Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
NovAtel Inc.’s Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of predefined functions for developing custom software to execute from and interface with the GNSS receiver platform. The next generation API from NovAtel features a simple scripting language designed to easily create scripts to perform specialized operations that run onboard the receiver.
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One of the biggest 5G network deployment challenges is synchronizing higher volumes of more densely packed base stations. Another is keeping services operating through GNSS lapses due to vulnerabilities such as jamming, spoofing or loss of signal. Microchip Technology Inc., via its Microsemi subsidiary, is solving these and other challenges for networks with additions to its Precision Time Protocol (PTP) PackeTime® portfolio including the TimeProvider 4100 Release 2.0. The TimeProvider release adds 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) support, a Boundary Clock operation mode that lowers operational costs, and other enhancements to improve how timing flows are distributed from multiple sources to a network’s base stations and other endpoints.
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San Francisco-based tech firm Swift Navigation today announced nationwide coverage for its network-connected Skylark precise positioning service. Full contiguous United States (CONUS) coverage is designed to reduce initialization times to seconds, ensuring high-accuracy—and high-integrity—positioning is available when customers need it.
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The new Sirius RTK GNSS Rover F9P is meant to be mounted on the vehicle that’s moving. Whereas the base is supposed to be immobile (even though it can be mobile, which implies a loss of accuracy), the rover is the module receiving the corrections, providing the information to the autopilot with its position, heading, height…
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At last week’s EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Garmin announced an expansion to its product line for the general aviation market including the GNC 355 GPS/comm.
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The latest update to Racelogic’s SatGen GNSS simulation software for PC now incorporates Galileo RF simulation.
Designed to create a GNSS RF I&Q or IF data file based on a user-generated trajectory file, the updated software can now accurately simulate the European Galileo GNSS satellite constellation alongside existing GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou RF signal generation.
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Shanghai, China-based Tersus GNSS Inc. recently launched its new David Plus receiver, a dual-antenna GNSS receiver which offers centimeter-accurate positioning and heading. It is designed for intelligent transportation, construction, machine control, precision agriculture, and navigation applications.
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u-blox , a provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies, and Arvento Mobile Systems, a vehicle telematics and fleet management technology company, today announced the imminent launch of the new imt.x1 vehicle tracking system.
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Trimble recently introduced the latest version of its core real-time monitoring software—Trimble 4D Control software. Version 5.0 provides new features that enable users to streamline real-time structural monitoring system deployment as well as simplify the connection to geotechnical sensors. Trimble 4D Control software enables project stakeholders to monitor critical infrastructure such as dams and bridges along with mines and buildings surrounding construction sites and tunnels.
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Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has begun taking orders for its latest-generation Miniature PLGR Engine – M-Code (MPE-M) GPS receiver set for 2020 production deliveries. According to independent testing, the MPE-M is the lowest Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) small Type II form factor ground receiver available and incorporates the company’s recently certified Common GPS Module (CGM).
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Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global supplier of cellular and GNSS positioning modules, announced that it has launched a compact dual-band GNSS module LC79D with support of L1 and L5 bands for satellites designed to greatly improve positioning accuracy. LC79D was recently showcased at MWC Shanghai 2019, June 26-28.
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Hemisphere GNSS recently announced its next-generation digital and RF (radio frequency) ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) platforms, and the release of three all-new positioning and heading OEM (original equipment manufacturer) boards–the first products incorporating these technological advancements.
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Leuven, Belgium-based Septentrio has made its mosaic development kit available for testing and integration. Described as the company’s most compact next-generation, high-precision multi-frequency GPS/GNSS module, this receiver brings precision and reliability of high-end multi-frequency GNSS to mass market applications. It is designed to fit into the assembly line process, which allows mosaic to be favorably priced for high volumes.
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