Let’s see a New & Cool Mikroelektronika’s mikroBUS™ Hardware Member – GPS Click PCB Module.

   To Do this task, we need some external help. These are the satellites. We need many of them.

  Total count of satellites is minimum 24, available now in 6 different orbits. Their count is calculated and it is enough to cover all useful area of the earth, providing the minimal set of satellites in orbit, named: the “geostationary” orbit, blasting with an amazing 7000mi/h or 11265 km per hour.

  The speed is exactly the necessary speed to avoid the earth gravity, using the principle of the center moving forces.

  Both all satellites are synchronized and are pico-seconds equal with their own atomic watches. In every second the satellites transceivers are transmitting a 50-Watt RF signal broadcast. The data transmitted, consists a valuable information: Identification of the Satelite, nanosecond precissionTime stamp marker, Status information date, UTC – Coordinated Universal Time, and current Satelite position data – where the satellite should be at the transmission time.

  Your GPS module microcontroller is synchronizing its middle precision with the atomic highest precision clock. Receiving the time of next satellite transmission, compared with the moment of it’s receiving, the GPS Module software extracts the delay of the received signal.

  Using the light propagation speed, and adding some atmospheric distortion parameters, the intelligent GPS MCU API system with ease calculates, using the currently received data, the distance between the satellite S1 for example to us, our vehicle or our plane.

  But, the distance to one satellite creates a sphere without enough information about exact coordinates of the object. we need a total of minimum 3 satellites to get the true triangulation giving the latitude and longitude, and if we need and the altitude, the count of minimum visible satellites at everyone tracking moment is 4. The practice is pointing many more than 4 available satellites.

  Now we can overlap the four virtual distance spheres – from S1..S4 satellites. The zone of overlapping the distance spheres is getting to us within a +/- 5-meter precision, our GPS coordinates. If we are moving, we collect two different pairs of coordinates, and for an etalon part of the time, with simple math calculations, we also have our speed. Now You

  Now You are understanding the GPS method of work.

   These sentences have specific information related to a preferred form of location information.

  In fact, if your GPS module is an NMEA 2.0 compatible,  then you will have a reach support and selection of the most common used sentences.

   The uBlox LEA-6S (LEA-6S:  u-blox 6 GPS module ROM, TXCO)  has a high-performance positioning engine with the following features:

• Navigate:
  • Until it’s tracking:  – 162 dBm ;
  • Reacquisition:  – 160 dBm ;
  • Cold start:  – 148 dBm .
• Faster acquisition: using the AssistNow Autonomous mode,

   The Different power modes are often used to control and balancing the GPS-based system – the acquisition and normal receiver tracking can be balanced by USER to became the balance between power consumption and system performance.

• User Adjustable Power Management – Power Modes:
  • ECO Mode – Note: During a Cold start, a receiver in Eco Mode works as in Maximum Performance Mode.
  • Power-save Mode – PSM allows a system power reduction by enabling or disabling the different parts of the receiver.
  • Maximum Performance Mode.
• GPS/SBAS – Hybrid Engine { MSAS, EGNOS, WAAS },
• GPS Module uses the Anti-Jamming Technology,
• GPS click is designed to use a 3.3V power supply only.
• GPS click supports both active and passive antennas.