For more than 20 years, the use of global positioning system (GPS) has been the gold standard for outdoor navigation. The satellite-based navigation system has become an indispensable tool for...

Cambridge Consultants, a British developer of innovative products, has announced a new technology that can accurately detect someone’s location indoors when GPS drops out. A number of sensors and a...

Beneath the surface of this tropical paradise in the city of Townsville on Australia's Sunshine Coast lies a still hidden maze of tunnels and underground bunkers, said once to have...

OLinkStar has announced an integrated GNSS/MEMS Inertial Navigation System (INS) system, PNS100BGI. The system integrates GPS/ Compass /GLONASS, MEMS IMU, magnetometer, and barometer to deliver a reliable 3D navigation solution....

The above message from the Chilian miners must now be one of the famous ever to have been scribbled on a scrap of paper. It flew around the world as...

GPS receivers, digital compasses (magnetometers) and tilt sensors (accelerometers) are increasingly implemented in state-of-the-art smartphones such as the iPhone and various Android Phones. The resulting data on location, azimuth, and...