eRide and Wavecom have announced a collaboration to bring a new generation of location and navigation capabilities to mobile applications.
eRide is a leader in GPS/A-GPS and satellite navigation technologies, and Wavecom a leader in wireless communications solutions for automotive, industrial and mobile professional applications.
Open AT Plug-In technology from Wavecom is a unique approach to combining specific features and functionalities with wireless technology. It allows each part of the system to perform its specific tasks at the optimum level of performance at optimum cost efficiency which is made possible through the use of Wavecom's Open AT Software Suite. This latest Open AT Plug-In, C-GPS, is designed especially to be used in conjunction with the Wavecom Q2686 and Q2687 Wireless processing units and targets all devices in the vehicle, people and asset tracking and management markets.
A key benefit of this solution is that customers are not constrained to using only these initial wireless CPUs since the Open AT Plug-In is compatible with future offerings such as Wavecom's wireless microprocessor and eRide's A-GPS. This is a major difference from alternative architectures that confine development, where the wireless and location elements are physically joined together limiting design flexibility. By separating the two technologies, they can each be updated independently of one another, thereby staying abreast of different rates of technology evolution, while offering design flexibility for customers' products in terms of shape, placement and connection at an optimum cost.
This wide variety of potential applications is of increasing interest to insurance companies since it offers the ability to monitor and track all kinds of mobile assets. For example, transport containers can be monitored as they make their way across the globe and shippers can detect, in realtime, if the container has been illegally opened mid-journey and pinpoint where the illegal entry occurred. This is possible due to the monitoring functionality of the wireless CPU which sends activity and location reports back via the Internet using wireless communication.
eRide's Opus technology is a high-sensitivity GPS chipset (to -161dBm) that has built-in support for aided technology. And, when combined with Wavecom's wireless CPUs supporting global GSM/GPRS/EDGE cellular networks and the Open AT Internet Plug-In, it has worldwide wireless Internet tracking accessibility. The eRide offer comes either fully packaged in a very small module form factor or as separate chipsets, adding to customer expediency.
This new approach gives systems designers ultimate flexibility by allowing them to easily add wireless connectivity and GPS positioning to new and existing systems since the Open AT IDE (integrated development environment) and the associated Plug-In Development Kit lets the design engineers place the wireless and GPS components anywhere on their product circuit board. In addition, it eliminates the need for an external GPS-specific microprocessor and associated memory.
For more information contact Gyula Wendler, Arrow Altech Distribution, +27 (0)11 923 9600.
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