Advanced positioning and navigation solutions that require high computational power

The processing in the cloud of GNSS signal snapshots can be of interest when targeting a gain in terms of power consumption or computational burden, offloading the local device or chipset from the full GNSS processing. Moreover, cloud processing allows the application of complex or advanced positioning or navigation solutions that require a high computational burden, or depend on the usage of heavy assistance information (e.g. radio and magnetic fingerprinting maps, detailed 3D maps, etc.). And, of course, new positioning applications or processing techniques can be derived from, or take advantage of, the crowd-sourced and/or cooperative processing of the GNSS signal snapshots and other sensor data gathered by the low-end devices connected to the Internet.