TERRESTRIAL GPS POSITIONING SYSTEM

Smriti Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, Pawan Bhadana

Abstract: Satellite GPS is undoubtedly the most popular and widely used three dimensional positioning technology in the world today, but despite this, cannot provide the positioning requirement in many every day requirements in different environments, such as urban and indoor due to the very weak signals from satellites. Even with high sensitivity GPS receiver cannot be given guaranteed in all situations and accuracies are typically of the order of tens to hundreds of meter at best. Accurate indoor positioning is required for a variety of commercial applications, including warehouse automation, asset tracking, emergency first-responders, and others. In fact, the general expectation of users today is for “GPS-like” positioning performance anywhere they go. Terrestrial GPS positioning is a new positioning technology, developed to address the failure of current satellite technologies for reliable ubiquitous (outdoor and indoor) positioning. In this paper key aspects of the new technology „terrestrial GPS positioning system" are discussed. Particular emphasis is given on the components like PseudoLite, PseudoNet, Rover (Moving terminal) and TimeLoc and their functionality. The technique and mathematical model used in terrestrial GPS positioning system is described in detail. The Results of installed Terrestrial GPS Positioning Systems are demonstrated and compared with Satellite GPS Positioning System.

Keywords: Indoor GPS system, PseudoLite, PseudoNet, TimeLoc

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0204031