High tech company Sparklike Ltd. is launching a first CE certified GPS repeater along an entire GPS product family accepted by the information and telecommunication administrator. The GPS repeater transmits GPS signal to indoors and enables the GPS terminals, like navigators and GPS follow–up systems to work in places where there are no straight lines of sight to satellites.
GPS repeater systems are first taken into use in Finland and Sweden by the local rescue and emergency institutions. Products have also been installed to indoor premises that are in the use of police, airline companies and companies that are involved in GPS product service and research. Also the suitability for the product in the use of the military forces will be investigated in the future.
How does a GPS repeater work?
GPS repeater is a device that is used to transmit GPS signals to places where they normally can not reach. The GPS repeater operates by receiving GPS satellite signals with an antenna located outside the building and re–transmits them indoors or covered spaces. The use of re–transmitted signals mean that the GPS receiver is tracking the current GPS status. This means that when the receiver (navigator etc.) is moved from indoors to outside, the GPS receiver is instantly tracking the location, instead of several minutes consuming acquisition of current GPS state.
The limited using readiness for GPS devices indoors is history
The biggest advantage for the GPS signal transmitted indoors are most definitely in rescue and emergency situations where the rescue vehicles have their terminals in state of readiness already before the alert. Therefore it will not take several minutes from the navigators in the vehicles to locate the moving car and the receive right route to the destination. This reduction of the reaction time can save human lives. Also the automatic/instant location for other vehicles or security transportations in the beginning or destination depots is important in most cases for the security and tracking ability of the transportation.
Sparklike Ltd.
The business idea of Sparklike is to create open minded innovations of high technology for measurement purposes to help customers in their processes and quality control. Besides GPS technology Sparklike has been involved in the IG industry since its foundation in 2000 and has launched two revolutionary gasglass products; Gasglass 1002 and Gasglass Handheld. Both Gasglass products are based on patented technology. Gasglass devices are mainly used by IG manufacturers, window and door manufacturers and by testing laboratories. Additionally Sparklike Ltd. is involved in GPS technology with its ROGER –product line. ROGER GPS–repeaters work on L1 frequency and are later expanded to cover also Glonass and Galileo frequencies. The device has been CE certified in 2008.
