Smartwatches with GPS

Nowadays, a lot of smartwatches and fitness trackers feature built-in GPS. Over the past few years, smartwatches with GPS have developed quickly and they gained more and more features and gotten smarter. They are a crucial component in fitness tracking. Thanks to tracking position and pace in real-time, keeping fit and managing a busy lifestyle will be simple. Smartwatches with GPS provide you with accurate information on how your exercises go.

If you are looking for smartwatches with GPS, here, at Smartwatch For Less you have a lot of alternatives to choose from.

In this post you will learn:

• what is GPS
• how GPS works in smartwatches
• list of our smartwatches with GPS.

What is GPS

The Global Positioning System or just GPS is a global navigation satellite system that provides location, velocity and time synchronization. GPS is everywhere. You can find GPS systems in your car, your smartphone and your watch. GPS helps you get where you are going, from point A to point B.

GPS is considered to be a powerful tool for businesses and organizations in many different industries. A lot of people use GPS on a daily basis for work, as scientists, pilots, boat captains and many others. They use GPS information for preparing accurate surveys and maps, taking precise time measurements, tracking position or location, and navigation. GPS works at all times and in almost all weather conditions.

There are five main uses of GPS:

1. Location — Determining a position.
2. Navigation — Getting from one location to another.
3. Tracking — Monitoring objects or personal movement.
4. Mapping — Creating maps of the world.
5. Timing — Making it possible to take precise time measurements.

How GPS works in smartwatches

Smartwatches with built-in GPS receivers can use GPS for locating and tracking your location. The GPS can help enhance safety and fitness features on the smartwatch. How? In case of emergency, it can alert the authorities about your location or when you do running, cycling or other outdoor activities it helps track your route duration and distance.

GPS is not just a regular feature on a smartwatch. It involves a lot of technicalities. Let’s see how the GPS works on a smartwatch and other mobile devices. For starters, the GPS uses satellites from orbit approximately 12,000 miles above the earth’s surface. Each satellite moves around the earth twice a day in a preset path and sends microwave signals to the GPS receivers present in your smartwatch. The smartwatch captures the signal data and uses the triangulation method. Triangulation is a way to determine the difference between the time that your running watch receives a GPS signal and the time that the GPS signal was sent to your running watch.

The GPS can work also offline without the internet or connectivity with your phone. The smartwatch GPS receiver takes signals directly from the satellite to check your location, which helps map your routes, location and altitude.

Did you know GPS is not the only navigation system which is used in smartwatches and mobile phones? There is also GLONASS, which uses 24 Russian Aerospace Defence Forces satellites to track location. Some smartwatches use both of these navigation systems to help increase the accuracy of your location tracking. It also helps to speed up the signal-sending, receiving, and the distance-measuring process by up to 20 per cent.

Smartwatches with GPS at Smartwatch For Less