Positioning

The Global Position System (GPS) has turned 25 years old. Operated by the US Space Force, the constellation of navigational satellites went fully operational on April 27, 1995, though US Space Command made the formal announcement in July of that year.

A Finnish device named Yepzon aims to offer an easy to use child tracking solution that has no buttons. It connects via NFC to a mobile device, and features Bluetooth, GPS and mobile phone network location.

A new smartphone app and add-on hardware component could provide an alternative to costly avalanche tranceivers that is not only cheaper than dedicated devices, but also provides additional functionality.

Assistant professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the University of Texas at Austin has succeeded in spoofing the GPS-based navigational system and changing the course of a superyacht equipped with the very latest navigational aids.

A new algorithm developed at the University of Birmingham is capable of making accurate educated guesses as to where you are going to be in 24 hours time.

Local magnetic field anomalies can be used for indoor positioning independent of external infrastructures.

By listening to the complexity of radio signals that pervades the human environment, BAE Systems thinks its new positioning system, NAVSOP, is as accurate as, but more secure than, GPS.

Designed to end any dependence on the US-maintained Global Positioning System (GPS), the second generation of China's independent Beidou satellite navigation system has begun operations.

EGNOS, a free to access satellite based augmentation system (SBAS) that improves the accuracy of current Global Positioning System (GPS) signals in Europe from about ten meters to two meters is now operational.

The TomTom GO 950 LIVE features an improved user interface and live data feeds for the road.

Squad firefighter positioning system makes firefighting safer, will help save lives.