New Smartphone Chips Will Pinpoint Location Down to the Inch

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New Smartphone Chips Will Pinpoint Location Down to the Inch

Post by Royal » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:18 pm

"Disregarding Intel’s proclivity to dub their chips with ethereal names, the latest chip offering from Broadcom Corp. is simply called the BCM4752. Broadcom reports that the chip communicates with four different satellite constellations, which means access to the 59 satellites hovering over our heads, in addition to cellphone towers. It establishes indoor positioning by pulling from a bunch of different wireless sources, like Wi-Fi, near field communication (NFC), and inertial sensors plus its built to capitalize on emergent technologies, like Bluetooth beacons and 5G Wi-Fi access points (using the new 802.11ac standard even though everyone is still catching up with 802.11n). The more precise vertical and horizontal positioning is accomplished by communicating with a host of various sensors, like accelerometers, step counters, gyroscopes, altimeters, and magnetometers."

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Post by Royal » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:34 pm

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Re: New Smartphone Chips Will Pinpoint Location Down to the

Post by Pigeon » Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:27 am

Until it starts sampling from failing or flaky devices.

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Re: New Smartphone Chips Will Pinpoint Location Down to the

Post by Pana » Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:09 am

Royal wrote:Image

Yeah. Like don't carry a cell phone.
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