NextNav and Broadcom Partner for Indoor Accuracy

摘要

Broadcom Corporation has acquired a commercial license to NextNav's Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) technology, a so-called terrestrial constellation bringing GNSS-like performance to indoor and urban environments where satellite-based positioning is either unavailable or significantly degraded.NextNav president and founder Ganesh Pattabiraman characterized the deal as "commercial license to a Tier 1 chipset provider, whose products are in a vast number of smart and feature phones in the country.The partnership enables our technology in a low-cost, high-volume form factor.This is important for us since we don't make chips. We rely on partners such as Broadcom. This is the first of many such agreements; we'll have more through the year."