Category: GPS

Leadership Talks: Interview with Gareth Gibson, Trimble

Precision at Any Level Business Model Enables Mass Adoption of Product with Service In September 2021, Trimble released its DA2 GNSS receiver with Trimble Catalyst service. I asked Gareth Gibson, the company’s marketing director, Mapping & GIS Solutions, about the…
Quectel releases GNSS module LC29H with RTK and dead reckoning

Photo: Quectel Quectel Wireless Solutions has released the LC29H, a dual-band multi-constellation GNSS module. Built using the Airoha AG3335 platform, the LC29H is available in multiple variants and optionally integrates real-time kinematic (RTK) and dead reckoning. The LC29H series offers…
HxGN LIVE Global: Summit keynotes and Formula 1 cars

Burkhard Boeckem and a Boston Dynamics robot dog share insights into smart digital realities. (Photo: Hexagon) At HxGN LIVE Global 2022, in-person attendees experienced the full breadth of what the flagship conference has to offer for the first time since…
New Telit GNSS receiver provides advanced power modes

Photo: Telit Telit has released the SE873K5 multi-constellation GNSS receiver in the L1 band. The SE873K5 simultaneously tracks and navigates all four GNSS constellations — GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou — providing GNSS information over a UART, I2C or SPI…
Research Roundup: Navigating urban canyons

Tall buildings block GNSS signals, making satellite navigation in urban canyons very challenging. (Photo: RoschetzkyIstockPhoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images) GPS positioning for navigation and mapping is challenging in urban environments, where GPS signals often are blocked by tall buildings. The following…
Anello Photonics offers GNSS/INS evaluation kit for autonomous applications

The company is engaged in trials with customers in mapping, surveying, robotics, construction, trucking, defense, aerospace and autonomous vehicle applications Anello Photonics has made available an optical gyroscope and GNSS/inertial navigation system (INS) evaluation kit (EVK) for autonomous applications. Powered…
Magnetic Navigation 2022 – Freedom from GNSS? 

Dana Goward, President, Resilient PNT Foundation In a world where GPS and other GNSS signals can be easily denied or, worse, spoofed, interest in other forms of navigation has rebounded. Imagine being able to locate yourself within a couple of…
NAVCEN website redesign now live

The NAVCEN website upgrade and redesign is now live. “This is an exciting moment for our team,” said Stephanie Southwick, NAVCEN web team. “Thank you again for your patience as we move forth with this transition to improve user experience…
Nestwave white paper considers power consumption for IoT devices

Nestwave has released a white paper that considers the challenges associated with integrating accurate geolocation into compact, battery-powered, low-cost internet of things (IoT) nodes. The technical paper “Minimizing Power Budgets to Enable Geolocation on Every IoT Device” is targeted at…