GPS World, February 2018

MARKET Segment Snapshot Applications Trends News WATCH OEM 2 With Unicore BeiDou Navigates to CES Stage W ith the successful launch of newest BeiDou 3 navigation satellites Beidous pace of globalization is quickening As a provider of Chinas domestic GNSS core products Unicore Communications brought its full range of products to the Consumer Electronics Show CES which took place Jan 9 12 in Las Vegas Unicores exhibits targeted intelligent drive and the internet of things IoT For intelligent drive Unicore showcased its UM482 high precision GNSS module which is designed for high end L3 self driving and robots Unicore also introduced a costeffective low power GNSS module the UM442 suitable for L2 advanced driver assistance systems ADAS applications and community based GNSS navigation and maps 34 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM FEBRUARY 2018 UM442 is a cost efficient highprecision real time kinematic RTK and heading module that can simultaneously track GPS BDS GLONASS and Galileo It also supports SBAS and QZSS Based on high performance datasharing technology and the simplified operation system of the Nebulas II chip the UGypsophila RTK algorithm dramatical ly optimizes matrix processing Therefore the UM442 can track many more satellites and shorten the initialization time to 5 seconds With on board micro electromechanical MEMS and the U Fusion integrated navigation algorithm UM442 can achieve accurate and reliable positioning even in challenging environments such as urban canyons and tunnels Spirent Adds BeiDou 3 to Simulators G NSS testing solutions c omp a n y S p i r e n t Communications has added BeiDou Phase 3 signals to its GNSS RF constellation simulators BeiDou Phase 3 signals are available immediately on the GSS7000 and GSS9000 simulators and existing users can obtain the software upgrade by contacting Spirent The addition of these new signals to the GSS7000 and GSS9000 simulators follows the launch of the first two Beidou 3 satellites in November 2017 Two others were launched Jan 12 Phase 3 of the Chinese BeiDou system will extend its coverage from Asia to the entire world It will provide receiver developers and integrators with additional GNSS signals to make positioning navigation and timing systems more accurate and help to support new applications such as autonomous vehicles The new signals will use the same carrier frequencies as the GPS and Galileo systems so chipset manufacturers and device developers will need to test integrated designs to avoid problems caused by confusing data from different GNSS To learn more about how to test devices for multi GNSS Spirent offers a white paper Preparing for Multi Frequency GPS GNSS in Consumer Devices ComNav Tracks Third Generation Beidou Signals C omNav Technology has tracked and decoded the latest format BeiDou 3 satellite signals B1C and B2a from satellites Beidou 19 and Beidou 20 The launch of the two third generation BeiDou satellites on Nov 5 2017 indicates that China has begun to upgrade its satellite system with global coverage capabilities After the successful launch ComNav began tracking and decoding the BD 3 satellite signals to provide better highprecision positioning services in the near future See The System page 10 for more on BeiDou 3 Satellite view during a UM442 road test using the UGypsophila RTK algorithm The UM442 achieves centimeter level RTK positioning using a low cost ceramic antenna