Location

Qualcomm® IZat™: It’s where location is at.

Whether you’re navigating the streets, meeting friends at a restaurant, calling for help, or shopping for the perfect gift, knowing your exact location can make a big difference. For more than a decade, Qualcomm’s mobile solutions have included cutting-edge location features – providing navigation and E-911 capabilities for over a billion mobile devices and hundreds of operator networks.

Today, Qualcomm offers a complete portfolio of IZat technologies and solutions that provide ubiquitous location capabilities. The IZat location platform transforms the way we think about “where” beyond a navigational fix. With accurate information about “who” and “what” is around you, IZat provides much-needed context to make life more simple and convenient – indoors, outdoors, wherever you are.

As a result, people can take advantage of location-based services to:

  • Discover local points of interest (restaurants, stores, gas stations, etc.)
  • Find their way while driving, or while walking through airports, shopping centers, museums, etc.
  • Save money at nearby businesses
  • Connect with friends and family
  • Track their things and pets
  • Engage in mobile blogging, gaming and geo-tagging

As more consumers and businesses rely upon these useful applications, IZat location solutions help Qualcomm’s customers meet their increasingly demanding requirements.

The Qualcomm IZat location portfolio includes solutions for both mobile devices and network infrastructure. This end-to-end platform uses the most advanced positioning techniques and combines data from multiple sources to maintain continuous location awareness with unmatched accuracy and power efficiency. Mobile device OEMs, operators, networking vendors and application developers can take advantage of Qualcomm’s broad location portfolio to enhance the mobile experience and support the growing number of location-based services.