A GPS Information Sharing System Based on Bluetooth Technology

The traditional GPS positioning technology is susceptible to buildings which incur severe signal attenuation and therefore the current actual GPS location information could not be directly obtained for a mobile device in some cases. The Bluetooth technology has attracted widespread attention recently due to its low-cost and strong anti- interference features. In this paper, we combined the Bluetooth wireless transmission and GPS positioning technologies to design and develop a GPS information sharing system, named GISS. The experimental results showed that the system is easy to use and achieves a flexible positioning capability of mobile devices.