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Rohde & Schwarz updates Navigation & Guidance Solutions Learning Center

October 23, 2018 - By

Rohde & Schwarz has updated its Navigation and Guidance Solutions Learning Center with several features, including application notes, white papers, training videos and products for aerospace and defense applications. Rohde & Schwarz provides accurate, flexible, high-performance test solutions to cover every need — from design, development, calibration and production to operational maintenance for ground based systems and advanced hybrid constellation... read more

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Polaris Wireless achieves floor-level accuracy

October 23, 2018 - By

In early 2018, Polaris Wireless participated in the CTIA’s Test Bed LLC Stage Z independent vertical location testing in San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago. The company states that by using actual test call data to emulate active sensor compensation, its solution improved from 4.8- to 2.8-meter accuracy at the 80th percentile, which exceeds the commonly accepted definition of floor-level accuracy... read more

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EU ‘GLAD-2’ develop low-cost nav for UAVs

October 22, 2018 - By

A European Union-funded initiative has developed a low-cost positioning and navigation system for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Using multiple antennas, the device is based on off-the-shelf components and advanced data-fusion algorithms. It fuses GNSS and inertial data to enable accurate and reliable navigation. The EU-funded Horizon 2020 GLAD-2 project developed the system. The work involved in-depth analysis of algorithms, hardware... read more

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Swift demos Starling with Teseo auto-grade chips from ST

October 22, 2018 - By

Swift Navigation has demonstrated its Starling positioning engine with automotive-grade chips from STMicroelectronics’ Teseo platform. The Starling modular and portable GNSS high-precision positioning engine leverages Swift’s Skylark Cloud Corrections Service. An advanced GNSS processing engine, Starling enhances measurements from commercially available GNSS receivers to provide true precision and integrity capabilities, the company said. Starling is GNSS-receiver agnostic and works with a... read more

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Skyworks powers connected lighting for smart cities

October 22, 2018 - By

Skyworks Solutions‘ advanced wireless engines are enabling Philips’ CityTouch end-to-end street lighting management platforms. Specifically, Skyworks’ connectivity solutions provide efficiency, extended range and complete network coverage to facilitate seamless communication between Philips’ smart street lamps and cellular base stations. The innovative devices allow city operators to reduce power consumption and support public safety through adaptive scheduling and remote services, the... read more

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GAO targets DoD cyber vulnerability

October 22, 2018 - By

In a 50-page report to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the government’s General Accounting Office (GAO) finds that U.S. weapons systems are, almost across the board, highly vulnerable to cyber-attack. Furthermore, the Department of Defense (DoD) has gotten off to “a late start” in prioritizing cybersecurity, and has only “a nascent understanding” of how to develop more protected weapons... read more

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How to integrate autonomous CPS

October 22, 2018 - By

Dull, dirty and dangerous — those used to be the jobs relegated to autonomous systems. But a decade-plus of improvement in sensor and computing technology has brought autonomy into the mainstream as a defining technology of the future. At September’s ION GNSS+ conference, I attended a panel titled “Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems — The Way Ahead.” I came away astounded by... read more

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Thales receives contract to upgrade Galileo ground segment

October 19, 2018 - By

News from the European Space Agency The European Space Agency has awarded a new framework contract and two new work orders to Thales Alenia Space in France to upgrade the Galileo Mission Segment, the element of the worldwide Galileo ground segment dedicated to delivering navigation services. Included are upgrades to the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre (GSMC) near Paris, and implementation of... read more

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