Rosum Corporation Debuts TV+GPS Hybrid Positioning Module for Homeland Security and Public Safety Markets.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Rosum Corporation, the leader in reliable indoor location technology for homeland security and public safety applications, together with Global Locate, a leading producer of Assisted-GPS chips and software, announced today the general availability of the Rosum TV+GPS Hybrid Positioning Module (HPM HPM High Power Microwave HPM Health and Productivity Management HPM Hyper Page Mode HPM Human Performance Modeling HPM High Pressure Mercury HPM Hazardous Production Material (1997 Uniform Fire Code) HPM Human Potential Movement ). The HPM combines the indoor and urban reliability of Rosum's TV-positioning technology with the sensitivity and accuracy of Global Locate's Hammerhead hammerhead, common name for a heavy-looking, heronlike bird, Scopus umbretta. Its plumage is brown with light and dark glossy, purplish streaks on the wings and body. It has short legs, partially webbed feet, and a heavy, wide, moderately long, black bill. A-GPS A-GPS Assisted Global Positioning System (used in mobile communications as a positioning system) chip to deliver highly reliable and accurate location in all environments: indoor, outdoor, dense urban, and rural. "The Hybrid Positioning Module is the product of intense, dedicated work to develop and refine TV-positioning technology and then to tightly integrate it with a world-class Assisted GPS solution from Global Locate," commented Rosum CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Skip Speaks. "We have heard the voice of public safety officials and are addressing their needs with Rosum's HPM. Hybrid TV+GPS 3D positioning is a vital platform technology for homeland security and public safety markets, such as first response, asset awareness for law enforcement, and offender monitoring." The HPM integrates TV and A-GPS ranging information so that any combination of three or more TV towers and GPS satellites can be used for positioning. Rosum's hybrid TV+GPS solution also enhances the performance of the A-GPS engine itself by providing it with accurate time and frequency assist information which substantially improves GPS acquisition time and sensitivity. The result is unparalleled availability and accuracy for tracking and navigation applications. Further, the HPM provides altitude information to enable reliable indoor and outdoor 3D positioning. "We are delighted that Rosum has selected Global Locate's Hammerhead platform for the HPM. Our single-chip Hammerhead A-GPS solution with its long-term orbital (LTO) assistance data provides unparalleled sensitivity and reliability, and the combined performance of the hybrid TV+GPS solution is extraordinary," said Scott Pomerantz, President and CEO of Global Locate. The HPM product and HPM Developer's Evaluation Kits are available through resellers and directly from Rosum Corporation. Contact Todd Young, Director of Product and Business Development (tyoung@rosum.com) for details. About Rosum Corporation: Rosum is the first and only company to use unmodified broadcast TV signals for position location of mobile assets. The Rosum solution is uniquely suited to safety-of-life applications that require always-available position location in urban and indoor settings. Rosum is also the first to combine TV and GPS signals for robust situational awareness in all environments. Rosum's leadership includes industry leaders from the GPS, cellular and television worlds, and Rosum's founding team includes the original architects of the GPS constellation. More information is available at www.rosum.com. About Global Locate: Global Locate, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that produces Assisted-GPS chips and software for wireless devices and networks. Global Locate has more than 160 US & Foreign patents issued or pending, related to A-GPS technology. These inventions include Long Term Orbits, MS-Based use of Ephemeris ephemeris (ĭfĕm`ərĭs) (pl., ephemerides), table listing the position of one or more celestial bodies for each day of the year. to enhance sensitivity, Position computation prior to decoding Handover Word, Time-Offset Assistance for combined GPS & Galileo, and Sequential Partial Correlation Matched Filtering. Headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , the company has sales offices in the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. , Tokyo, Taipei and Madrid. Global Locate's A-GPS semiconductors products include Hammerhead, the industry's only high sensitivity GPS High Sensitivity GPS receivers use large banks of correlators and digital signal processing to search for GPS signals very quickly. This results in very fast times to first fix when the signals are at their normal levels, for example outdoors. receiver integrated into a single CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. die. For more information see www.globallocate.com |
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