ABI Research forecasts Global Navigation Satellite System shipments to reach more than 500 million worldwide in 2010 and to continue growing to 1.1 billion in 2014. GNSS technology is gaining momentum across a wide range of segments and applications such as navigation, telematics, person tracking, fitness and high precision industrial applications including machine control, network timing and surveying.
The use of real-time GNSS assistance services for speeding up fix times and/or improving accuracy in challenging circumstances is becoming mainstream as many consumer and industrial systems feature built-in connectivity. Assistance technologies include satellite-based systems such as WAAS, EGNOS, and OmniSTAR and cellular or radio-based terrestrial systems such as A-GPS and Differential GPS and RTK networks. At the same time GNSS is complemented by a wide range of alternative technologies such as Wi-Fi, inertial sensors and network-based positioning.
ABI Research’s new "Global Navigation Satellite Systems Solutions" study describes the underlying technologies and status of satellite positioning technologies including satellite augmentation systems, and high precision technology based on DGPS and RTK. It includes an overview of end-user segments and solutions, vendors, and forecasts. This report is part of ABI Research’s Location Based Services and Telematics Research Services.
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