Thursday, February 4, 2010

GPS EQUIPMENTS

GPS (Global Positioning System) is now widely known as one of the accurate community guidelines location nowadays. No wonder nowadays many mobile phone vendors install GPS to its new series. This is caused that GPS properties are more accurate and flexible of changes.
In general, many people are now familiar with GPS through a cell phone owned. But actually GPS equipment has been specially developed before the GPS technology embedded in mobile phones.

Development of GPS equipment are initially as a mapping aid used for various purposes of research and technology, mining, plantations, forests, geophysical and national defense and security. But in its development the utility of GPS technology is more in demand in general, so that eventually this technology is widely used.


In general, the GPS equipment itself can be divided into several types according to user needs, the GPS Tracking System, GPS Geodetic, GPS Mapping (GIS) and Bluetooth GPS.

Among the various types of GPS, which is well known by people is a GPS Tracking System or popular with the Vehicle Tracking (Fleet Management System). The type of this GPS is attached to the vehicles, especially vehicles for business-commercial purposes, in order to monitor the extent to which the presence of the vehicle. But now this equipment can also be attached to private cars.

As for GPS Geodetic, widely used for the purposes of geology, geodesy, geophysics, Geometrics, or deformation. Even some areas such as mining, is very dependent on this tool to map the locations of mining and potential points of mining. This tool is also very important role in the shift map and find the coordinates of a location, either by human, such as shifting the border, as well as the actual shift by natural disasters, earthquakes etc.


The technology of GPS is being developed, so many other new tools that continue to emerge. The use of GPS is not always using the phone, because today has been a lot of this equipment sold freely. Prices and facilities offered even more variety too, starting from which facilitated with a compass, automatic routing, until waterproof in all weather conditions was available.


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