Location Services (re-cap)

Location Services (re-cap):

Over the past few weeks, we have covered many different applications of location services. Since we’ve gone through a wide array of definitions, I thought it would be helpful to summarize what we’ve touched upon over this time. The first group was classified as what we call “network solutions” (think triangulation) while the second group was considered “handset solutions” (think GPS). To summarize these last words of the day, I have divided the terms into the 2 groups to help conceptualize the offerings of location services.

Network Solutions:

- Angle of Arrival (AOA)
- Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (U-TDOA)
- Wireless Location Signatures
- Location Pattern Matching (LPM)
- Multi-path Fingerprinting (MP)
- Enhanced Cell Identity (E-CID)

Handset Solutions:

- GPS
- Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
- Wireless Assisted GPS (WAGPS)
- TV-GPS
- Advanced Forward Link Trilateration (A-FLT)
- Timing Advance/Network Measurement Report (TA/NMR)
- Enhanced Observed Time Difference (E-OTD)