And the earth below ?
Here is the proof – if one was needed :
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 ,
Just challenge
them !
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27 Nov
2018
www.hemenparekh.in/ blogs
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