A chip this size…
Went from requiring a 900MHz triangulation to being a full blown GPS?
Far fetched???
Not so much…
DARPA is trying to develop a Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems MEMS unit that will do just that in a form factor that looks something like this (but may be smaller), called C-SCAN or Chip-Scale Conbinatorial Atomic Navigator.
This is actually a working Debiotech insulin nanopump, by the way…
Translated into plain English, what C-SCAN aims to accomplish is to create a chip that performs the functions today served by orbiting GPS satellites. The chip would constantly “know” where it is in space-time, and would have this knowledge without having to ping a satellite (and maintain line-of-sight communication with a satellite) to do it.
Full article HERE.
Now the S5 chip pictured at the start is $2 today, with the logic/battery about $7 and it will last 4 years on a single battery…
GPS chips in your phones cost somewhere around $3-12 depending on accuracy…
We’re chipping pets today, what happens if these chips become reality? Well for one, your nav will never get lost if it can’t find satellites, it would work inside buildings, underground or anywhere…
Soooo…
Let’s say you get lost or kidnapped, your ‘device’ could be pinged from anywhere and would give an ‘exact’ location within X feet… Good, right???
What if you wanted to be off the grid? Not so good…
What if these were included in clothes, or shoes, or belts, or guns???
Just asking…
