Blue Sky Positioning claims to have brought about an all-in-one GPS system, comprising antenna, which fits into and functions from within a cell phone SIM card slot. The latest GPS system has been developed to help mobile operators meet new EU emergency call legislation, and is also expected to help take in the promise of location-enabled services (LBS) throughout the wireless industry. BlueSky Positioning’s latest concept is integrated with a highly accurate GPS receiver and proprietary antenna into the SIM card, which boasts of providing the opportunity to install accurate, legitimately-mandated positioning ability swiftly and economically through all mobile handsets.
As technology advances, GPS systems are getting more and more small; however fitting one onto a SIM card is a symbol of a unique technological leap. Handsets, which gives support to JSR177 or those that make use of open operating systems like Windows Mobile and Symbian will be enabled to give support to comprehensive mapping, location, and route-planning abilities previously set up in out-and-out GPS devices.
BlueSky Positioning CEO Risto Savolainen was reported as saying,
We are only allowed [by the GSM SIM standard] to draw six milliamps, which was a challenge. Most antennas are designed in free space, to have nothing around them. We started out knowing that there would be metal all around us. That’s our secret - how the antenna works, but when we take away the battery, take the SIM out of the phone, the signal is no longer there.
Blue Sky Positioning maintains that it has previously obtained prototypes and is functioning with SIM makers to start introducing product, which could happen by July.
