Keeping connected anywhere in the world
Many outdoor sports enthusiasts or workers who need to work in the field must have experienced this: traditional mobile maps are unavailable in the wild because of the loss of mobile phone signals, let alone Get in touch with your peers. When working, I can’t see the track of my teammates, I can’t distinguish the direction and route, and use tools such as walkie-talkie to communicate, but I can’t say the direction clearly. In an emergency situation, because the mobile phone has no signal, it is impossible to send a distress signal and location information to the companion.
I recently came into contact with a GPS positioning system tool provider, “goTele”, and introduced corresponding software and hardware solutions for the above-mentioned outdoor sports and field operations. The company was founded in 2018 and launched a software product GPS toolbox and hardware product GPS off-grid tracker based on the core technology of a decentralized ad hoc network.
Individually, GPS toolbox is a multi-functional location service tool software based on mobile phone GPS, which includes functions such as compass, GPS speed measurement, marker location, line tracking, area measurement, electromagnetic radiation detection and so on. “This software has never been marketed. According to our user survey, more than half of users started using it because of friends’ recommendations, and 37% used discovery and discovery.” Ge Xiaobin, the founder of Xiaolang Technology Innovation, said, “Tools About 70% of box users are industry users, distributed in the fields of communications, water conservancy agriculture, transportation highways, energy pipeline engineering, etc. The toolbox is mainly used for the business on the side of the measuring point and line, and has a good reputation in the engineering field. “Currently The software is only available for Android. The iOS version is under development, with nearly 8 million users and 600,000 monthly live users.
GPS toolbox interface
The GPS off-grid tracker for hardware products can realize location sharing, situational awareness, mutual text messages between teams, and SOS alarm function in the outdoor off-grid state. The reason why these functions can be achieved is mainly based on the advanced centerless ad hoc network technology based on the innovation of Xiaolang Technology. This technology is to turn each device into a signal that can both receive and transmit signals. A small base station and a closed local area network composed of a communication protocol with independent intellectual property rights created by Coyote Technology Innovation. As long as the devices connected to the network can share locations, record trajectories, and communicate with each other in real time, even one or more of themIf a failure occurs, it will not affect the operation of the entire network. This small-scale local area network covers an area of less than 5 kilometers and can meet the needs of most outdoor scenarios.
Simple understanding, this product is a handheld GPS with networking function. Xiaolang Technology has innovated its own control system and communication protocol, and can control the price at the consumer level. At present, the first-generation products have been mass-produced, and 10,000-level sales have been established in more than a dozen countries and regions in North America and Europe. The second-generation products are being developed and will be put into mass production. “In the field of handheld GPS, there are already mature suppliers like Jiaming, but their products do not have networking capabilities.” Ge Xiaobin said, “ Our technology allows GPS related products, such as GPS mobile phones, GPS interphones, GPS tracking. Devices, etc. can achieve interconnectivity. In the future, we will continue to enrich our hardware product lines, form a series of product matrices, and form scale advantages. . “
GPS hardware products (left: first generation off-grid tracker; right: second generation product gotele xquad series)
In terms of business model, the Coyote Technology Innovation Plan is mainly profitable through hardware sales and software realization. At present, Xiaolang Technology Innovation has opened up overseas sales channels such as Amazon. It is further opening up software and hardware, and using software traffic to drive hardware sales.
Mentioning the future, Xiaolang Technology Innovation is accelerating the development of the iOS and international versions of the GPS toolbox, and gradually exploring commercialization channels such as cloud services and enterprise versions. At the same time, it plans to open the SDK of hardware products and directly connect its data with various outdoor map-type mobile applications to accurately cover more community users and industry users.
At present, leading companies such as Garmin have appeared in the GPS terminal market, and its annual report shows that in 2019. The company’s operating income was US $ 3.758 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.25%; net profit was US $ 952 million, a year-on-year increase of 37.23%. And start-up companies such as “GoTenna”, whose main product is advanced outdoor walkie-talkies, which won US $ 7.5 million in Series B financing from institutions such as Walden International in 2017, 2019