Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Deutsche Telekom IoT GmbH has certified the first two products from Würth Elektronik and added them to its IoT Digital Shelf.
By Inside GNSS
Helix Technologies announced that it has completed intensive real-world driving trials in densely urban London, UK, demonstrating mitigation of multi path and enabling satellite satellite position fixes even in underpasses and areas where overhead sky was obscured.
By Inside GNSS
Wireless and positioning company u-blox of Thalwil, Switzerland has acquired full ownership of Sapcorda Services GmbH, a joint venture formed by the company with Bosch, Geo++, and Mitsubishi Electric in 2017.
By Inside GNSS
Spirent Communications has added premium enhancements to its GSS9000 Series GNSS simulator, doubling the update rate to run simulations at a software and hardware update rate of up to 2 kHz, improving accuracy of the simulated trajectory without compromising performance.
By Inside GNSS
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) together with the European Commission has published an Information Note on the Galileo High Accuracy Service, providing an overview of the main characteristics of the service
By Inside GNSS
Vodafone, a British telecommunications company, has successfully used a new precision positioning technology to remotely track a vehicle to within 10 centimeters of its location.
By Inside GNSS
The European Space Agency officially announced testing of Galileo’s Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) in its signal-in-space, allowing the first OSNMA-protected position fix to be successfully computed. This is the first-ever transmission of authentication features in open signals of a GNSS.
By Inside GNSS
An international autonomous racing series with electric-powered vehicles will use Trimble’s Applanix POS LVX GNSS-inertial systems in all of its next-generation autonomous race cars in 2021, as part of an extensive technology and marketing partnership.
By Inside GNSS
By Logan Scott
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DoT’s) “Complementary PNT and GPS Backup Technologies Demonstration Report” released this January has some excellent data on the relative performances of various systems in timing and positioning.
By Inside GNSS
U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, wrote an opinion editorial piece at the close of 2020 warning any investors or potential investors in Ligado Networks that they face “massive risks.”
By Inside GNSS
The SiriusXM satellite radio network now broadcasts GNSS corrections from Trimble’s RTX service. New cars sold in the contiguous U.S. and Canada equipped with SiriusXM’s Gen8 satellite chipset will be able to receive RTX GNSS corrections, without the need to access a cellular network, thus enabling high-accuracy positioning, a key component of autonomous on-road applications.
By Inside GNSS
Japan’s new Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS) now broadcasts a signal for nationwide open PPP-RTK service in Japan, providing centimeter positioning accuracy in a minute.
By Inside GNSS
Swift Navigation announced that its precise positioning platform can improve the performance of existing single-frequency GNSS positioning, found on most production vehicles today, from the standard average of 3 meters to lane-level accuracy without changing existing hardware and antenna.
By Inside GNSS