GSM localizer without GPS
10 or more 79.20€
50 or more 70.40€
100 or more 66.00€
Do you still think you need GPS to know where a person or vehicle is? Well, here is some news for you: by using cellular network data and properly querying Google, even a simple GSM module is able to determine one’s position, with a fairly acceptable error margin.
The radio mobile network is made up of a number of adjacent radio cells, each of which is characterized by an identifier consisting of four data: a progressive number (Cell ID), a code related to the area in which that given cell is (LAC, or Local Area Code), the code of national network to which the cell belongs (MCC, an acronym for Mobile Country Code), and finally the company code (MNC, or Mobile Network Code), which obviously identifies the phone company itself. For this reason, once a cell name and coordinates are known, and considering the maximum distance allowed between this cell and a phone before the phone connects to a new cell, it is possible to find out, approximately, the most distant position of the phone itself.
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