Windows Sensor and Location Platform a new development platform from Microsoft facilitates the use of sensor, including location sensors like GPS devices in the Windows 7 operating system. It enables your computer to adapt to the current environment. With location sensor including GPS devices, WWAN radios, and even triangulation technology, your applications and gadgets can know exactly where they are, enabling them to provide more locally relevant content and functionality. Ambient light sensors can allow your computer to automatically adjust your screen’s brightness based on the current lighting conditions. They can also enable applications to optimize their content for readability making your computer more useful in range of operation environments than ever before.

The platform provides a standard way to integrate sensor and location devices into Windows, as well as a standard programming interface for applications to take advantage of these devices. The user has to control over how data from these devices is exposed to applications on Windows 7. This is a framework that tries to remove the old legacy of COM-ports for communication with external devices. Even a lot of today’s USB devices, still rely on the COM protocol to communicate with PC. The Location and Sensor Platform in Windows 7 improves this with a modern architecture for arbitrary hardware sensory input.