GPS Technology Reaches New Heights

GPS Technology Reaches New Heights

GPS Technology Reaches New Heights

Global positioning satellites have gone universal, and not just in the numbers sense. Foursquare, the GPS enabled application touted as a sort of Twitter 2.0, settled on new terrain on Friday when NASA astronaut, Douglas H. Wheelock used it to check- in to space. The gesture, which establishes Wheelock as the first person to use a location based service from space, appears emblematic of the direction that GPS technology is headed: everywhere.

Foursquare, which employs GPS technology in order to most efficiently allow its 4 million-plus users to "check-in" to their current location, is just one of a number of companies expanding the application of GPS technology.

In the past decade, GPS has undergone a massive transformation. Gaining prominence as a pricey navigation system, available almost exclusively in luxury vehicles, GPS technology has shifted into an entity more affordable, flexible and certainly more universal than its beginnings. Handheld units like the TomTom and its competitors helped lower costs and expand on technology to make GPS as mobile and dynamic as the person using it. The appeal of GPS enabled devices is widening alongside their user base which, in units, is expected to reach 550 million by 2011.

Evidence of this is visible in the popularity of GPS applications on PDAs like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.

"When people carry around a device wherever they go, it's not just a phone but a set of connections to their online identity, friends and networks and the content they care about and where they are as well," said Mark Donovan, a mobile-industry analyst for market tracker.

The latter is of primary concern to Personal Location Services company, GTX Corp (GTXO), which has recently launched three new apps aimed at further expanding the role GPS plays day to day. GTXO concentrates not just on the human interactive potential of GPS but on its problem solving potential in industries like shipping and health care.

While not quite to the moon, GTXO has traveled far outside the stratosphere in which GPS first existed, most notably into the shoes of patients afflicted with Alzheimer's and into time sensitive packages managed by shipping companies. These practical applications, made possible through GTXOs unique miniaturized modules, have the capacity to eliminate hazards once considered implicit to the respective condition and service.

Similar to NASA's Wheelock, companies like Foursquare and GTXO are exploring uncharted terrain. Staying true to the nature of the technology, they're charting them, changing the landscape as they go.

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