Leading GNSS receiver manufacturer Septentrio is introducing its AsteRx SB at two industry shows taking place this week: Expomin in Santiago, Chile (April 23-27), and Intermat in Paris, France. The AsteRx SB delivers Septentrio’s quad-constellation real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning in a low-power,…
Raytheon Company and the U.S. Navy completed the final developmental test to integrate the Joint Standoff Weapon C onto the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s C variant, keeping the low-cost, air-to-ground missile on track for full deployment in 2019. The JSOW…
UASTrakker LLC is offering a new guidance system to enable first responders and maritime rescue units to use fully autonomous drones to help locate people lost at sea or in the wilderness. The company will showcase the system at AUVSI Xponential, scheduled for…
Harxon Corporation is launching the single-frequency, multi-GNSS real-time-kinematic (RTK) enabled Smart Antenna TS300 series, designed for manual guidance and autosteer agriculture applications that benefit from scalable performance in positioning accuracy. The TS300 series smart antennas are designed for manual guidance…
Spirent Communications plc is working with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to help implement the eCall system, which is required in new cars sold in Europe starting this month. Experts from the JRC have been working with Spirent…
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the April 2018 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM GNSS RTK Board For OEMs, system integrators The BX306Z GNSS real-time kinematic (RTK) board has powerful flexibility and…
By Yanming Feng and Charles Wang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Charles Karl, Australia Road Research Board, Australia / Presented at ION International Technical Meeting 2018 Connected vehicle safety and traffic applications depend on communication, position and velocity information…
Q: What key aspects should product designers consider when integrating inertial technology with GPS/GNSS? Jeremy Davis, Director, VectorNav Technologies A: The availability and quality of GPS in the application is critical. Industrial-grade MEMS IMUs can provide survey-grade performance when high-quality…
Orolia, a resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Talen-X. Talen-X is a U.S. technology innovator with the ability to characterize, enhance and implement advanced techniques and products to solve real-world GNSS…
