Qualcomm Terrestrial Positioning Service (TPS)
Qualcomm Terrestrial Positioning Service (TPS)
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An accurate and precise geolocation service for a wide range of industrial use cases in any signal environment.

Qualcomm® Terrestrial Positioning Service (TPS) provides geolocation and wayfinding capabilities for mobile and industrial devices such as asset trackers, handheld devices, payment terminals, and more based on their proximity to nearby Wi-Fi, cellular, and other terrestrial beacon installations such as Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE).

The service takes a hybrid approach to positioning. Using Wi-Fi and cellular signals, either alongside or independent of available GPS information, it can provide a position estimate even in challengin...

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Benefits
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Accurate & Precise Location Virtually Anywhere

By using a vast global network of Wi-Fi access points, cells, and terrestrial beacons, Qualcomm TPS delivers accuracy and precision even in challenging signal environments.

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Flexible Integration Options

With a series of software packages, APIs, and more, Qualcomm TPS can integrate with hardware, applications, platforms, and more at any layer of the tech stack.

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Battery-Efficient Approach

Intelligent algorithms work behind the scenes so Qualcomm TPS can provide always-on and intermittent location depending on the use case, directly through the cloud.

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Offline Location Capability

Using a suite of tokening and caching techniques, Qualcomm TPS can resolve location for devices even when they’re offline.

Featured Solutions

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Indoor Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) for Customer Venues

Real-time indoor positioning for tracking assets, improving delivery accuracy, and boosting operational efficiency—without relying on GPS.

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Global Terrestrial Location Service

Hybrid geolocation technology that ensures precise positioning in GPS-challenged environments—keeping assets visible and operations on track.

Global Device Observability

The Qualcomm TPS Observability Service provides a secure, enterprise‑grade software layer for monitoring and managing Android and Linux devices. By integrating the Qualcomm TPS SDK, this observability service periodically collects a broad set of non-personally identifiable device metrics—covering performance, health, and operational behavior—across diverse chipsets and operating systems.

This unified data stream gives developers and enterprises a detailed, real‑time view of device activity, enabling faster issue detection, troubleshooting, and system optimization. The documentation below explains how these observability metrics are gathered, logged, and made available for analysis.

Features

  • Accurate and precise location in any signal environment
  • Timing-based Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) positioning technology that provides enhanced  precision indoors after conducting a site survey
  • Intelligent signal switching and hybridization to provide the best results possible
  • Power-optimized performance to promote extended device life
  • Flexible integration options including SDKs and APIs
  • Ability to add and tune specific access points and cells via cloud APIs
  • Helps meet E911 and AML location requirements
  • Streamlined location resolution through the cloud
  • Positioning capabilities indoors and while devices are offline
  • Large global database for geolocation anywhere in the world
  • Convert location coordinates into addresses using reverse geocoding
  • Easy to deploy solution that uses existing network infrastructure to resolve location
  • Positioning results that show location coordinates and global region for time zone determination

Global Wi-Fi Coverage

  • Billions of geolocated Wi-Fi access points globally
  • Coverage shown by access point density
  • Density measured by the quantity of access points per 1,000 people in each country
  • The darker the color, the higher the coverage density (as shown by key above)

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