BDS III is available via Location.io in a variety of data formats including regionally optimized, NTRIP, LPP, and RRLP, as well as proprietary real-time and predicted formats.  With the addition of BDS III Location.io is positioned to support mobile devices globally in any configuration, including dual-band or single-band GNSS receivers, and in single or multi-constellation configurations.

“Rx Networks continues to follow up on our promise to deliver Location. Enlightened. products and services. BDS will play a major role in the years to come with the uptake of multiband GNSS in mobile devices including smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.” said Peter Mueller, Head of Innovation at Rx Networks. “The upgrade and expansion of our private global reference network can now offer legacy BDS II signal B1I right up to PRN 63, in addition to the new BDS III B1C and B2a signals, as well as GPS/QZSS/Galileo/GLONASS/NavIC support in L1, L2c and L5/E5. Plus, our network is ready for Galileo E6. This makes Location.io one of the most complete data services available, all with a great Service Level Agreement.”

Look for BDS III to be part of the Location.io software client in early 2020. 

Location.io technologies are already in use by over 2 billion smartphones, laptops, and wearables worldwide. All Location.io services are delivered from Rx Networks’ geo-redundant and cloud-based service delivery network, ensuring 99.999% service level availability.

For more information, please contact sales@rxnetworks.com, visit the Rx Networks booth at ION GNSS+ 2019, or visit rxnetworks.com.

Location. Enlightened.

Rx Networks provides reliable, timely, and relevant location information that strengthens the connection between people, devices and businesses by improving the GNSS experience and creating enhanced opportunities for next-generation products and services.

About Rx Networks Inc.

Rx Networks is a mass-market mobile positioning technology company based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Since 2006, leading semiconductor vendors, device manufacturers and network operators have quietly relied on for their real-time and predicted processing of GNSS, Wi-Fi, cellular, and sensor data for their location needs. Well over two billion devices use their GNSS assistance data each and every day.

The addition of NavIC builds on Rx Networks’ brand promise—to deliver Location. Enlightened. products and services—by now providing real-time and predicted GNSS assistance data in any individual or combination of formats.  This enables developers to optimize device performance for specific use cases and conform to national requirements. Data is delivered via ephemeris in RINEX and Predictions in SP3, P-GNSS and RT-GNSS, via the Location.io platform, will be added in Q1 of 2020.

“Our Location. Enlightened. brand promise speaks to our goal of providing the most comprehensive, relevant, accurate and reliable location data available,” says John Carley, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Rx Networks. “The addition of NavIC in our carrier-grade infrastructure demonstrates our commitment to our brand and to stay on the leading edge of truly global satellite-based positioning and services. The ability to offer NavIC support is extremely significant as it ensures we can support our customers with exactly what is required in any given region of the Globe.”

NavIC, formerly known as IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System), combines GEO and IGSO satellites to provide a regional position, navigation and time (PNT) system including ionospheric corrections.

The most comprehensive global constellation support in market

With its privately-owned Global Reference Network of more than 40 terrestrial reference sites and the most comprehensive GNSS constellation support in the market, Rx Network is the only mass market mobile positioning and service company to offer a 99.999% Service Level Agreement. This, coupled with their unique algorithms, allows Rx Networks to offer highly accurate and relevant location services.

Location. Enlightened.

Keep an eye out for further details on their new Website: rxnetworks.com, contact sales@rxnetworks.com, or visit the Rx Networks booth at ION GNSS+ 2019.

About Rx Networks Inc.

Rx Networks is a mass-market mobile positioning technology company based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Since 2006, leading semiconductor vendors, device manufacturers and network operators have quietly relied on for their real-time and predicted processing of GNSS, Wi-Fi, cellular, and sensor data for their location needs. Well over two billion devices use their GNSS assistance data each and every day.

Precise satellite orbit and clock corrections will be available via Rx Networks’ innovative High Accuracy Assistance Service (HAAS) platform, which supports mobile devices with either multi-band or single-band PPP-enabled receivers.  HAASprovides corrections for GPS and GLONASS (with additional constellations to be added in 2018), along with precise regional Ionospheric and Tropospheric data. High availability is assured with geographically redundant secure NTRIP casters.

“Our real-time precise data corrections enable dual-frequency receivers to achieve centimeter accuracy globally, for Precise Point Positioning (PPP),” said Vincent Chen, Product Manager at Rx Networks.  “Early HAAS testing with a standard Android smartphone running as a single-band receiver and standard smartphone antenna shows sub meter accuracy using HAAS orbits and clocks.  These results are exciting because they confirm the HAAS addition to location.io will provide an affordable alternative solution to traditional RTK positioning, bringing high accuracy to a whole new set of markets”.

location.io includes technologies already in use by over 1 billion smartphones, laptops, and wearables worldwide.

All location.io services are delivered from Rx Networks’ geo-redundant and cloud-based service delivery network, ensuring a 99.999% service level availability.

For more information, please contact sales@rxnetworks.com, visit the Rx Networks booth at ION GNSS+ 2018, or visit rxnetworks.com 

About Rx Networks Inc. 

EMPOWER YOUR LOCATION SERVICES

We are a mobile positioning technology company. We don’t do hardware, GPS or sensor chips; we don’t do mobile apps and we don’t do maps either. Yet, we empower all those who do! We develop ingenious hybrid positioning solutions that unify GNSS, Wi-Fi, cellular and sensor signals for an unmatched mobile location user experience.

These new messages will be available in a variety of data formats, including IoT-optimized, NTRIP, LPP, RRLP and proprietary real-time data. The new signals can support mobile devices with either dual-band or single-band GNSS receivers, in single or multi-constellation configurations, in real-time and predicted contexts.

“Multiband is making waves in GNSS for mobile devices like smartphones,” said Peter Mueller, Head of Product Management at Rx Networks. “Thanks to the upgraded and expanded Rx Networks global reference network, I can get L1/E1/B1 plus L2c plus L5/E5, and the network is even ready for Galileo E6, all with a great service level agreement!”

location.io includes technologies already in use by over 1 billion smartphones, laptops, and wearables worldwide.

All location.io services are delivered from Rx Networks’ geo-redundant and cloud based service delivery network, ensuring a 99.999% service level availability.

For more information, please contact sales@rxnetworks.com, visit the Rx Networks booth at ION GNSS+ 2018, or visit rxnetworks.com.

About Rx Networks Inc. 

EMPOWER YOUR LOCATION SERVICES

We are a mobile positioning technology company. We don’t do hardware, GPS or sensor chips; we don’t do mobile apps and we don’t do maps either. Yet, we empower all those who do! We develop ingenious hybrid positioning solutions that unify GNSS, Wi-Fi, cellular and sensor signals for an unmatched mobile location user experience.

This month, I’m introducing Coder`s Corner, a new series of articles focused on the challenges and best practices when integrating location support in new mobile devices. Over the coming months, the series will explore topics ranging from GNSS and A-GNSS assistance handling, real-time and autonomous Wi-Fi positioning, sensor integration. The series will also cover tools and special OS aspects, as well as best practices for the smooth integration of multiple positioning technologies under the hood of modern mobile devices.

With a focus on location, I’ll share insights and tips along the following key principles:

• How to write portable code that just works: How to support Windows, Linux, Android, QNX and other OSes. Tools and IDE.
• Don’t reinvent the wheel: How to take advantage of a modern OS’ Abstraction Layer and Modular Coding support.
• Making it easy for the client: How to set up and exploit Frameworks and Reusable Code, for example, when working with RINEX data.
• Evolution of Languages: Comparing C, C++ and Java, exploring their relative benefits and optimal fit in mobile and embedded systems.

Rx Networks Inc., a leading mobile location technology and services company, today announced the launch of location.io, a feature-rich, highly modular location platform. location.io enables advanced, seamless indoor and outdoor positioning whether for mass market consumer devices, IoT devices, or specialized, high-accuracy applications.

This new platform consolidates products and services previously branded GPStream and XYBRID. location.io offers real-time & predicted GNSS assistance, GNSS long-term orbits & clocks, Wi-Fi & Cell-ID positioning, absolute height using compensated barometric pressure, and an ultra-sensitive hosted GNSS service.

“Positioning and assistance are no longer different problems to be solved by different solutions,” said John Carley, Sr. Product Manager at Rx Networks. “People expect the same location performance whether they are outdoors or in challenging indoors locations such as an underground parkade or office tower. location.io provides a full complement of integrated positioning and assistance solutions under one consistent and easy to integrate service platform.”

location.io includes technologies already in use by over 1 billion smartphones, laptops, and wearables worldwide. Specific components are:

• Real-time assistance. Previously known as GPStream GRN, location.io’s real-time assistance service supports all popular location servers such as Ericsson, TCS, NSN, ZTE, and Qualcomm. The service is also available in RINEX format or over HTTP for ease of integration. The underlying global reference network, owned and operated by Rx Networks, is highly redundant and supports five constellations: GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, and QZSS.
• Predicted GNSS assistance. Previously known as GPStream PGPS, the predicted service provides seed data that enables client devices such as smartphones, laptops, and wearables to generate up to 14 days of extended ephemeris for fast and sensitive GNSS fixes. BeiDou and Galileo have been added to GPS and GLONASS and are currently available for chipset integration. Full quad constellation support will be available by December 31st.
• GNSS long term orbits and clocks. New to the location.io offering are high accuracy orbital and clock predictions, generated from data observed by Rx Networks’ global reference network. The service supports five constellations: GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, and, in early 2016, QZSS.
• Wi-Fi & Cell-ID positioning. For indoor positioning and as a complement to the other location.io services, the Wi-Fi & Cell-ID positioning service is backed up by a database of over 600 million Wi-Fi access points and over 60 million cellular IDs. For customers with a GNSS chip, the service can be paired with either the real-time or predicted GNSS assistance for consistent performance indoors and out.
• Absolute height. With the increasing number of barometric pressure sensors included in smartphones and IoT devices, the absolute height service provides both sensor calibration and uses compensated barometric pressure to determine absolute height above ground level. This can help refine GNSS fixes and, most importantly, can determine the correct floor level for emergency calls.
• Ultra-sensitive GNSS receiver. This location.io service consists of highly specialized GNSS receiver algorithms deployed in powerful, cloud-based servers, The service enables IoT devices such as routers, small cells, and Bluetooth beacons to self-locate. These infrastructure devices only need to receive an occasional GNSS signal and relay it to the cloud service. Over time, the integration of multiple signal captures allows the accurate determination of a device’s location even when located deep indoors. The service is currently being tested by a major US mobile operator to help determine the location of small cells and home phone units. Initial results are approaching 100% success in locating such devices, a significant improvement over previous GNSS methods.

All location.io services are delivered from Rx Networks’ geo-redundant and cloud based service delivery network, ensuring a 99.999% service level availability.

For more information, please contact sales.rxnetworks.com, visit the Rx Networks booth at ION GNSS+ 2015, or visit rxnetworks.com.

About Rx Networks Inc.

EMPOWER YOUR LOCATION SERVICES

We are a mobile positioning technology company. We don’t do hardware, GPS or sensor chips; we don’t do mobile apps and we don’t do maps either. Yet, we empower all those who do! We develop ingenious hybrid positioning solutions that unify GNSS, Wi-Fi, cellular and sensor signals for an unmatched mobile location user experience.

Outdoor. Indoor. In 3D.

Rx Networks Inc., a leading mobile location technology and services company, today announced that it has completed the upgrade of its GPStream GRN (Global Reference Network) to include the BeiDou constellation. A top-tier GNSS semiconductor vendor has already incorporated this new feature so their platform can take advantage of the extra satellites now available in the BeiDou constellation.

Global real-time assistance and high accuracy long-term orbit and clock prediction products are now uniformly available across the GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou constellations. In Q2/2014, BeiDou support will also extend to GPStream PGPS – Rx Networks’ popular synthetic A-GNSS software that has been deployed in over 100 million smartphones and personal navigation devices worldwide.

In commercial service since 2006, the GPStream GRN is a collection of 26 highly reliable earthstations deployed in 21 countries. It forms the foundation underneath many of Rx Networks’ products, on which nearly a billion devices rely for their GNSS performance. The network is highly redundant and, combined with a carrier-grade service delivery network, is provided with a 99.999% service level availability (SLA).  A further upgrade, to support the European-run Galileo constellation will be available later this year.

From network operators’ commercial and E-911 location servers to GNSS chipset vendors and device OEMs, the addition of BeiDou means faster and higher availability GNSS location fixes

“The addition of BeiDou to our existing GPStream GRN service meant a complete overhaul of our reference network and service delivery architecture while maintaining the 99.999% SLA we’re well known for,” commented Guylain Roy-MacHabee, CEO of Rx Networks. “As multi-GNSS chipsets come to market, there is commensurate requirement for a uniform, reliable and device-independent assistance data service like our GPStream GRN.”

For more information, please see the Rx Networks booth at Mobile World Congress Booth 7N60 or contact Rx Networks at marketing@rxnetworks.com.

About Rx Networks Inc.

WE EMPOWER GREAT POSITIONING. 

We are a mobile positioning technology company. We don’t do hardware, GPS or sensor chips; we don’t do mobile apps and we don’t do maps either. Yet, we empower all those who do! We develop ingenious hybrid positioning solutions that unify GNSS, Wi-Fi, cellular and sensor signals for an unmatched mobile location user experience.

Indoor. Outdoor. In 3D.

Rx Networks Inc., a leading mobile location technology company, today announced version 7 of its GPStream PGPS (Predicted GPS) extended-ephemeris Assisted-Global Navigation Satellite System (A-GNSS) solution for mobile devices. PGPS 7, a system composed of embedded software and an optional network data service, enables two full weeks of sub-five-second GNSS time-to-first-fix and high-sensitivity performance from a single small data token download. PGPS 7 further widens Rx Networks’ market lead in assistance-data bandwidth efficiency, performance and chipset support, and facilitates unprecedented use-case flexibility for mobile phone, personal navigation devices (PND) and machine to machine (M2M) devices and applications.

A-GNSS techniques enable satellite acquisition in dense urban areas and help reduce acquisition delays under good signal conditions by relaying satellite orbit information to a device in real-time over an existing data connection. In contrast, GPStream PGPS reliably predicts the orbits and clock drifts of satellites for up to two weeks (extended ephemeris), bypassing the need for constant network connectivity. PGPS, which has been field-proven in consumer devices since 2008, ensures that GNSS chips and the applications that rely on them always get the fastest possible location fix, even in marginal signal conditions, where A-GNSS improves performance by 10-12 dB.

While fast location fixes are important for personal user experience, they can be critical in some emerging M2M applications, particularly those with low power or extended battery operation requirements. PGPS 7 is uniquely well suited for applications operating under data bandwidth constraints, whether motivated by bandwidth or roaming cost or operational requirements. With its 14-day predictions, PGPS 7 reduces assistance data bandwidth requirements by 99% compared to real-time approaches, and by over 95% compared to other, chipset proprietary predictive solutions. PGPS 7 can also switch to an autonomous mode if it is unable to find a network connection to refresh the predictions before the two-week period elapses. In this mode, the software constructs its own five-day predictive models from available satellite observations.

“Our customers are excited by the leap in performance that PGPS 7 brings to the mobile location market and how the extended ephemeris improvements can benefit new Location-Based Services,” said Rob Kraft, PGPS Product Manager at Rx Networks. “PGPS offers reliability to applications that regularly need to get a GNSS position fix within a few seconds and can’t afford to miss it due to unforeseen network congestion or spotty connectivity – issues that can affect systems relying on real-time/SUPL assistance. PGPS provides a fallback mechanism that covers the connectivity gaps, and extends to the cases where there is no connectivity – all this for less than 5kB of network bandwidth every two weeks.”

PGPS 7 will be generally available for Android and Windows in Q3 of this year. Customers wishing earlier access should contact Rx Networks to become part of the beta program.

About Rx Networks

Solving Every “Where”. Rx Networks is a mobile positioning technology company that develops hybrid positioning and assisted-GPS solutions that unify any available GPS, GLONASS, cell tower or Wi-Fi® information. These solutions, already licensed by leading GNSS semiconductor vendors, device OEMS, network equipment vendors, M2M service providers, and mobile operators, bring instant location awareness and help deliver an unmatched mobile location user experience on any device and for any application. GPStream GRN provides global real-time and long-term prediction GPS/GLONASS reference data for use by any mobile network location server. GPStream PGPS adds GPS and GLONASS extended ephemeris support to increase the sensitivity and acquisition speed of any GNSS chipset, while XYBRID RT and XYBRID SUPL LE combine Wi-Fi/Cell positioning with real-time A-GPS/A-GLONASS support to extend the location performance of GNSS chips in difficult areas, such as indoors or urban cores.

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Media Contacts

Rx Networks Inc.
Adrian Stimpson
+1.604.699.6161
sales@rxnetworks.com

Rx Networks Inc., a leading mobile location technology company, today announced the immediate availability of version 6 of GPStream PGPS, Rx Networks’ Assisted-Global Navigation Satellite System (A-GNSS) software for mobile devices. PGPS version 6, to be demonstrated during Mobile World Congress, is the industry’s first and only extended ephemeris solution designed to support both disconnected and occasionally connected modes of operation for both the GPS and GLONASS constellations, across multiple GNSS chipsets.

GNSS chips must first acquire satellite information before calculating a position, which can normally take 45 seconds or longer and affects the user experience. Some Assisted-GNSS techniques mitigate this delay by relaying satellite information to devices in real-time, whenever needed. GPStream PGPS however predicts the future behaviour of satellites for up to a week and thus eliminates the need for real-time network connectivity. It can preload this predicted information into a wide range of GNSS chipsets to achieve cold starts as fast as 2 seconds. This flexibility enables chipset and mobile device OEMs to address a wide variety of operational scenarios and improve the user’s mobile experience when consuming Location-Based Services. PGPS version 6 also helps mobile device OEMs reduce costs and shorten their product development cycle by supporting assistance data for multiple navigation chipset suppliers through a common GNSS assistance data software stack.

“In version 6, we’ve created a single comprehensive package that combines our unique and patented techniques for providing extended ephemeris GNSS assistance to connected devices regardless of their network connection,” stated Guylain Roy-MacHabée, Rx Networks’ CEO. “We have spent the last 18 months working closely with leading GNSS chipset vendors and device OEMs to design this improved solution and will see it deployed in several leading handsets, laptops, personal navigation devices (PNDs) and pad computers in 2011. This dual-mode, dual constellation product simplifies A-GPS/A-GNSS integration for our customers and improves the mobile location user experience.”

PGPS version 6 represents the most significant enhancements in the capabilities and scope of Rx Networks’ extended ephemeris solutions since their introduction in 2008. Key enhancements include new support for the GLONASS satellite constellation, better extended ephemeris accuracy, two to five times execution speed improvement, and support for single-threaded operating environments. In addition, PGPS version 6 now adds the autonomous capability previously found in the stand-alone GPStream SAGPS product. Regardless of network connectivity, this dual-mode feature enables PGPS to always deliver the best available extended ephemeris by seamlessly adapting between server-seeded and autonomously-generated predictions.
About Rx Networks

Solving Every “Where”. Rx Networks is a mobile positioning technology company that develops hybrid positioning and assisted-GPS solutions that unify any available GPS, GLONASS, cell tower or Wi-Fi® information. These solutions, already licensed by leading GNSS semiconductor vendors, device OEMS, network equipment vendors, and mobile operators, bring instant location awareness and help deliver an unmatched mobile location user experience on any device and for any application. GPStream GRN provides global real-time and long-term prediction GPS/GLONASS reference data for use by any mobile network location server. GPStream PGPS adds GPS and GLONASS extended ephemeris support to increase the sensitivity and acquisition speed of any GNSS chipset, while XYBRID RT and XYBRID SUPL LE combine Wi-Fi/Cell positioning with real-time A-GPS/A-GLONASS support to extend the location performance of GNSS chips in difficult areas, such as indoors or urban cores.

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Media Contacts

Rx Networks Inc.
Adrian Stimpson
+1.604.699.6161
marketing@rxnetworks.com

The GPStream GRN service, backed with carrier-grade Service Level Availability (SLA), delivers data in a variety of formats, including real-time and the long-term 7-day prediction formats used in extended ephemeris implementations.

“Assisted-GPS, or now more accurately ‘Assisted-GNSS’, is all about improving the user experience by enabling a device to get an accurate GNSS position as quickly and ubiquitously as possible,” said Adrian Stimpson, Senior VP Sales at Rx Networks. “With a new wave of GPS+GLONASS chipsets expected to launch in 2011, we upgraded our GPStream GRN service to seamlessly support both the US and Russian satellite constellations, thereby helping ensure the best possible positioning performance in these new devices.”

The existing real-time GPS assistance data service, well proven and deployed in mobile networks worldwide, provides all GPS data elements in several formats and protocol options, including native support for most Assisted-GPS server vendors including Andrew Corp, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Qualcomm, and Ericsson. The new real-time GLONASS assistance data service adds all the broadcast ephemeris elements of GLONASS, in a RINEX-type file format (updated every 5 minutes) or native protocol format for specific Assisted-GNSS server vendors. The GPStream GRN also provides 7-day predicted orbit and clock predictions for both GPS and GLONASS constellations in standard SP3 file formats updated every 4 hours. These prediction files can be used by GNSS chipset vendors who may still have to support their legacy, server-based and proprietary extended ephemeris solution. However, a growing number of leading OEM device and GNSS chipset vendors prefer to use Rx Networks’ GPStream PGPS product instead. This mobile-based, chipset independent extended ephemeris solution yields fast time to first fix (TTFF) and improved sensitivity, even for devices that have limited or no network connection capabilities.

The GPStream GRN service is built on a highly redundant reference network of dual-mode GNSS receivers deployed in 17 countries so that at least 4 receivers see each satellite at any time. This GPS+GLONASS reference data service is delivered from geo-redundant data centers and is backed by a carrier-grade, 99.999% service level availability guarantee.

About Rx Networks Inc.

Rx Networks is a private, venture funded mobile positioning technology company. Its GPStream framework of GPS acceleration solutions uniquely reduce GPS wake-up times to mere seconds while improving GPS signal lock in challenging indoor and urban environments. Its new XYBRID hybrid positioning engine uniquely combines Cell-ID and WiFi signals with GPS ephemeris and coarse position aiding to yield fast and ubiquitous positioning for virtually any device, anywhere. Rx Networks licenses its GPStream and XYBRID solutions to location service providers, semiconductor vendors and mobile device manufacturers to help them deliver a Click’n Go! user experience on any mobile device.

Visit our booth at ION GNSS 2010, September 21-24th, Portland, Oregon.

Rx Networks Contact: 
Adrian Stimpson, Senior VP Sales
Telephone: 1.604.699.6161
Email: sales@rxnetworks.ca
Web: www.rxnetworks.ca

Rx Networks Inc.
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