Efficient Use of SSR RTCM Streams For Real-Time Precise Point Positioning on Smartphones

Abstract

Since the availability of GNSS raw measurements with Google Nougat API in 2016, research has been assessing smartphone performances and GNSS data’s quality. The objective is to achieve precise positioning and to assess its quality. With the growing Internet of Things (IoT), embedded sensors spread everywhere for acquiring, assessing and monitoring the environment, for which low-cost and precise positioning is essential. Low-cost does not only relate to the financial cost of the GNSS receiver but also to other costs like data consumption, battery consumption and computation cost. Using the Google API and the new generation of smartphones, these costs can be targeted to produce smarter, more efficient, and optimized positioning solutions for being implemented on other IoT devices. This paper presents research on Real-Time Precise Point Positioning (PPP-RTK) application development in Android. Analysis of needed RTCM (Radio Technical Commission for Maritimes Services) streams is given along with the assessment of their benefits for efficient positioning. Focus is made on evaluating the cost of precise products in terms of internet data consumption.