“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. Photo: Milos Bjelica/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Drawing with GPS According to Guinness World Records, a 982.53-mile, seven-day…
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the December 2021 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM Satellite-cell terminal With built-in GPS receiver Photo: OQ OQ Technology’s dual-mode satellite-cellular IoT modem and tracker is a plug-and-play,…
Image: ipopba/iStock / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Acculink Cargo provides a near real-time visibility, global tracking and exception-based monitoring asset tracking to serve the $ 30B+ global market. Sierra Wireless has launched Acculink Cargo, a new managed internet of things…
New tech can track vehicles, drones and cargo remotely within centimeters — key to safe adoption of autonomous vehicles, flying objects and machinery Vodafone has successfully used new precision positioning technology to remotely track a vehicle to within 10 centimeters…
Particle — an edge-to-cloud internet of things (IoT) platform — is offering a new tracking system that allows organizations to track the locations of a wide variety of mobile assets. Particle’s Tracker SOM (system-on-module) builds on its tracking services foundation.…
Photo: AntonioGuillem/iStock / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Commentary by Jeremy Meisinger The scale and speed of the COVID-19 crisis has left policymakers searching for new tools to address an unprecedented challenge. Everything from faster testing to new treatments to more…
Space-to-Cloud Data Analytics Company Announces New Aircraft Tracking Technology Image: Spire Aviation Spire Global has announced the company’s first product from Spire Aviation with the launch of its new AirSafe API (application program interface.) Spire Aviation’s AirSafe product uses low-Earth…
Image: Orolia All newly-built commercial aircraft must adhere to safety standards that go into effect Jan. 1, 2021. Orolia, which develops new technology for the Global Aeronautical Distress Safety System (GADSS), offers the Kannad Ultima-DT Distress Tracking Emergency Locator Transmitter.…
The Falcon 4 UAV camera. (Photo: Teledyne) Teledyne Optech, Teledyne DALSA and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, all part of the Teledyne Imaging group, will share a combined presence at Booth #2520 at the AUVSI Xponential 2019 show in Chicago April…
