Location-Finding and GPS l Qualcomm Foundational Inventions
Whether you’re ordering food delivered to your home or navigating through a new city, location-finding and GPS technologies are an invaluable part of our daily lives. This foundational technology family that helps our tiny devices in our pockets know where we are on the planet is the direct result of years of intensive research, inventing, and testing by Qualcomm’s engineers.
Qualcomm invents the mobile technologies people use every day. But what does a location-finding technology like assisted GPS do? Put simply, assisted GPS obtains positioning data from satellites (the “global positioning” part of GPS), while adding an extra layer of information from terrestrial network resources like cell towers, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Essentially, it combines all the best parts of GPS tracking with local location tracking from other resources your device is already using to help find your location quickly and accurately.
Assisted GPS is one of Qualcomm’s hundreds of different inventions in location-finding. These inventions have dramatically reduced power consumption, dropped costs, and saved space through reuse of components — setting the stage for even better location accuracy and speed while reducing power requirements on devices too.
Our smaller, more efficient devices with lightning-fast location-finding technologies and are the result of years of dedicated R&D efforts by our world-leading engineers. Qualcomm’s inventions in the field of location-finding have completely changed how we live, allowing us to effortlessly explore new cities, have our favorite restaurant deliver to wherever we are, or allow emergency responders to quickly assist those in need.
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