Cell Tower
Cell tower triangulation provides a good coverage fallback working in most consumer conditions. However, the accuracy of location estimate range from 200m to 1000m. For many location-based services this level of resolution is insufficient.
Consumers demand a location technology that is accurate in all environments. These expectations are clearly not met by cellular tower triangulation.
XPS 2.0 and Cell Tower
The Cell Tower component of XPS is expanding rapidly, covering most of the United States, Canada and Europe.
- Cell Tower triangulation increases coverage of XPS, and also significantly improves GPS satellite acquisition time.
- Cell Tower triangulation can also improves power utilization by helping XPS intelligently enable/disable communication radios depending on the location accuracy required.