What is the difference between gps and gprs?

The difference between gps and gprs is as follows:

1, the definition is different:

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

GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is the abbreviation of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), which is a mobile data service available to GSM cell phone users, belonging to the second generation of mobile communications in the data transmission technology.

The GPRS can be said to be the continuation of GSM.

2, different application scenarios:

GPRS is used in mobile office, mobile business, mobile information services, mobile Internet, multimedia services, and other scopes.

GPS is used in road engineering, patrol, car navigation and traffic management navigation, positioning, measurement and other ranges.

3, the technical characteristics of different:

GPRS has a high-speed data transmission, always online, only according to the data flow billing characteristics at the same time the data to achieve group sending and receiving, billing by flow, 56 ~ 115Kbps transmission speed.

GPS positioning system has good performance, high precision, wide application characteristics, with GPS terminal, transmission network and monitoring platform three elements, can provide vehicle anti-theft, anti-hijacking, driving route monitoring and call command and other functions.

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