable, the combined measurements of speed and heading as well as the odometer are used to determine the vehicles location. The vehicle’s internal gyroscope is involved to help also determine whether the car is going forward or reverse so that location accuracy will be maintained. Other vehicle sensors are so accurate so as to detect whether the wheels are drifting and if the car tires are expanding, both of which might affect the vehicle’s position over long distances. In that case, the M/A-COM modules is sophisticated enough to perform the recalibration needed to correct location.
Posted by Joe Francica
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Tuesday, November 25. 2008
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Podast: Geo and the Economic Downturn
Whatever you choose to call the current economic situation, it's clearly impacting everything, worldwide in one way or another. This week we look into the crystal ball to think though the impact on the geospatial technology industry. More that one company in the industry has seen its stock not just fall but plummet; some are cutting jobs. But what about those in government positions? What about software vendors? Consultants? What's the prognosis for gadgets and phones? Join us to see if you agree with editors' perspective.
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Posted by Adena Schutzberg
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Monday, November 10. 2008
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TeleNav offers Connected GPS; Berkeley/Nokia Work Traffic via Cell Phones
TeleNav is known as the company that provides voice directions on your cell phone. Now it's in the hardware business with the $300 TeleNav Shotgun. That includes 3 months of service - monthly service starts at $11 and packages are available. It's a connected solution, not using wi-fi, as the Dash Express (the company is now out of the hardware biz) did but rather GPRS (cell network).
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Posted by Adena Schutzberg
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Friday, October 24. 2008
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Traffic: The New Killer App?
While at the deCarta devCON event today, I heard it said twice by deCarta executives that traffic was the new killer app. I guess I thought that traffic has been around for long enough that it certainly wasn't new and as far as a killer app, it is not a stand alone application and is merely now just included with most cellular nav services and will be soon with connected navigation devices (CNAVs). So, will traffic data, whether real-time or predictive, be a killer app?
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Posted by Joe Francica
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Friday, September 19. 2008
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Traffic by Cell Phone Movement Biz Funded
Atlanta-based cell phone tracking for traffic data firm IntelliOne sewed up $14.5 million in investments to bring it product to more markets. Currently only a available in a few markets in the US. the plan is contracts in 18 countries by December 2009 and a contract with a major U.S. cellular service carrier by year’s end. Those without GPS in their phones will be able to use the service.
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Posted by Adena Schutzberg
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Thursday, August 21. 2008
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GPS Impacts to the Portable Device Market: An Update
I attended a webinar today conducted by Park Associates on how GPS is influencing the portable device market and specifically the personal navigation device (PND) market. As we are constantly being asked how big any particular segment of the geospatial and LBS martkets are, I wanted to share some of their insights with you:
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Posted by Joe Francica
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