Dr+gps (dead Reckoning + Global Positioning System)

Trimble introduced the new Aardvark DR+GPS module that brings together Dead Reckoning (DR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) on a single unit. The DR part becomes very important when GPS signals are weak, such as in tunnels or in big cities where skyscrapers block the sky. Aardvark DR+GPS module is geared towards system integrators or OEMs that need dead reckoning capabilities to vehicle navigation, fleet management and asset tracking systems.

Dead reckoning is the method used to guess one’s position based on direction and distance traveled since the last known position. If you have an accurate reading of the speed, time and heading, then dead reckoning will be accurate – or at least give you an idea until GPS signal available again.

The 19mm x 19mm surface mount module has an on-board gyro and collects speed and forward/reverse data from the vehicle’s sensors. Its sophisticated DR+GPS algorithm automatically calibrates the gyro and external sensors’ inputs and optimally blends this information with GPS measurements to produce accurate position and velocity outputs in hostile GPS environments such as urban canyons.

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Transformer Prime Gps

Engadget got their hands on the ASUS GPS dongle for Transformer Prime. As you may already know Transformer Prime had GPS lock issues since it first came out and no software could fix the problem. ASUS recently decided that all users needed to get a GPS dongle to fix the problem for good.

Engadget was mostly happy with their hands on experience, citing satellite fix within 16 seconds of installation.

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Teaming Up For Safety

Serious crimes like murder or sexual assault deserve serious consequences. In the overcrowded U.S. prison system, however, sometimes law enforcement departments need to make arrangements for suspected criminals to be placed under house arrest or institute monitored parole for offenders. Unfortunately, many convicted criminals find it all too easy to break parole and commit further crimes even while under supervision. Victim advocates continually lobby for more effective laws and better prevention procedures, but both individuals and law enforcement departments can work together to reduce the prevalence of crimes committed by known criminals when they implement GPS tracking devices into their normal routines.

Many law enforcement departments already use GPS tracking ankle bracelets to monitor convicted criminals who have been placed under house arrest or who have been granted parole. These devices keep track of a person’s whereabouts at all times by sending a signal to the police department computer at specified intervals. In addition, police can set up perimeter boundaries around the person’s home or around specific off-limits areas such as schools and playgrounds. If the boundary is crossed, the device will send an alert by email or pager, enabling officers to address the violation immediately.

Sometimes, however, ankle bracelets are not enough to keep crimes from happening. Criminals can remove bracelets or can commit attempted murders, attempted assaults, and other crimes while wearing the bracelet. Although police officers make an effort to respond as quickly as possible, the damage may already be done. For parents, knowing that paroled criminals wear ankle bracelets may not be enough to alleviate fear, especially if their children or teens walk home from school or must be at home alone while the parents are at work. In these cases, parents should equip their children with personal GPS tracking devices for safety. Children can easily carry the device in a backpack or pocket, and some can even be worn as a watch. With the device in place, parents can monitor their children’s location at all times and can immediately check up on them when they don’t answer the phone or make it to a friend’s house at the expected time.

GPS tracking provides individuals and law enforcement departments with the tools they need to increase safety and awareness. GPS tracking does have limitations, but when both society and individuals take the initiative to use the technology to best advantage, communities can expect safer streets and safer kids.

Gps Insights

I can tell you that for a journalist or anyone that takes copious notes in the field, the Capturx pen is an incredible recording device. As you record data in your special notebook, you not only have your original notes, but when you plug the digital pen back into the docking station at the end of the day or end of the interview, all your notes appear on your computer screen.

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Garmin Forerunner 910xt

Garmin has just announced the all new Forerunner 910XT, a GPS-enabled watch that aims to become your training partner. What is new about this device compared with older devices in the Forerunner series is that it is a multisport GPS watch that can also provide detailed swim metrics data. It is water resistant to 50 [...]

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North Korea Jammed Gps Signals; Forced Emergency Landing Of U.s. Plane

According to a report just released North Korea jammed GPS signals using super powerful GPS jammers and caused a U.S. reconnaissance plane to make an emergency landing. This happened during the annual South Korea – U.S. military exercises back in March.

The plane was a RC-7B and it had to land 45 minutes after take off due to disruption of its GPS functions by jamming signals transmitted from Haeju and Kaesong in North Korea. The GPS interference was sent at 5 to 10 minute intervals.

At the same time coastal patrol boats and speed boats of the South Korean Navy were affected and lost GPS fix.

As we’ve already mentioned before North Korea owns and utilizes probably the most powerful GPS jammers in the world – with a range of up to 100km.

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Nokia Nearby For S40 Or S60 Phones

Nokia Labs is working a new feature that can provide location aware searches on your phone without the need for a GPS receiver. It is called an hyper-local search and we’re not exactly sure what this means. The new service is “Nokia Nearby” and allows you to discover places and businesses near you. You can even use it to share your location using SMS and share the app itself via bluetooth. Your first question might be “how this works without GPS, i no understand”. Well it is simple. Nokia is probably relying on the location information that it gather by querying which cell tower you’re connected to. Or it may utilize WiFi signals to figure out your approximate location. Either way it is seems like a good idea to introduce this in emerging markets where S40 devices are very popular.

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Pioneer Avic-zho9-mev Gps Navigation System

Pioneer designed a new GPS navigation system for electric vehicle owners. It is called the Pioneer AVIC-ZHO9-MEV. AVIC-ZHO9-MEV can estimate the amount of juice left in your car’s battery and take your power consumption to give you an estimated range. However it also finds opportunities for energy regeneration and helps plan your routes accordingly to give you the maximum range with minimal effect on the environment. Other standard features include DVD player, digital TV and radio tuners, MP3, WMA, and AAC support, all around a sharp 7″ screen. It is quite costly though, Engadget says it will be available late July for 250000¥ — around $3,100.

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Navigon’s Two New 70-series Gps Navigation Systems

NAVIGON just added two new GPS navigation systems to their 70-series devices. Both these have a 5″ screen and are called NAVIGON 70 Easy and NAVIGON 70 Plus Live. Some of the features include active lane assistant, reality view Pro, text-to-speech, and a lot more. That’s really it for the 70 Easy. But 70 Plus Live has a lot more features including Google Local Search, Traffic Live, Mobile Safety Camera Live, Weather Live, and a new one called Clever Parking Live which is only available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg – which are included in the price for the first year.

The NAVIGON 70 Easy costs £120, and the NAVIGON 70 Plus Live £200.

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Pioneer Appradio

The idea behind Pioneer’s AppRadio is a bit different – we believe no one hads done this before. Pioneer has just introduced its new product range for 2011 and it includes the new SPH-DA01. At first sight the SPH-DA01 does not seem special. It incorporates the usual connections and a large screen similar to most 2-DIN in-dash units. The interesting thing however is the app developed by Pioneer which can be found free on the iTunes Store. And basically it brings your iPhone display to the main screen.

With this simple trick, Pioneer allows you to access the iPhone menus and other features such as GPS. At the moment there are not many details on whether the iPhone interface will be completely integrated but the main idea behind AppRadio is pretty solid. The system will work by connecting the iPhone cable – which will activate AppRadio. This is good since it means your batteries will be charged as you go but a wireless option would’ve been good too.

It seems that AppRadio is not the only thing that Pioneer has prepared. The company has already hinted at other applications for the SPH-DA01. Software update for the device will be through the microSD card. Expect it to see out late June this year. That’s all we know so far.

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Exact Location Of Osama’s Compound In Abbottabad

This is the exact location of Osama’s compound/mansion or whatever you want to call it in Abbottabad in Pakistan: 34º10’09.55″ N, 73º14’33.13″ W with elevation 3910 ft.

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Here is the Google Earth version:

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We got this information from CNN. If you think we’re wrong share with us yours news source and we’ll compare results. Thank you.

Gps X Guider Back In Stock

The popular GPS back tracking device, GPS X Guider is now back in stock. They ran out out of stock a few weeks ago with very high demand and now they’re replenished and wanted us to let you guys know. You can check out the features but summarize here are some highlights:

• Mark points, and navigate back to them
• Plan trips online, transfer to device which makes it suitable for geocaching
• Display speed, altitude, calories, avg speed
• Use as a GPS logger to record your trips
• E-compass, and an always accurate satellite watch

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Garmin Gtu 10 Live Gps Tracking Device

Garmin seems to be experimenting with a new live GPS tracking device called GTU 10 as we caught a glimpse of it in the FCC docs. It is not announced yet as they have a request to keep external, and internal photos, users manual, and test setup photos under cover for another 45 days.

We’re not exactly sure what market Garmin is after with the GTU 10 but the device is called “GSM/GPRS enabled GPS tracking device” and operates on GSM850 and PCS1900 frequencies. It is also powered by via USB port and that’s really all we can get the from the available FCC docs.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

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Amber Alert Gps 2g

Amber Alert GPS today launched the Amber Alert GPS 2G, a GPS child tracking device. The device allows for parents to create a virtual safe zone, follow their kids bread crumb trail, and be alerted when their child reaches their destination. It even has voice monitoring, and even the ability to monitor the speed of a vehicle your child is riding in. There’s also the usual panic button that almost all live GPS tracking devices has.

The device itself costs a whopping $400 and you can pay between $10 to $60 for the service charge.

We think it is quite costly.

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Indian Himalayas Gps Maps

Ever wanted to get your hands on GPS maps of far away places – whether it is just for vacation – or adventure? You already probably know names like Navteq or TeleAtlas can’t help you out much. Don’t even think about Garmin – we’re talking about places where cars won’t make – or never seen before.

Then you’re going to have to go with smaller names – people who make the GPS maps themselves. Guys here are working some GPS maps for your most remote travels plans and so far they have the following:

Indian Himalayas

Excellent maps of Ladakh that includes road from Kargil to Leh, Nubra & Shyok Valley, Zanskar Valley, Kargil and Dah Hanu, Shyok and the North East, Leh to Tso Moriri, and even extreme South East.

Another set of maps are for Lahaul AND Spiti, which is split into Manali to Keylong, Manali to Spiti, Spiti West and Spiti East, Lingti Valley, Pin Valley, and Kinnaur to Spiti.

There’s even the maps for the part from Keylong in Lahaul up to Leh – not found anywhere else.

Sri Lanka

For Sri Lanka the there are 20 maps which cover main roads, secondary roads, small roads, and even 4 wheel drive and dirt tracks. Maps are about 6500×7500 pixels where each one is about 4-5 MBs. There are also detailed town maps for most cities and tourist destinations including Colombo, Galle, Kandy, Anuradapura, etc.

Maldives

GPS maps for Maldives include 11 maps, based on very accurate measurements and high resolution satellite images. The capital city of Male will have a street level map very soon.

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Trimble Yuma

Trimble just announced a very impressive rugged tablet computer with integrated GPS capabilities, called Trimble Yuma. Trimble Yuma has a 7? sunlight readable display, solid state drive with 32GB of space, and 2 integrated cameras both of which are capable of geotagging.

• Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor
• 32 GB solid state hard drive
• Integrated WiFi b/g
• Integrated Bluetooth 2.0
• Integrated GPS
• 2 integrated cameras
• ExpressCard slot
• SDIO slot
• Outdoor rugged design
• 7? sunlight readable touchscreen display
• Light Weight (2.6 lb. with standard batteries)

Trimble Yuma runs Windows Vista Business, and meets MIL-STD-810F military standards for drops, vibration and humidity. Its IP67 rating means it’s impervious to dust and water and it operates in temperatures from -30 to 60 °C. Yuma can be mounted on a tripod or pole for data collection, or even secured in a vehicle-mount. Not bad at all.

However do not get your hopes up to see this at a store near you. Trimble Yuma is designed for public safety, field service, forestry, utilities, mapping, and or military related applications. If you don’t have a government contract you probably won’t be able to afford one.

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Trywin Dtn-vx003 Gps Navigation System

Now they have GPS navigation systems with OLED screens in Japan. Called DTN-VX003, and manufactured by Trywin this device has a 4.1″ touch display with 480×272 resolution and offers a spacious 4GB internal memory.

Other features include SD/SDHC memory expansion slot, 1Seg Digital TV tuner, FM radio, FM transmitter, and multimedia support.

Available in Japan for 44800 Yens… via

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Gsmart S1200

GSmart S1200 from Gigabyte is yet another smartphone that came out of MWC. Just like all the others GSmart S1200 also boasts a large touch screen interface (3.1″; 480×800 pixels) and location based services.

Here are some specs for you:

• Built-in GPS
• Wi-Fi
• Mini USB 2.0
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 1010 mAh battery
• 3MP camera with autofocus
• MicroSD card slot
• 528 MHz Qualcomm processor
• 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM

GSmart S1200 will be available before mid 2009. We don’t know price on this just yet… via

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Alpine Pnd-k3msn Now Shipping

Alpine PND-K3msn we mentioned couple of weeks ago has started shipping and the price is announced to be $300. When you purchase you’ll get 3 months of free subscription to the MSN Direct service which provides traffic information, weather reports, gas prices, movie times, news and alerts, local event information and stock prices at 134 metropolitan areas in U.S. and Canada.

You also get the ’send-to-gps’ features which is probably the most useful feature of MSN Direct. You can find addresses, businesses, etc at Live Search Maps and send it directly to your device from a PC, all wireless.

A comparable Garmin is the nuvi 785T which costs $600 but it is different from K3msn since it offers lane assist. Also check out our review of the older model Alpine PND-K3.

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Alpine Pnd-k3 Now Only $200

Remember the Alpine PND-K3 we reviewed back in December? It used to go for $350 but now we hear they’ve cut the price back to $200. That’s almost 50% off. It is a good deal if you ask us. Amazon already has the new price for PND-K3.

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