GPS AND OPERATING PROFIT
Author: ENGINNER2001
Modified on 10/07/2007
The global positioning system (GPS for short in English), gaining more ground, more and more devices like cell phones, cameras, clocks, computers, cars use both government and business and personal use GPS technology to provide data location.
A location using GPS as a principle is to obtain geographic coordinates and location through triangulation of satellite signals. This is what makes it a universal tracking system. Whether searching for cities, streets and numbers, the GPS system for points based on a geographic reference system.
The use of GPS has great advantages, primarily knowledge anytime, anywhere on earth our exact location and altitude, that’s because our system acquires GPS coordinates and as an option can be geo-referenced in a map scale of either city, country or continent.
Of course, this is not everything, and a GPS device for navigation and exploration incorporates a trip computer data, which informs us as speed, heading toward which we are moving and the approximate time we reach our destination. In your GPS receiver you can save your important places in all times and know how to get back to them and how far they are.
This is GPS itself.
There are other systems that continue to gain ground, which have included as an essential element, a GPS receiver device. We refer to systems of automatic vehicle location (AVL). These systems are meant to know the location, speed, etc.. of a vehicle or fleet.
This require a medium of communication with his base to send location data, this could be an own radio system, a contract with the cellular network or even a satellite media. To decide on any of them, we should consider distance, cellular coverage, if there is already a system of radio communication, etc..
