Google Maps: what is the satellite connection, this functionality which allows you to share your location without a network ?

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Google will soon integrate satellite connectivity into its mapping app, allowing users to share their location without a network.

In the next version of Google's mobile operating system, under Android 15, satellite connection could be integrated into Google Maps. Available on Apple smartphones since the iPhone 14 Pro, it allows their owners to send emergency messages when there is no mobile network nearby, reports BFMTV.

What is the satellite connection ?

According to Globaltel, access providers à Satellite internet does not run cables or wires to the user's home. Instead, they use transmitters and receivers to bounce signals off satellites orbiting Earth. The small satellite dish that ISPs use Satellite Internet installed in a customer’s home contains the transmitter and receiver.

A satellite Internet connection is an arrangement in which both upstream (outgoing) and downstream (incoming) data is sent from a computer and arrives at the same time. this via a satellite. The material of each subscriber is included. includes a parabolic antenna and a transceiver (transmitter/receiver).

Directly integrated into Google Maps, users will very soon be able to share their location in the application even when they do not have a network. As reported by the site Piunikaweb, lines of code were seen in a version beta of the mapping application which suggests that Google is preparing to add satellite connection functionalities in it.

A satellite connection

Concretely, these lines of code indicate that it will be possible to "update your position once every 15 minutes, up to & rsquo;five times a day" directly by satellite. This function should notably be available on Google's Pixel 9, which will be the first to benefit from Android 15.

If the satellite connection is actually integrated into Google Maps, it will be useful for Android smartphone owners, but it could also be a lifesaver. Last February, Apple's satellite function helped save the life of an American hiker who got lost in the Angeles National Forest, north of Los Angeles.