December 21, 2005 In early 2005, a small group of hardcore GPS geeks (who were tired of their GPS devices not working in dense cities, urban canyons, indoors, etc) got together to come up with a ...

Global Positioning System, GPS, originally was designed for military and intelligence applications until 1983. GPS, a satellite-based navigation system, is designed to locate user exact position ...

Cosmic muons could provide a practical alternative to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) in places where radio signals cannot reach. That is the conclusion of the muPS collaboration, which ...

Thales has developed Robust Train Positioning System network to improve and enhance safety for the UK railway network. Credit: Thales. Thales has developed Robust Train Positioning System, a system ...

Niantic today launched its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its first developer summit. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that AR devices can share the same frame of ...

The satellite-based global positioning system has revolutionised the way humans interact with our planet. But a serious weakness is that GPS doesn’t work indoors. Consequently, researchers and ...