GPS World, July 2015

THE BUSINESS BUSINESS BRIEFS CHC Offers UAV Ground Control CHC Navigations UAV Ground Control UAV GC and post processing kit is designed to bring centimeter level control to projects for high precision UAV systems The standard kit includes five GNSS receivers with expansion of additional receivers in pairs The core of the system is the X900 OPUS a dualfrequency triple constellation receiver capable of cm positioning of the project at 200 km in absolute geodetic space The secondary X20 receivers serve as ground control points for orthorectification project verification and other high accuracy positional tasks Topcon Acquires NORAC Topcon Positioning Group has acquired NORAC Systems International a developer of ultrasonic sensing and boom control technology for agricultural equipment in a private transaction Harris exactEarth Form Alliance exactEarth Ltd and Harris Corporation have formed an alliance to provide a new level of Satellite Automatic Identification System AIS data service that will deliver real time global coverage for maritime vessel tracking The new service will leverage the persistent global coverage and real time connectivity of the Iridium NEXT constellation through the implementation of 58 hosted payloads covering the Maritime VHF frequency band TomTom Offers Auto Driving Maps TomTom is making available Highly Automated Driving HAD map content in the metro Detroit area where U S automakers are headquartered Car makers and HAD related companies can use TomToms high definition maps for precise vehicle positioning enabling future self driving cars to see beyond their sensors The HAD map covers the road network between Farmington Hills and Ann Arbor including I 696 96 and 275 US 23 and M 14 Google Car Drives a Million Miles Googles self driving car has driven itself one million miles Google announced the milestone June 4 on Google Plus Our software has now self driven the equivalent of 75 years of typical U S adult driving Along the way weve navigated more than 200000 stop signs 600000 traffic lights and seen 180 million vehicles with several thousand traffic cones some fluttering plastic shopping bags and a rogue duck thrown in for good measure Septentrio Joins with Forsberg Forsberg Germany has begun a strategic partnership with Septentrio Satellite Navigation Forsberg Germany is an OEM component supplier and system integrator and Septentrio is a designer and manufacturer of GPS GNSS receivers Forsberg will sell and support Septentrio OEM receivers in Germany Austria and Switzerland KCS TraceME Integrates LoRa KCS BV has extended its TraceME product line with an intelligent location based positioning solution LBS for indoor and outdoor antitheft applications The TM 202 R9C6 module is a high range variant of the TraceME GPS GPRS targeted for tracking and tracing a variety of objects including livestock The full version module is equipped with various technologies GPS GLONASS GPRS SMS LoRa Bluetooth LE ANT ANT and proprietary RF which can be combined dependent of the application and local mobile network coverage The low budget version without GPS or GPRS offers the highly intelligent traceability functionality INRIX Offers Parking Service INRIX is launching a new service aimed at addressing this problem by helping drivers quickly find onstreet parking BMW will be the first automaker to include the service for its cars in its ConnectedDrive autos INRIX On Street Parking updates hourly identifying streets with the best chances of finding a parking spot It includes pricing parking permit restrictions and policy rules free vs paid times days The service compares locations by distance and price GPS World July 2015 www gpsworld com 18