Overview

XYBRID RT™ is a real-time positioning service for devices equipped with any or all of: WiFi, Cellular, or GPS.

XYBRID RT™ responds to mobile devices that make appropriately formatted HTTP position requests to the XYBRID RT™ server.  The server then responds with a Cell-ID/WiFi derived position as well as location-specific Assisted-GPS (and/or Assisted-GLONASS) data.  The user has a useful initial position, while the GPS aiding accelerates GPS signal acquisition and receiver sensitivity in challenging areas like urban canyons.

User location can be consistently determined within 3 to 5 seconds while the solution rapidly converges to GPS-level accuracy. The result: location based applications appear to start immediately.

XYBRID RT™ is part of Rx Networks’ XYBRID™ family of positioning and aiding solutions that combine terrestrial and satellite positioning technologies to deliver extremely fast location determination in all use-cases.

Overcoming GPS Limitations

GPS is the most accurate and pervasive positioning technology available today, but its performance remains limited in dense urban areas or indoors where GPS signals are too weak for full satellite signal acquisition. XYBRID RT™ improves GPS performance through well-known Assisted-GPS techniques, but also incorporates terrestrial positioning sources to ensure a location can be determined when GPS is not available or the signal is still being acquired.

Like all Rx Networks technology, XYBRID RT™ is designed to work with virtually any GPS device as a result of Rx Networks’ close technical relationships with the major GPS chipset vendors.

Hybrid Positioning

The term “hybrid positioning” has been used somewhat inconsistently in the industry.   Some solutions use it to mean that they select between discrete positioning techniques such as GPS, cell tower, or WiFi access point locations.  By contrast, XYBRID RT integrates all of these observations to determine the best position.  Due to Rx Networks deep technical relationships with GPS chipset vendors, XYBRID RT also integrates AGPS at the chipset level.  True hybrid positioning yields the fastest location fixes, GPS fixes where they would otherwise be impossible, and provides a device location in all use cases.

XYBRID RT™ is the new benchmark for hybrid positioning.