Location devices make up one especially interesting category. By now, most people are familiar with global positioning systems GPS. The Location category could include other sensor types.
Some of these sensor types are software based, such as an IP resolver that provides location information based on an Internet address, a mobile phone tower triangulator that determines location based on nearby towers, or a Wi-Fi network location provider that reads location information from the connected wireless network hub.
The Windows Sensor and Location platform consists of the following developer and user components:. Sensor manufacturers can create device drivers to connect sensors with Windows 7. Many device drivers have been written by using these frameworks. Because these technologies are established, experienced device driver programmers will find writing a sensor driver to be a familiar task. For more information about creating sensor device drivers, see the Windows Driver Kit.
The API defines interfaces to perform common sensor programming tasks that include managing sensors by category, type, or ID, managing sensor events, working with individual sensors and sensor collections, and working with sensor data. The Windows SDK includes header files, documentation, samples, and tools to help guide software developers on how to use sensors in Windows programs.
This documentation describes the Sensor API. Scripting support gives easy access to location data for projects that run in the Local Computer zone, such as gadgets. The Windows SDK includes header files, documentation including scripting reference documentation , samples, and tools to help guide Web and software developers on how to use location information in their programs. We already have it in Cars. It uses hybrid mix of geolocation service providers and geolocation methods to pinpoint the most accurate location information possible — including but not limited to WiFi triangulation , cell tower triangulation and IP lookup.
Click to see the list of it. Once you install Geo Sense you will see it in the list. You will have to enable it manually. Click on the Sensor name and you will see more description about it. Here you can either change the access the settings and also can uninstall if you stop using any of it.
Make sure you know who access the Geo location devices. If you are too concerned where your PC or you are please uncheck for people who should not get access to it. If it is not an invasion of your privacy what is the WWW site you are attempting to use so we can try it here. When a site requests that information and if you allow it, your browser will send your IP address to the site and some other things and the WWW site will attempt to geolocate you so it can offer you suggestions that are close to your location - like if you are ordering a pizza you would like to see the locations that are closest to you.
This is not the same as hardware location sensors that might be built into the hardware on your system of unspecified make and model and if your system does not have these hardware location sensors from Control Panel you would see a message like this:. Keeping in mind that we can't see what you are seeing the instruction in this link will tell you how to include a screenshot in your replies:.
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