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YUMA: Software and Service for Capture & Process |
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Product Description:
Intended for photo-geotagging cameras and camera accessories, YUMA is based on Capture & Process, u-blox' patented software GPS technology that solves the 2 main problems faced by real-time GPS: it's fast, position capture in 0.2 seconds, and extremely low-power allowing weeks or months of camera battery life.
Capture & Process achieves these results in two-steps:
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Capture raw GPS signal data immediately, for example with u-blox' UBX-G0011 RF Front-end IC
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Process it for a position fix at a convenient later time
(on a PC or Mac)
YUMA is the software and service component of u-blox' Capture & Process technology which enables this performance. A YUMA-enabled camera incorporates a u-blox GPS receiver and uses this to take a number of raw GPS data captures, each only a fraction of a second long. Later, the stored captures are passed to the YUMA Software GPS Engine which processes them to obtain position fixes. The process is enabled by accessing additional satellite ephemeris data supplied over the Internet by the YUMA Historic Assistance Service provided by u-blox. YUMA is particularly useful for camera equipment where instantaneous photo geotagging capability with low power consumption is critical. |
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Key Features
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YUMA Software GPS Engine converts raw GPS data captures into position fixes
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Optimized multi-core software calculates a fix in a fraction of a second and is available for PC and Mac
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Satellite ephemeris data is provided by u-blox’ YUMA Historic Assistance Service, which is highly reliable and accessible worldwide via the Internet
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YUMA Software Development Kit (SDK) is available with a simple API to allow customers to integrate the YUMA functionality into their own applicaton software
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Optionally, the YUMA Reverse Geocoding Service is available for converting a position fix into a street/town/country as well as nearby Points of Interest (POIs) |
YUMA Applications
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YUMA Historic Assistance Service
u-blox’ online YUMA Historic Assistance Service provides satellite ephemeris data for any time after August 2007. The service provides an historical record of GPS satellite locations to support accelerated assisted-GPS positioning.
u-blox provides an optional YUMA Reverse Geocoding Service that translates position fixes (latitude/longitude coordinates) into more recognizable, street, town, region and country names. The highly-reliable service is available from u-blox worldwide via the internet.
Support Products
u-blox provides support products to allow evaluation of YUMA as well as development of 3rd party YUMA-based application software. Additional support products are available to help the design and manufacture of YUMA-enabled devices.
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EVK-CK – YUMA Evaluation Kit
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YUMA-SDK – YUMA Software Development Kit
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YUMA-MSK – YUMA Manufacturing Support Kit |
Supported Platforms
The YUMA software and SDK are available for Microsoft
Windows XP 32bit (SP2), Vista 32/64 bit (SP1) and
Mac OS-X (Intel).
Windows 7 support is in preparation.
Snappr Technical Evaluation Application for YUMA
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Performance data
The following data is based on the YUMA software GPS positioning engine processing 172 ms of 1-bit GPS data captured from a GPS RF frontend running at a rate of 6 MHz.
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Positioning accuracy: 4.3 meters
(50% CEP with all SV @ -130 dBm)
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Time to calculate fix: 0.4 seconds (Running on a 1.866GHz Core 2 Duo with Windows XP 32 bit)
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Sensitivity:
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Server availability: Ephemeris data, 99.9% |
Support documents
Download our Capture & Process whitepaper to learn more
about our instantaneous photo geotagging technology
which makes use of YUMA software and service:
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| For more details about our licensing u-blox' YUMA software and service, click here to find the u-blox sales representative nearest you. |
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