Posts Tagged ‘gps’

New GPS gadget

Friday, April 16th, 2010

New GPS gadget

Mobile Mark (Illinois, USA) proposes a decision for those who do not want to show the usage of GPS devices in the autos. The organization produced an antenna, placed within the car’s numberplate. In such a way, they managed to provide a high-quality signal detection and also they took into consideration the interests of those who want to use this device privately. At the same time, this antenna will be useful for those who like to combine some antennas of different cordless equipments.
This plastic box of the antenna near the car’s number board isn’t different on the surface from the general box, but inside of such an equipment keeps few antennas, which let to fix up the synchronous activity of GPS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and telecom equipments. The frame with antennas can be set into the cars and lorries.
These antennas are consisted of GPS, cellular and Wi-Fi modules.
Options of these antennas:
GPS: 5 dBi;
Frequencies (850 and 1900 MHz): 2,5 dBi;
Wi-Fi (2,4 and 5 GHz): 2,5 dBi.
Also the association consider the elaboration of such equipments with a TV antenna.

GPS jammers illegality

Monday, April 12th, 2010

GPS jammers illegality

Due to the reinforcement of GPS positions because of expanding the scope of its application, not long ago the United States security services set the task of fighting with the spread of GPS blockers (systems that jam the work of GPS-devices) for the control of various services. That idea seemed to be perfect assuring Google to bound the on-line search results for GPS jammers, according to Bob Brewin, the lead developer of nextgov.com, this idea worked at least for some time.
On the 7th of April a main designer, who had been studying the GNSS problems for many years, was impressed with the number of references in his blog, which Google found on request “GPS jammer” (GPS jamming signal). Brewin immediately contacted with the guys from Google. They said that “The GPS-jammers’ references contradict to the company policy, which bans advertising of hacking and some proper technology“, and that they will eliminate the problem. Indeed, the searching on request “GPS jammer” have no effect in the evening. But on request “GPS jammer” with mark “Shopping” Google found three ad references on the GPS-jammers’ sites.
And there was a great number of sites about such blockers in other SE. In Feb, during the conference British expert David Last said how he reached 185 thousands backlinks on that request. The quantity of GPS-disablers’ sites increased by 50% just in a month. The restriction of search of the exact phrase “gps jammer” by Google will remove nearly 106000 references – but it is a small relief.

GPS/GLONASS car tracking

Friday, April 9th, 2010

GPS/GLONASS car tracking

The Russian assembled cars are about to be equipped with the dual-standart receivers GLONASS/GPS on the assembly belt – said the administrative chief of the “GLONASS / GNSS – Forum” firm, Vladimir Klimov, giving an interview the Izvestia newspaper. According to him, within the ERA GLONASS program, each car will be fixed with the device, “which if it is essential in case of accident, it will send a call or a voice message in the center of traffic.
“Thus, the accidents and their exact locations would be registered, and the subsequent troubles with traffic, too. And, of course, this information will help to respond on the situation, providing the assistance,” –said Klimov.
Saying about the project ERA GLONASS, he noted that “there will begin to operate the analogous system which is founded on GPS / Galileo in Europe in 2012”. “Here it is also said about a dual-standart receiver – GLONASS / GPS. It is planned that the cars which will be in Russia, that they are equipped with these gadgets on the assembly belt “-said he.
Answering to the question about the competition of the GPS from America and the Russian-developed system, Vladimir Klimov said: “SBS had systematically been developing about 20 years, but the Russian system – only 8 years.” “But at the hardware level we are already approaching to the GPS – about the sizes of receivers, the power and the color characteristics. And soon the Western companies will make the dual equipment GLONASS / GPS,” – concluded he.

The Russian company “Rosnano” will invest 550 million rubles in the manufacturing of microsystems in St. Petersburg

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

GLONASS

 

The Russian factory of production of microsystems and detectors will appear to 2012. These detectors will be used in the navigational receivers GLONASS / GPS, in the mobiles and in the high-frequency digital broadcasting equipment. The Roslano firm is about to invest in the manufacturing 550 million rubles, so the total project’s budget is valued in 1.24 billion rubles. “The project’s output on the planned figures should appear in 2015” –said the corp..
It is planned that the main part of project’s revenue will be got from the sellings of energy-efficient and affordable systems, which have a big range of the operating temperatures. And these temperatures are used for checking the stress-strain state of the building structures. The security systems of gas-processing is going to have a high percentage of sales. In addition, the project corporation will carry out the production of microsystems which is the strong to the hard environmental conditions.
The initiator and co-investor of the project is the St. Petersburg firm “Avangard” and it intends to provide “the intellectual property in the patents, the know-hows and in the sets of design and technological documentation”. The organizers think to attract the professionals from main Russian scientific centers, especially – from the Kotelnikov’s Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, so they take part at the development of the new collection of micros.
Experts say that the world market’s volume of sensors and components was about $ 51 billion in 2008. And It is expected that if the growth rate is approximately five % per annum, the volume will reach $ sixty seven billion in 2018.

Find more here

The American Apple’s sale started

Monday, April 5th, 2010

iPadThe marketing of Apple iPad started on the third of April in the United State. The mechanism is sold at the Apple stores, as well as in the biggest electronics shopping centers “Best Buy”.
Ipads, which are now available in the market, have no admission to the GPS network and can’t connect to 3G. Nevertheless, lots of people had gathered at the Apple stores and “Best Buy” before the opening. Some of them got in line at the main New York Apple shops on Tuesday.
The admission of IPad pre-orders began in the U. S. A. On the 12th of March. According to the analysts, the consumers had already reserved the hundreds and thousands of the gizmos, although no one hadn’t even touched them. The iPad worth is 499 dollars for the 16-gigabyte iPad, 599 dollars for the 32-gigabyte and 699 dollars for the 64-gigabyte version.
Shortly before the opening of the sales more than 2300 IPad supplements came in the official Shop. On the average their price is higher than the iPod touch and iPhone apps are. However, the apps for iPod also act on the iPad, there are more than 150 thousands of these supplements in the shop.
The IPad tablet was presented by the Apple chief, Steve Jobs, on the 27th of January in 2010. The iPad is equipped with a multisensory screen with a diagonal in 9.7 inch and a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels. The iPad uses a mobile operating system iPhone OS.
In European Union and other countries, the sales are going to start in the last days of April. At the same time the IPad 3G-version will appear in the American shop.

Read more here