By Jason Penkethman, Chief Product Officer at Spireon Fleets looking to take their operations to the next level look to GPS solutions for the obvious benefits — driver/vehicle location tracking, driver behavior monitoring, improved efficiency — and some that are not so obvious, such as making a positive impact on the environment. “Going green” can be an arduous task, requiring... read more
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $48 million contract to Aurora Flight Sciences for the continued development of the Orion unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Aurora Flight is a Boeing company. Orion is a twin-engine high-performance UAS that can stay aloft over 100 hours at a time with payloads in excess of 1,000 pounds. Development of the Orion started in... read more
BlackBerry Limited and Baidu Inc. are collaborating to accelerate the deployment of connected and autonomous vehicle technology for automotive OEMs and suppliers worldwide. The companies have signed a statement of intent to make BlackBerry QNX‘s ISO26262 ASIL-D certified safety operating system (OS) the foundation for Baidu’s Apollo autonomous driving open platform. Also, BlackBerry and Baidu will work together to integrate... read more
The upcoming annual conference sponsored by the IGNSS Society will take a close look at autonomy and provide GNSS constellation updates. IGNSS is the southeast Asian region’s premier conference on GNSS and related position, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies. This year’s conference theme is “Trusted Positioning: From Here to Autonomy.” The event, sponsored by Lockheed Martin, takes place Feb. 7-9... read more
From April 1 onward, car manufacturers are required to equip new vehicles for sale in the European Union with an eCall module. In the event of a serious accident, this emergency call system automatically sends data to the uniform European emergency phone number 112 to facilitate faster response by emergency services. The independent test house CETECOM has now certified the... read more
Q: How will safety issues raised by increasing autonomous traffic — in the air and on roads — affect the GNSS industry? A: Due to increasing autonomous traffic, the GNSS industry will have to adopt the concepts of collective tracking mechanisms in the shared ecosystem. Inherently, all the cars/drones (rovers) will have the sensors to track the traffic “on-the-fly”... read more
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