Location and Positioning Technical Training
This half-day course provides an introduction to different location and positioning technologies and techniques. Key location technologies covered in the training include GNSS, as well as cellular based positioning using techniques like multilateration and multiangulation.
Why Take This Course?
- Enhance your industry knowledge and skills by gaining a greater understanding of Location and Positioning.
- Train with engineers at Qualcomm Technologies – a world leader in 5G technology and wireless engineering.
- Learn online and at your own pace with our flexible eLearning format. Or, set up a live training session for groups of at least 15 people.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to location and positioning.
- Overview of several location and positioning technologies.
- Study typical use cases, including positioning techniques specified by 3GPP, with a focus on positioning techniques in LTE and 5G.
- Review location technologies in the standards.
- Discuss Qualcomm’s location and positioning solutions.
Prerequisites:
- This is an introductory course. You should take this course if you are at least one of the following:
- A business professional looking to learn more about location and positioning
- A technical manager
- An engineer looking for an introduction to various location technologies
- This course is part of our corporate program, so your company will need to sign an NDA to access it.
Objectives:
- Understand the need for location technologies.
- Discuss different location determination techniques.
- Location techniques in 3GPP.
- Various Qualcomm positioning solutions.
- How position is obtained from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).
- Various techniques to improve GNSS performance.
- Different techniques specified by cellular standards to determine device position.
- How Wi-Fi, BT, and UltraWideband (UWB) can be used to determine device location.
- The evolution of different location technologies used in cellular standards.
- Various position determination techniques and protocols standardized in LTE and 5G.
- Planned evolution of location determination techniques in 5G.
- Positioning techniques for IoT.
- GNSS features and its enhancement solutions on Qualcomm’s chipsets.
- Qualcomm’s terrestrial positioning feature.
- 3GPP feature and emergency positioning support status on Qualcomm’s chipsets.