ISRO, India’s Government-owned space agency has established strategic partnership with Oppo to build solutions around NavIC services. The proposed partnership will strengthen the research and development of the NavIC messaging service, which is domestic satellite navigation system. Going forward, we can expect new smartphones to come with the next-generation NavIC services.
The partnership enable ISRO and Oppo to exchange technical information of NavIC messaging service to build ready to use end-to-end application specific solution. The NavIC messaging service will be integrated with the mobile handset platform keeping in mind the requirements of users in India. In the past, Xiaomi also established partnership with ISRO to integrate NavIC service. The Lei Jung-owned company had released several new smartphones.
Commenting on the development, Dr K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO appreciated the efforts of OPPO India to integrated NavIC into their innovative R&D initiatives. He urged the product team to include NavIC in all their upcoming products. The arrival of NavIC will boost the smartphone communication to large extent.
NavIC stands for Navigation with Indian Constellation. It’s the regional geo-positioning system designed in India by ISRO to provide accurate positioning in India and around the Indian subcontinent. The technology is regarded as equivalent to the US-based GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and Europe’s Galileo. The space agency is of the opinion that NavIC is more accurate than GPS with position accuracy of 5 metre. Moreover, NavIC is powered by dual frequency, while GPS is dependent only on L band.
