CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) announced it has begun a trial of Antenova’s steerable directional antenna to test its capability of improving the accuracy, while reducing the cost of deploying CPS’ Cursor mobile location technology.
The companies expect the new directional antennas to minimize effects of multi-path propagation and co-channel interference, thus reducing the number of fewer base stations requiring location monitoring equipment, and so cutting time and costs of rollout.
‘The results of this trial could signal substantial reductions in cost and time to market for implementing mobile location technology,” said Peter Duffett-Smith, chief technical officer of CPS. “Moreover, by exploiting their directionality in spatial multiplexing, Antenova’s smart antennas have great potential for improving the efficiency of mobile networks.”
