bengaluru the indian space research organisation isro is in advanced level negotiations with xiaomi a chinese mobile phone maker to include navic chipsets which will provide indias own version of gps services to users in the subcontinent in its phonethe chipset will be made by us chipmaker qualcomm technologies in collaboration with isro as announced in october this year toi first reported that isro was in talks with qualcomm in july 2019a senior official from isro said on wednesday that if all goes well xiaomi may launch handsets integrated with navic in about seven months we are looking at the midsegment mobile phones he saidwhile revealing that isro is confident of getting xiaomi onboard the official however said that nothing has been finalised on the collaboration with qualcomm the official said we are expecting them to release the chipsets later this monthnavic is indias regional satellite navigation system irnss that provides accurate realtime positioning and timing services the constellation of satellites under the irnss programme covers a region of about 1500 km around its boundary with plans for expansionthe inability to integrate navic with mobile phones has been a barrier preventing taking the irnss services to the masses although isro and the indian air force iaf are also working on equipping fighter planes with it and commercial vehicles registered after april 1 2019 are mandated to also have trackers with navicmore than 30 companies are manufacturing automotive research association of india arai or international centre for automotive technology icat approved navicenabled vehicle trackers in india alreadybesides this isro said that a multi chip module mcm based on 55nm technology developed through taiwanbased skytraq has been procured by its commercial arm to enable indian industry in productionisation of navic messaging receiver and vehicle tracker unitssivan had earlier told toi in the future we are also looking at navic on auto rickshaws carrying advertisements at present the advertiser does not know if the ad is reaching the target audience and how many places the rickshaw actually goes to with navic they will be able to know the exact details