What is the difference between GPS and GPRS?

GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is the abbreviation of general packet radio service technology, which is a mobile data service that GSM mobile phone users can use and belongs to the data transmission technology in the second generation mobile communication.

GPS is the abbreviation of English Global Positioning System. Its purpose is to provide real-time, all-weather and global navigation services for land, sea and air, and to be used for some military purposes such as intelligence gathering, nuclear explosion monitoring and emergency communication.

2. Different characteristics

GPRS has the characteristics of high-speed data transmission, always on-line, and only charging according to data flow. At the same time, it can send and receive data in groups, and charge according to the flow. The transmission speed is 56~ 1 15Kbps.

GPS positioning system has the characteristics of good performance, high precision and wide application, and it has three elements: GPS terminal, transmission network and monitoring platform, and can provide functions such as vehicle theft prevention, robbery prevention, driving route monitoring and call command.

3, the scope of application is different

GPRS is applied to mobile office, mobile commerce, mobile information service, mobile Internet, multimedia service, etc.

GPS is applied to navigation, positioning and measurement of road engineering, patrol, car navigation and traffic management. Due to the continuous improvement of the hardware and software of GPS, the application fields are constantly developing, which have spread all over the various departments of the national economy and gradually penetrated into people's daily lives.

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