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December 29, 2021

New GNSS Chip for Automotive Achieves Lane-Level Accuracy without RTK

Alps Alpine and Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. have jointly developed the UMSZ6 Series GNSS1 Module realizing high-accuracy positioning to within 50 centimeters without correction data for automotive applications.

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December 16, 2021

Swift Navigation Pairs with STMicro’s New Triple-Band Chip

Swift Navigation announced its support of the new STMicroelectronics Teseo V. The Teseo V family is a single-chip GNSS triple-frequency device for automotive use. Swift’s team has been working with ST to ensure the optimization of Swift’s precise positioning solution—comprised of the Starling positioning engine and Skylark precise positioning service—when paired with the STA8135GA Teseo V, the first single-chip triple-band GNSS IC (Integrated Circuit).

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October 29, 2021

New Teseo Family Module Integrates Inertial with Multi-Constellation GNSS for Automotive

STMicroelectronics has introduced the Teseo-VIC3DA, the latest member of the Teseo module family. Teseo-VIC3DA combines ST’s high-performing Automotive Teseo III GNSS1 IC with the automotive 6-axis MEMS inertial measurement unit (IMU) and dead reckoning software to create a convenient, automotive-qualified navigation module.

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November 25, 2020

Swift Navigation’s Precise Positioning Technology Improves Accuracy of Single-Frequency GNSS Receivers

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.

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June 9, 2020

Continent-spanning Drive Test Demonstrates Lane-Level Positioning

Swift Navigation has completed a 6,600-mile cross-country drive test measuring the efficacy of its Skylark cloud corrections service and demonstrating nationwide lane-level GNSS correction coverage at the accuracy, reliability and availability levels required by its customers.

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April 3, 2020

eCall Quickens Response, Saves Lives with Galileo and GPS

The European Union’s eCall emergency response system automatically calls emergency services in the event of a serious road accident, transmitting location information from a GNSS receiver (GPS and/or Galileo) installed in the car to local emergency agencies.

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March 3, 2020

Precise Positioning Service via Cloud Offered to Telecomm Customers

Swift Navigation and Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership to incorporate Swift’s Skylark Cloud Corrections Services within Telekom’s communications infrastructure through its new Precise Positioning product offering. The companies’ joint lane-level accurate Precise Positioning is designed for level 2 and 3 automotive applications

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February 7, 2020

Navigate Any Environment, Road or Underground

Three different low-cost sensor integrations, covering vehicle navigation in a range of environments, will be covered in a February 12 webinar, “Automotive-Grade GNSS + Inertial for Robust Navigation.”

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December 11, 2019

Phase Center Stability, the Key to Automotive Positioning

The antenna may qualify as the most overlooked element in high-precision positioning in automotive applications, which increasingly these days denote potentially autonomous applications. Yet it all starts there.

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March 7, 2018

NovAtel Demonstrates Precise Positioning Using the Teseo APP and Teseo V Automotive GNSS Chipsets from STMicroelectronics

NovAtel, part of Hexagon’s Positioning Intelligence Division, has integrated its high-precision positioning engine and correction services with the world’s first automotive-grade multi-frequency GNSS chipsets, the STMicroelectronics Teseo APP (Automotive Precise Positioning) and Teseo V.

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June 28, 2017

Spectracom Introduces eCall Compliance Tools for the Automotive Industry

Spectrac Compliance testing capabilities needed by all automotive manufacturers selling into the European Union market. Photo source: Spectracom.

Orolia, through its Spectracom brand, has introduced built-in scenarios for testing eCall In-Vehicle Systems compliance to the GNSS requirements of the regulation as an option with its latest Spectracom GSG Simulator products.

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