The internet is an open platform, but it lacks ubiquitous wireless coverage and proper positioning technology.
The devices help pilots avoid "terrain" by coupling global-positioning technology with flight data on speed, altitude and other readings, and a database containing the topography of the planet.
Mobile phones, some of which are now equipped with satellite-positioning technology (see article), could be used to alert people to the charms of stores or restaurants they are walking or driving past.
And Apple, which has yet to include indoor maps in its Maps app, is nevertheless employing indoor positioning technology in its Apple Store app to push Genius Bar customers a check-in notification as soon as they enter the retail store.
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Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
The battery-powered devices, about the size of a videocassette, use Global Positioning System technology to report where a trailer is (Orbital Sciences also owns Magellan, the largest producer of GPS receivers).
Once there, they use aerial photography and remote cameras in combination with depth-finding and global-positioning satellite technology (as well as some first-hand testing of the waves) to measure the waves and map the contours of the ocean floor under the breaks.
Johnson Controls is positioning itself to be a technology leader in hybrid car batteries as the industry shifts to lithium ion batteries from nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
Already ahead in ITS, Portland's 850 "smart buses" are equipped with Global Positioning System and Automated Vehicle Location technology.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq, dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin, and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq (nyse: NVT - news - people ), dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ), and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
Though Google was the first to debut indoor positioning, other companies have been developing similar technology for years.
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The city and Korea in general has a fascination with technology and design and is constantly positioning itself on the cutting edge of both.
Look at Garmin, which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.
The technology is now in place to enable indoor mapping and positioning with an accuracy of 1 meter or better!
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Broadcom and Qualcomm are improving the indoor positioning capabilities of their chips and improving accuracy and availability of the technology at the same time.
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Look at Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ), which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.
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But what starts out as government or military technology often ends up in commercial applications, as packet-switched networks and the global-positioning system demonstrate.
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