ABI Research Sees GPS Here, There and Everywhere.OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. , N.Y. -- Many inventions soon find uses far beyond what their inventors intended. The Global Positioning System Global Positioning System: see navigation satellite. Global Positioning System (GPS) Precise satellite-based navigation and location system originally developed for U.S. military use. is a splendid example. Created by the US Department of Defense for military navigation, GPS is now as prevalent as the common cold. It is the middle of the night on a farm in the American midwest, and a tractor is spraying pesticides, guided by GPS. GPS guidance of farm and construction machinery has been growing since the late 1990s, and allows farmers to work more efficiently around the clock. In California, high-risk parolees are being tracked by permanently-attached GPS ankle bands. Their accuracy allows law-enforcement agencies to be alerted if, for example, a monitored sex offender sex offender n. generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. too closely approaches a preset exclusion zone A zone established by a sanctioning body to prohibit specific activities in a specific geographic area. The purpose may be to persuade nations or groups to modify their behavior to meet the desires of the sanctioning body or face continued imposition of sanctions, or use or threat of such as a playground. According to ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research senior analyst of wireless connectivity Philip Solis, such examples show that this single technology has the flexibility to be included in a huge variety of applications. "In the fishing-grounds of Asia, GPS tracking of fishing boats' locations is being used to resolve territorial fishery disputes. Some U.S. army ordnance now uses GPS to replace the glowing tracer bullets previously used for targeting." Closer to everyday life, HP has launched a new 'smartphone' that includes GPS in addition to its roster of communications technologies, GSM, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and EDGE. The addition of GPS enables the emerging breed of location-based services that will be able to provide everything from road navigation to restaurant-finding. ABI Research's study, "Satellite Positioning Systems and Devices", covers all these uses of GPS and more. "What makes this study popular," notes Solis, "is that it examines virtually all current applications for GPS, not just telematics and mobile phones." The study's latest edition has broadened its coverage to include agricultural and construction machinery GPS systems, as well as the many kinds of human and animal tracking. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in automotive, wireless, semiconductors, broadband, and energy. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500. |
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