CUPERTINO, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fourth China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) was successfully convened between May 15 and May 17 in Wuhan, China. "Beidou Tech Week" was held in conjunction with the conference and included lectures, exhibitions and face-to-face communication among industry leaders and visitors alike. This year's conference attracted many visitors and promoted the theme of "Beidou Applications -- Opportunities and Challenges". The wide application of the Beidou Satellite Navigation System and other location-based services in various industries once again grabbed the public's attention.
The satellite application industry is both an important guarantee for safeguarding China's national security and also a reflection of the country's competitive strength. Beidou Satellite Navigation System has been included in national strategy lists and is the core driving force behind the development of China's satellite application industry. For years, Beidou has strived to establish a highly advanced national satellite-navigation application industry to support their construction goals. Under these circumstances, Borqs has leveraged its own strengths to create the Beidou Complete Solution providing complete coverage for all terminals and applications. The Beidou Complete Solution is suitable for a variety of terminal equipment, including smart mobile terminals, tablet computers, vehicle mounted systems and IOT terminals. It covers GPS, Beidou Generation 1/Generation 2, WCDMA/TD-SCAMA/LTE and various other standards. In terms of positioning and navigation, the solution enables seamless switching between GPS and Beidou systems to provide the best possible signal strength and precision. In northwest Sichuan and other mountainous areas, the solution plays an important role in a wide range of applications, including signal coverage, emergency warnings, traffic management, meteorological applications and precision farming.
During the past decade, although the global positioning system has been widely used in emergency warnings and natural disaster rescue efforts, more precise rescue technology has been demanded due to the complexity and high frequency of natural disasters. Whenever a natural disaster has occurred in China in recent years, the secondary hazards triggered by communication disruptions have been thrust into the national media spotlight. Disrupted communications can become a great hindrance to rescue efforts. The Beidou Emergency Warning Solution through Beidou's smart terminal is one of the most important parts of Beidou's Complete Solution and is precisely built in response to the aforementioned disaster prevention requirements. The biggest disadvantage of GPS, its inability to transmit location data, has been resolved by Beidou systems through leveraging a distinctive short messaging function. Users can communicate with other Beidou terminals and even ordinary cell phones without the need for a base signal by using Beidou's short messaging function.
The smart terminal, loaded with Beidou's Generation 1 functions, has already demonstrated tremendous market potential. In the future, it will be widely used in sailing, oil field exploration and other field work as well as during outdoor activities including mountaineering, camping and other expeditions.
The use of satellite navigation in traffic management is an equally important development. According to a report published by the foreign automobile consulting firm IHSautomotive, by the end of 2012 total worldwide automobile output of cars and light trucks will exceed 80 million vehicles. The need for environmentally efficient travel, passenger security, and vehicle monitoring and control will become more important than ever.
Beidou's Vehicle-Mounted Solution, which relies on positioning and smart vehicle dispatching systems, is an intelligent vehicle scheduling system that provides passengers with new services such as electronic tolling, real-time traffic updates, emergency rescue, route guidance, vehicle dispatching management, advanced automatic driving assistance and vehicle condition monitoring. The system can meet the monitoring and dispatching demands for staff and vehicles which have it equipped while simultaneously meeting demands for emergency response.
The Beidou Vehicle-Mounted System solution greatly improves the efficiency of road traffic management, including sending alerts to monitoring centers when a target vehicle deviates from its preset route and monitoring and sending a target's location to monitoring centers. The monitoring center can also use Beidou's positioning system to transmit tasks and assignments to staff members and vehicles as well as establish communications under emergency conditions.
About Borqs
Borqs Microsystems Hong Kong Co. LTD is Borqs International Holding Corp owned company. Borqs International Holding Corp established in September 2007, is a technology company dedicated to providing customizable, integrated Android software platform solutions and end-to-end service platform solutions for mobile operators, terminal OEMs, and chip manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in Beijing, Borqs also has offices and research and development facilities in Cupertino, Bangalore, Wuhan and Shenzhen. Primary investors in Borqs are Keytone Ventures, GSR Ventures, Tsinghua Venture Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Intel Capital Corporation. Borqs is now an active member of Google/OHA (the Open Handset Alliance) and the TD Industry Alliance.
Under the auspices of the leading venture capital and world-class strategic partners, Borqs meets customers' needs for mobile internet software platforms and services all over the world through technology innovation, product development and complete system customization. Rapid growth in operations and improvement of brand quality has made Borqs the number 9 fastest growing tech firm in China and the number 39 fastest-growing tech firm in the Asia-Pacific region according to the "2011 Deloitte High-Tech High Growth Asia-Pacific Top 500 " Awards.
