GPS Chips For Cell Phones

GPS chips for cell phones or Global Positioning System chips are becoming smaller each year. A few years ago, this system was restricted to tracking systems for vehicles due to the size of the chips and the power supply needed to run the GPS units plus the receiver chips that pick up data from the revolving satellites.

Nowadays, the GPS units are found or integrated in almost every navigation system and even RF tags intended to track manufactured wares being shipped to their retail destination.

The GPS chips for cell phones were first built in primarily to assist in broadening the service areas and help in conveying signals from one tower to another.

Another purpose was to establish the location of 911 callers who were using their cell phones.

At present though, cell phone carriers are authorized by the US Federal Communication Commission to make available information regarding the location of an individual for emergency purposes.

Some carriers even make use of a technology that can triangulate signals from cell phones among the cell phone towers.

Right now, there is a good chance that the cell phone device being used is carrying a small device that picks up silent signals from space and keeping track of the user's location.

When Chuck Fletcher heard that the GPS system is being used in cell phones, he collaborated with Jason Uechi, a person with more know-how on cell phone technology. They both created the application, Mologogo that uses GPS technology to reveal to the users the location of their friends in actual time.

Not all cell phones can use this application as most carriers have secured the information inside the cell phone and customers cannot retrieve this. Only Nextel has permitted programmers to retrieve coordinates from GPS chips found inside their phones.

More than a few phone companies (Verizon and Sprint) have approved the services that allow the GPS receivers inside the phone to give the user directions or track their kids. However, these services have to be bought and they are not available in all their phones.

The cost of putting in GPS chips for cell phones was high and so companies are trying to find ways to make money out of them. The technology is used basically for location-based assistance that these communication companies are offering to their clients.

One of these is the Family Locator by the Sprint Network. This is used to track a child's location. The child phone is usually programmed to send out its whereabouts to the parents' phone that has the capability to put on view the fairly accurate street address where the child's phone is at present.

The downside of the idea of turning the cell phones into GPS devices is that the screen of the phones are usually smaller and the keypads are not ideal ones for entering an address or destination.

The data in a GPS unit can be used for many things and this could only mean one thing. The world we live in has just become smaller but more complicated and the privacy has been thrown out the window. Imagine seeing your children moving about in real time. Monitoring can be easily done even if the parents are far away. But the possibilities and advantages of GPS chips for cell phones are overwhelming and endless as well.

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