A new GPS that doesn't use satellites to relay signals

It's a world-first technology developed in Canberra, tested at Cooma and set to rewrite the rules for a global geographic positioning systems industry worth $200 billion a year.

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Locata Corporation, a start-up founded by former garage-band musicians David Small and Nunzio Gambale, has invented the seemingly impossible, a GPS that doesn't use satellites to relay signals. Instead, it uses a network of small, ground-based transmitters that use wi-fi to send location positioning signals more than a million times stronger than GPS.

Mr Gambale describes it as the difference between switching on a small torch and a powerful searchlight.

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A new GPS that doesn't use satellites to relay signals

A new GPS that doesn't use satellites to relay signals

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