GPS World, January 2011

Ten Big Ones in Five A t the opposite end of this book my esteemed colleague Eric Gakstatter gives you his Top Five news stories of the recently passed year from a system point of view Spend five minutes here in this column and Ill toss up the Top Ten for GNSS business as reported in this magazine Not the biggest money deals or revenue generators at least not in the short term But the most significant in terms of breaking new ground pushing out frontiers integrating with other technologies the modes through which industry grows and prospers Im leafing through my back copies in reverse order This listing goes not by prominence but by reverse chronology PNDs Up Then Down By 2015 When you are doing well rest assured that someone is gaining on you Smartphones will gradually take over the personal nav market Stay flexible innovate and be prepared to change horses in midstream Rockwell Delivers New MUE While military user equipment gave this industry its start the receivers themselves have always lagged behind product available to civil users Still security features in the GB GRAM M foreshadow what all receivers may eventually require Triumph V S from JAVAD Supercharged with capabilities a veritable surveyors arsenal and probably a gamechanger whether or not it makes it in the marketplace A visionary product NovAtel OEMV 1DF Almost every month another smallest yet consumergrade GPS receiver emerges But when high precision dual frequency receivers grind down their footprint and power requirement you know this is a future wave that will sweep everything along Not the only tiny high performance OEM receiver mind you just the latest LLC Rusnavgeoset The joint venture between Trimble and a Russian company will help drive the commercialization of GLONASS an aspect that system has not yet truly seen We all talk about the second GNSS of choice but the second commercialized GNSS is what we really want Smartphone Explosion The flipside to the first story This years models from Apple iPhone Google Android Blackberry Windows Phone 7 and all their kin if not built around location as Apple claimed certainly have it as core feature The flip of the flipside pricing for the GPS component is cut throat Absolutely the worst youve ever seen GPS Enabled USB Drive Thats all it takes well download some software and buy a contract to make a laptop location aware Spirent Assisted GLONASS Testing One more sign that the Russian system against betmakers odds may yet become the trusty sidekick Soon if your mobile doesnt have it its not top of class One Chip Receivers Plus Hardly breaking news since its been talked about and even done sort of for years TI Broadcom Qualcomm CSR and silent runners like Sony and Panasonic are all adding some communication transceiver s to GPS and squeezing them onto a single piece of silicon No News Is Big News Actually not reported here or anywhere because neither party wants to reveal anything but some of the biggest deals are cut by chip manufacturers such as STMicroelectronics to name just one with automobile makers around the world Like it or not the car truck is the dominant mechanical paradigm of our age And if location is in it We are indeed fortunate to be part of and partners in such a vital scene Best wishes for this New Year OUT IN FRONT Stay flexible innovate and be prepared to change horses in midstream www gpsworld com EDITORIAL Editor in Chief Alan Cameron acameron@ questex com Managing Editor Tracy Cozzens tcozzens@ questex com Art Director RJ Pooch rpooch@ questex com EDITORIAL OFFICES 201 Sandpointe Avenue Suite 500 Santa Ana CA 92707 8716 USA 714 338 6700 Fax 714 338 6717 www gpsworld com info@ gpsworld com CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Innovation Richard Langley lang@ unb ca Defense PNT Don Jewell djewell@ questex com LBS Insider Kevin Dennehy kdennehy@ questex com Professional OEM Tony Murfin tmurfin@ questex com Survey Eric Gakstatter egakstatter@ questex com Transportation Bill Thompson bthompson@ questex 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