Will China rule the Sky ?

And the earth below  ?

Here is the proof – if one was needed :

China Is Building a $9 Billion Rival to the American-Run GPS  

Extracts :

The Beidou Navigation System, currently serving China and neighbors, will be accessible worldwide by 2020………..

The system eventually will provide positioning accuracies of 1 meter ( 3 feet ) or less with use of a ground support system…..

By comparison, GPS typically provides accuracies of less than 2.2 meters, which can be improved to a few centimeters with augmentation systems

[ U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission ]

Beijing-based NavInfo, which supplies Tesla Inc. and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, expects annual demand of 15 million Beidou-linked chips for autonomous vehicles. 

………….foreign companies are including Beidou compatibility in their products. Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of chips used in smartphones, has been supporting Beidou “for a long time,” the San Diego-based company said. Those chip sets also are used in wearables and automobiles.

Most smartphones from global sales leader Samsung Electronics Co.support Beidou in addition to GPS …….as do handsets from local rivals Huawei Technologies Co. and Xiaomi Corp.

China also is the largest auto market, and the government wants all car-navigation systems to be Beidou-compatible within two years.

Volkswagen AG -– the market leader in passenger car sales -- is changing the equipment in its vehicles to enable network access, the company said.

“At the moment, Volkswagen Group China does not sell cars with Beidou-enabled equipment, but the next infotainment system generation for cars in the Chinese market will be rolled out in 2020,’’ the Wolfsburg, Germany-based company said. “ This system will be ready to receive Beidou information.”

Toyota Motor Corp. is in discussions with companies about Beidou, the Japanese automaker said.

The Chinese government eventually will require airlines flying in the country to add Beidou equipment…..

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In my yesterday’s blog , I envisaged following capability of our own GPS satellite navigation system , NaviC  :

“ It is safe to assume that most – if not all – of the passengers in a vehicle , are carrying smart phones with GPS feature . NaviC will be able to pick up this data and    figure out various kinds of statistics ( Ave no of passengers / Total no of passengers ). “

[source :  Transport : an Integrated Logistic Plan ?   ]

Now Beidou is boasting of “ positioning accuracy “ of just 1 meter ( 3 feet )…… which can be improved to a few centimeters with augmentation systems

That fulfills the requirement of : Tracking mobile phones of every passenger in a vehicle !

Dear Shri Prabhuji / Shri Gadkariji ,

I am sure that you are as confident as I am that ISRO team of scientists / engineers , led by ISRO chief Shri K Sivan ( chairman@isro.gov.in ) , are quite capable to implement ,

Integrated  Logistics Plan  [  ILP  ]

Just challenge them  !

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27  Nov  2018

www.hemenparekh.in/ blogs

Added on  29  Nov  :

If your Tesla knows where you are, China may too