Garmin Nuvi GPS Mount

Today, GPS is more commonly known by the vehicle navigation solutions. However, the GPS system to many other useful purposes can be used. For example, many solutions for computer network time synchronization, as the NTP time server, use the atomic clocks aboard the GPS satellites for accurate synchronization. The GPS system can be used as an accurate reference clock for synchronizing time-critical applications on computers and networks. This article describes howComputer systems can use the GPS time and discussed what equipment is needed to represent a precision time reference.

The GPS system is a U.S. military intended for worldwide navigation. GPS is a space system consisting of a network of 24 satellites in orbit. Precise navigation and positioning is accomplished using precision timing signals and triangulation from several satellites. To provide a precise time, eachSatellite has an integrated high-precision clock onboard atomic. Each satellite broadcasts time information within a few nanoseconds to deliver timely positional accuracy of better than 10m. The exact date will the information be for the NTP servers and other computer timing devices as a very precise time reference used. The great thing about GPS is that it works anywhere in the world and is completely free to air service.  Read more...