Performance Assessment of Supported GNSS service through a Standalone
Smartphone Device in an Urban Environment
Abstract
Vivo 1606 model is used for the study of standalone use of smartphone as
a positioning device with FM supported location (Assisted- GNSS) for
GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou. The observations were collected at every 5-minute
interval for the analysis. The sessions were divided into three shifts
morning, afternoon, and evening to check the accuracy in real time
static mode. Mobile topographer app was used for capturing WGS-84
geographic coordinates having horizontal and vertical position with time
in an urban environment to analyze which time of a day is good and till
what time one can take GPS reading to get the minimum errors using
smartphone. It is found that the positional dilution of precision (PDOP)
stabilizes in about 35 minutes and minimizes at a value 0.2. The
observations beyond have minor changes, so the position at 35 minutes
has been used as reference for evaluation of statistical parameters. The
real time observations of horizontal, vertical, and positional accuracy
seem to increase with time as the PDOP, HDOP, VDOP values decrease i.e.
improves with time. It has been observed that, RMSE of PDOP is 0.0485
and HDOP is 0.029 during afternoon is higher as compared to morning and
evening values. The study suggest that the preference of survey shall be
in the order: morning, evening and afternoon, which may further depend
on the season at time. The survey during noon in summers can give much
higher values of PDOP and thus the survey can be carried out during
morning and evening times preferably.