Telit and the leading supplier for GPS-location technology, SiRF, together created a unique GSM/GPRS-module with an integrated GPS receiver.
SiRF and Telit follow the same objectives. "Our cooperation was very productive. We intend to provide exceptional sensivity GPS signal detection while ensuring reliability even under challenging conditions", explains Kanwar Chadha, founder and vice president of marketing for SiRF. The intensive cooperation between the
two companies‘ results in the innovative modules GE863-GPS and GM862-GPS, which Telit presented for the first time at CeBIT 2006.
The combination of our Telit GSM/GPRS-technology with the innovative SiRF GPS functionality in one module and with an ultra-compact size enables us to significantly reduce integration efforts and costs", comments Dominikus Hierl, President of the Telit wireless solutions Business Unit. This makes the modules very attractive for cost-sensitive applications. Solutions that so far needed to access several modules are now able to retrieve the GSM/GPRS and the GPS functionalities with one module. With its modules, Telit enables cost-effective, easy to use devices in pocket size and thus takes this trend further to the price sensitive end user market.
A key element of the unique Telit modules is a high-sensivity SiRFstarIII 20-Channel Singlechip GPS receiver of the latest generation developed by the GPS expert SiRF Technology. "The SiRF technology is the most innovative and powerful solution available at the market. Moreover it is very well compatible with the GSM/GPRS chipsets contained in the Telit modules", explains Dominikus Hierl. With its small size of 7 mm x 10 mm the chip was easy to integrate into the compact Telit modules. SiRF combines a complete A-GPS digital baseband processor with a RF front end in a single chip. The SiRF receiver is able to track more than 20 satellites at once. Thus, the SiRFstarIII-architecture achieves TTFF (time to first fix) of only one second in outdoor GSM environments. As it acquires signals down to -159 dBM, real-time navigation is also possible in challenging environments such as urban canyons and dense foliage.