Connectivity puts precision into automotive positioning

Patrick Hopper
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Summary – While high-precision GNSS is still somewhat of a niche technology, u-blox projections indicate that the market will mature by 2025. To realize mass-market adoption, however, costs must be reduced from the private GNSS error correction services. Sapcorda Services GmbH (Safe And Precise CORrection DAta) is a joint venture between Bosch, Mitsubishi Electric, Geo++, and u-blox that will provide precision GNSS positioning services for mass-market automotive, industrial, and consumer applications. The real-time correction data service will be hardware-agnostic, and delivered in a public, open data format.