An Explanation to GPS Navigation Receiver

The popularity of GPS Navigation Receiver is getting higher as the rising number of vehicle ownership. Many people use it as the complementary device for their vehicle due to its usefulness. And with this high popularity of this device, manufacturers start to manufacture it in various versions with different features each. Therefore, whenever you’ll buy this device, there will be so many choices offered in the market.

With all of those choices, it is important for you to know at least the general information about GPS Navigation Receiver.

Because by knowing this understanding, you will be able to decide which product is best for you and which one can meets your needs perfectly. Therefore, you can find the best product for your own.

But, if you don’t know what is this device is, you’ve come to the right place. Here, we are going to discuss about what GPS Navigation Receiver actually is.

The detail of this device such as description, history, and brands will be discuss briefly to make it easy to understood. So, if you still want to know about it, below is the brief explanation of it.

What is GPS Navigation Receiver

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What is GPS Navigation Receiver actually is?

GPS Navigation Receiver is a device that is able to inform your location based on the accurate geographical calculation that is sent by satellite. Simply, this is an L-band kind of radio processor that is able to solve navigation equation to determine position, precise time and velocity.

In the past, this technology is only used by US military. US Department of Defense was the one who launched the GPS Navigation Receiver satellite into the orbit for the military purposes. But, in 1980, the government allowed the use of this GPS program for the citizens. That’s why nowadays people can access it through several media such as computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.

Further, with this device, you will be able to get several things as followed.

Firstly, you will get high accurate of mapping. Since the data is taken from satellite, so the accuracy of GPS map can be trusted. Moreover, you’re not only provided with conventional map. Here you have streets map and 3D map which is displayed in such a nice user interface.

Second, it will be easier for you to get direction from one place to another. Plus, you will get the traffic information along that direction. And more interestingly, some information about nearby place such as restaurant, gas station, bank, tourist spot, and others are provided specially for you.

Need Get SDPPI Type Approval before Marketed in Indonesia

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As we know, it is mandatory for all devices that employ radio and electromagnetic frequency to obtain SDPPI Type Approval certification before they are marketed in Indonesia.

Therefore, as a device that uses radio frequency to work, GPS Navigation Receiver obviously needs to get this kind of certification before distributed to Indonesian market. This policy is based on Indonesian regulation No. 16 Tahun 2018 about telecommunication devices certification.

And for you who are about to buy GPS Navigation receiver, there will be several brands that are offered in the market. But, not all of them bring qualified specification. Therefore, we give you a list of some superior GPS Navigation brands that are superior in its class. They are Garmin Nuvi, Magellan, TomTom, and Go.

Finally, we can say that the list above is not something absolute. I mean, some other brands could just have same or even better specification than them. So, if you have any idea about what brand is it, your opinion is welcome in the comment session below.

In closing, we hope this article can be useful in helping you understanding what GPS Navigation Receiver actually is. Further, we also hope that you can decide which GPS brand is superior than other. Thank you.

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