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Azuga expands sales operations for connected fleets

May 23, 2016 - By

Azuga, a provider of connected vehicle technology, expanded its sales operations to serve more than 100 fleets in 10 countries across Latin America, Europe, India and parts of the Middle East, the company announced in a news release. “Our next-generation, easy-to-use connected vehicle solutions are now disrupting the fleet telematics market internationally with driver-friendly fleet telematics, dramatically lower costs and country-specific customizations,” says Ananth Rani,... read more

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NovAtel: Proposed Ligado wireless network a concern for high-precision positioning

May 22, 2016 - By

NovAtel Inc. has submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding Ligado Networks LLC’s (formerly New LightSquared LLC) License Modification Applications. NovAtel raises deep concerns about the testing methodology used and conclusions presented by Ligado regarding the impact of its proposed usage of L-band frequencies for a terrestrial wireless network. In its filing, NovAtel identified serious flaws in the testing... read more

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Venom shows off drone batteries at AUVSI’s Xponential 2016

May 20, 2016 - By

Venom Power displays numerous battery options for UAVs at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International‘s Xponential show, held May 2-5 in new Orleans. Venom offers a line of rechargeable batteries specifically made for UAVs. read more

New engineering team at NovAtel to deliver safe positioning technology for autonomous vehicles

May 20, 2016 - By

NovAtel Inc. announced a new initiative and engineering team to develop functionally safe GNSS positioning technology for fully autonomous applications. The company leverages its extensive experience developing safety-critical systems for the aviation industry to meet the future safety thresholds required for driverless cars and autonomous applications in agriculture, mining, and other government, military and commercial markets. In early 2015, NovAtel... read more

Intergeo 2016 preview event focuses on smart cities

May 19, 2016 - By

Intergeo 2016 host DVW German Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management gathered together experts from the worlds of business, public authorities and science to talk about this year’s key topic of the show: the “smart city.” Held in April at Hamburg’s Agency for Geoinformation and Surveying, the event focused on what an intelligent, digital city might look like and what... read more

Esri introduces high-precision GNSS mobile GIS software

May 19, 2016 - By

The title of this column may surprise you. Esri has never built a high-precision GNSS mobile GIS software in its 47-year history. Its ArcGIS Collector did not differentiate between low-precision GNSS data and RTK GNSS receivers — until now. read more

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STMicroelectronics, Autotalks fuse satellite navigation with V2X

May 18, 2016 - By

STMicroelectronics and Israel-based Autotalks have announced their fusion of GNSS technology and V2X ranging. The new V2X-Enhanced GNSS ensures authenticated and secure vehicle localization for extreme accuracy and reliability of positioning information, especially in urban canyons, tunnels and parking structures, where accurate absolute and relative positioning-to other vehicles and infrastructure-is critical in progress toward semi- and fully-autonomous vehicles. STMicroelectronics is a semiconductor company,... read more

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OGC requests comment on revision of its GWML2 specification

May 18, 2016 - By

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting comments on the WaterML 2: Part 4 – GroundWaterML 2 (GWML2) candidate standard. GWML2 provides an encoding for data involved in the study and use of groundwater. The candidate standard includes conceptual and logical models as well as an XML-based encoding schema. GWML2 is part of the larger WaterML2.0 suite of standards coordinated... read more

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