{"id":8906,"date":"2012-12-25T21:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T03:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2012-12-25T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T03:03:50","slug":"a-microsoft-research-project-offloads-gps-data-and-calculations-to-the-cloud-to-save-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8906","title":{"rendered":"A Microsoft Research Project Offloads GPS Data and Calculations to the Cloud to Save Battery Life."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The biggest power hog inside a smartphone is the GPS chip. This component can take 30 seconds just to acquire the satellite data necessary to get the information it needs for an initial location fix; it then has to churn through the downloaded codes to calculate its location precisely.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft researchers reduced that power consumption dramatically by offloading some of the work to the cloud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/509176\/cloud-powered-gps-chip-slashes-smartphone-power-consumption\/\">A Microsoft Research Project Offloads GPS Data and Calculations to the Cloud to Save Battery Life. | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest power hog inside a smartphone is the GPS chip. This component can take 30 seconds just to acquire the satellite data necessary to get the information it needs for an initial location fix; it then has to churn &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8906\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[790,67,900,50],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpe","tag-batteries","tag-cloud-computing","tag-gps","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}