GPS World, September 2010

THE BUSINESS Trimble has introduced the AP10 receiver the latest addition to the Trimble AP line of embedded GNSSInertial OEM board products that combine high performance precision GNSS and Applanix IN Fusion GNSSInertial integration technology all running on a dedicated Inertial Engine IE board The AP Series is designed for a variety of commercial mobile positioning including airborne terrestrial and marine mapping and guidance for unmanned vehicles The Trimble AP10 is for system integrators with need for robust positioning and orientation for mapping navigation or machine control solutions The AP10 incorporates a Micro Electro Mechanical System MEMS based Inertial Measurement Unit IMU directly on the board set resulting in the smallest GNSS Aided Inertial Navigation System available from Trimble to date The lightweight compact technology enables high accuracy mobile mapping and positioning in almost any environment including dense urban areas under bridges through tunnels and during high banked turns of a survey aircraft at a lower cost than previous AP receivers Trimble said NovAtel Inc has released Version 1011 firmware for its L1 OEMStar GNSS receiver Version 1011 provides improvements in PDP and GL1DE filter performance satellite tracking in low signal level environments SBAS performance when operating outside of the standard grid map and time to first fix This latest release also enables the DGPS_ Rx_ Advanced feature on all models which allows OEMStar to obtain a DGPS position when receiving carrier phase RTCM23 RTCA RTCMv3 and CMR messages The firmware update is available free to all customers its fall show to CTIA Enterprise Applications to reflect the evolution of the industry and growing use of R mobile technology in business evolutionary is not a word to bandy ab Locations Beyond Summit 2010 October 6 2010 San Francisco California CTIA Enterprise Applications show www pointthinktank com An event that began in 2007 the Locations Beyond Summit brings together leaders and innovators in the connectivity and location based services industries for half a day of thought provoking discussions This years event takes place during the CTIA Wireless Enterprise Applications show ENC GNSS 2010 October 19 21 2010 Braunschweig Germany www enc gnss2010 org The European Navigation Conference on GNSS is an opportunity to meet key actors in the navigation area and discuss the latest developments in navigation and positioning systems techniques and their applications High level scientific activities will be highlighted More events online www gpsworld com events in v40 make analysis of data from mixed receiver types easier than before the company said Applanix has released its next generation POS LV Position and Orientation System for Land Vehicles the POS LV Version 5 POS LV V5 has a POS Computer System PCS half the size of the previous version Ruggedized and fully sealed the POS LV V5 delivers highly accurate uninterrupted positioning and orientation information from a moving zvehicle The system has been redesigned as take the POS LV into more extreme environments to address additional mobile mapping and navigation applications such as road profiling pavement analysis and asset management EVENTS a more compact rugged and sealed unit Improved durability and reliability will allow users to applications GPS Wireless 2010 October 5 2010 San Francisco California CTIA Enterprise Applications show www gps wireless com GPS Worlds own LBS Insider editor Kevin Dennehy also owns and operates the annual GPS Wireless conference which this year is co located with CTIA GPS Wireless 2010 brings top executives together to discuss the important and converging navigation locationbased services fleet and asset management for enterprise markets online portal personal location and homeland security markets The LBS ecosystem includes location itself navigation routeguidance real time traffic information KEVIN DENNEHY local search social networking and entertainment and recreation GPS Wireless 2010 is a partner event with CTIA Enterprise Applications The full program of co located partner events will examine the wireless industry from mobile commerce and smart energy to the latest in application development and cloud computing CTIA rebranded GPS World September 2010 www gpsworld com 18