Industry Report Store Blogs: Cloud Technology, GPS and the Innovations of Modern Warfare

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Cloud Technology, GPS and the Innovations of Modern Warfare

One of the most frustrating constraints of a smartphone is the battery life. With so much going on - apps running, music playing, wifi searching and photo taking, the modern phone cannot compete with battery life in the way your old brick would. Gone are the days of charging your handset once every three days; now we must charge our mobile three times in one day! With this being an obvious and much talked about customer complaint, technology companies are trying their best to find ways to either: increase the battery power without ending up with a handset that would look at home in 1989, or invent technologies that connect to other power and information centres.

Cloud technology is changing everything, and luckily for the phone companies, it’s providing some solutions to their battery problems. One of the biggest drains on battery power is GPS, which needs to constantly connect to satellites and download data simply to pinpoint an initial location. A researcher from Microsoft Research, Jie Liu, reckons that in a standard device, constant GPS sensing would burn through a battery in just six hours. Liu and his team have developed a GPS system using cloud technology which requires only a few milliseconds of satellite information, and then pulls data from various cloud servers. The GPS chip is then essentially delegating, resulting in a much smaller drain on the power source.

This system is known as CLEO (Cultivating the Long tail in Environmental Observations) and is claimed to perform continuous GPS sensing for over a year from just two AA batteries. Aside from the implications of this technology for smartphones and other consumer-wares such as GPS systems in private vehicles, this emerging technology is massive for the military, who rely on GPS systems to ensure the safety of their troops. As armies around the globe strive to be the leaders in technology-led modern warfare, something like cloud-powered GPS could have an incredible impact on the future of military operations.

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