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soon all cameras will have GPS

Apr 12, 2010 casio, geotag, gps navigation

We’re already seen some digital cameras with embedded GPS receivers (Altek, Samsung CL65, Samsung ST1000, Sony HX5V, Casio) to make geotagging of photos more of a standard thing rather than the exception. They’re not quite mainstream just yet but we can see this happening in the very near future. Some recent news suggests that industrial handheld computers with cameras are also headed in this direction. Antenova is a company that embeds (as you may have guessed) antenna’s in pretty much anything and their M10264 GPS Radionova RF antenna module was just selected by Blackroc Technology to be used in their rugged handheld GPS computer which comes with a 2MP digital camera.

Developed with enhanced GPS functionality, the camera features a back-up powered sleep mode that is automatically entered whenever the C32M/G is turned off, which allows the GPS to perform a warm boot at the next turn-on, thereby reducing the time-to-first-fix to as low as 10 seconds.The SBAS (Satellite Based Augmentation System) software provides improved accuracy from standard GPS of around 15 meters to between 1-2 meters accuracy.

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