Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
NovAtel Inc. has announced the 7.05.04 firmware release for its OEM7 series family of receivers, and with this release NavIC L5 signals are now available on NovAtel OEM7 receivers.
By Inside GNSS
Designed to support the Indian NavIC (formerly IRNSS) constellation L5 signal simultaneously with GPS L1 and SBAS, the Telit SL869T3-I GNSS module is the new multi-constellation member of the company’s SL869 family of modules.
The SL869T3-I is equipped with special HW and SW to support navigation on L1 and L5 bands. It can navigate using GPS L1, IRNSS/NavIC L5 and the GAGAN L1 SBAS systems concurrently, according to the company.
By Inside GNSS
Sokkia has introduced the latest addition to its GNSS integrated receiver line — the GRX3 which is designed to provide a smaller, lighter and fully integrated GNSS solution.
“The multi-constellation GRX3 receiver is built to offer a complete and versatile solution to provide best-in-class positioning performance for a wide variety of precision applications,” said Alok Srivastava, director of product management.
By Inside GNSS
Inertial Sense, creators of the smallest high-performance precision GPS-Inertial Navigation Systems, recently announced the release of precise RTK-level accuracy. The new inertial navigation solution offers an accuracy of 2-3 centimeters GPS position, in combination with inertial sensors (including on-board sensor fusion), at a lower price point than competitive INS+RTK Sensor offerings, according to the manufacturer.
By Inside GNSS
Skydel Solutions recently released SDX 19.1, the eighteenth major revision of its GNSS Simulator. This newest GNSS simulator version adds Galileo AltBOC support, atmospheric errors, SBAS improvements, and GNSS satellite antenna patterns.
By Stan Goff
NaviSoC is described as an all-in-one, single-chip solution capable of bringing reliable, high-precision positioning to mass-market users and applications. It will be on display at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC Barcelona) February 25-28 at Barcelona’s Fira Gran Via.
By Inside GNSS
Allystar Technology Co. Ltd., headquartered in Shenzhen, China, has announced a multi-band multi-GNSS single chip. The new generation GNSS chipset is based on the Cynosure III architecture integrating multi-band multi-system GNSS RF and baseband.
By Inside GNSS
ACEINNA has launched its new INS1000 high performance dual-band RTK INS (Real-Time Kinematic Inertial Navigation System) with built-in inertial sensors for construction, agriculture and automotive applications.
The INS1000 embeds ACEINNA’s 9 degree-of-freedom inertial sensor technology to achieve Automotive Dead Reckoning performance in GNSS challenged environments like urban canyons, heavily tree-lined roads, tunnels, underpasses, bridges, etc.
By Inside GNSS
CHC Navigation has announced the immediate availability of its new APACHE 3, a lightweight portable unmanned surface vessel.
“Featuring triple-hulled and shallow draught design, the APACHE 3 is a portable autonomous USV for bathymetric surveys of lakes, inland rivers and coastal areas.”, said Yann Yan, product manager of USV Solutions. “Its compact size and light weight (1-meter length and 7kg mass without instrument) allows one person to operate the system easily.”
By Inside GNSS
Tersus GNSS Inc. just released the Tersus GeoCaster, a Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol (NTRIP) Caster Software, to expand its product line and provide users with better and more comprehensive services.
By Inside GNSS
Veteran journalist, consultant and educator Abe Peck has joined Autonomous Media as Executive Editor of Inside Unmanned Systems and Inside GNSS. The magazines cover autonomous vehicles from ground to air to sea, and the satellite navigation that empowers them.
By Inside GNSS
Septentrio and German company Sapcorda, specialized in safe broadcasted GNSS correction services, announced they will deliver live demonstration of a safe high-accuracy positioning and correction solution for automated driving. The companies have combined their respective technologies to deliver the benefits of SSR (Space State Representation) technology seamlessly to OEM automakers and Tier1 integrators.
By Inside GNSS
An Israeli firm is introducing a technology to detect the spoofing of GPS and other satellite navigation signals that is packaged into a device so small it can be integrated into existing receivers for drones, ships and autonomous vehicles — and, soon, maybe even cell phones.
By Dee Ann Divis
