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.
The Industry Report Store has a highly valuable report for
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