---
title: "‘Centimetre accurate’ GPS system to be integrated into phones"
description: "Researchers at University of Texas created the system, which will be able to provide centimetre-accurate GPS locations on mobile phones, tablets and other mass market devices."
date: "2015-05-05"
modified: "2015-05-05"
authors:
  - name: "Kevin Woods"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kwoods"
url: "https://futurism.com/centimetre-accurate-gps-system-to-be-integrated-into-phones"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
---

# ‘Centimetre accurate’ GPS system to be integrated into phones

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- As well as being embedded in mobile phones, potential applications range from self-driving cars to virtual reality. The system, which allows cheap antennas to access location data, may also be used in delivery drones to help them drop-off parcels at an exact location.
- The researchers are developing a “snap-on accessory that will tell smartphones, tablets and virtual reality headsets their precise position and orientation,” according to the university.
- The receiver, called GRID, was developed over a six-year period. At present, GRID works outside the phone but they hope it will someday be able to run on a phone’s internal processor. To enable further developments to their work, the researchers have created a startup called Radiosense.