Energy always comes at a premium with Wearables & IoT applications because it is typically powered by a tiny battery. This is why using power hungry chipset receivers is very difficult if not impossible. Snapshot positioning is a technique for determining a receiver’s position using only milliseconds of satellite signal. In comparison, a conventional chipset receiver may require a few to tens of seconds to compute the first position. Snapshot receiver technology operates counter-intuitively by forcing the receiver to be always OFF to conserve the precious battery. Leveraging our patented signal processing techniques, our receiver only needs to be turned ON for a few milliseconds. For Wearables and IoT applications where infrequent position fixes are needed but energy consumption must be kept to a minimum, a Snapshot receiver is ideal.