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Intermap this week announced the release of global elevation database that offers 30 meter ground sampling distance, across the entire 150 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface. “NEXTMap World 30 aggregates data from ASTER, SRTM and GTOPO...
Automatic Driving Assistance (ADAS) based on map data has been for a long time promoted by the like of NAVTEQ/Nokia, Tele Atlas/TomTom and smaller companies such as Intermap. But what does happen if the vehicle itself records the road geometry to...
Swiss maker of GNSS and wireless chipset u-blox today introduced its latest generation of GNSS chipset (UBX-G7020), u-blox 7 that offer record low power consumption in a tiny package of 3.0 x 3.4 mm. The UBX-G7020 is claimed to comsume only 7 mW...
Wi-Fi indoor and outdoor positioning provider Navizon is now offering a system to measure pedestrian traffic throughout a target area, both in real time and historically over time. By installing a single hardware device, Navizon Analytics...
In 1987, when satellite navigation was still in its infancy, Spirent led the world in GNSS testing. A quarter of a century later, we still do. The test solutions we’re creating today build on 25 years at the cutting edge of satellite and hybrid...
Austrian augmented reality start-up Wikitude this week announced the availability of its Augmented Reality (AR) engine for the mobile web. Until now augmented reality experiences on smartphones have been relying on special applications such as...
Indoor positioning start-up Pole Star has announced they are field testing their Wi-Fi indoor positioning technology on the iOS 5 operating system. Thus far the NAO Campus technology, currently deployed in three million square meters of airports,...
A French start-up called Ainsi has just started demonstrated an autonomous indoor location technology (aINDOOR GPS) dedicated to lone workers’ safety. The technology uses Magneto-Inertial MEMS data (compass and inertial sensors) to position a lone...
Google yesterday unveiled the Google Maps Floor Plan Marker App, an Android application that allows venue owners to wardrive RF frequencies (GPS, Wi-Fi, Cellular) inside their venues to improve Google’s indoor positioning database, including floor...
Consumers expect ever higher levels of performance from their GNSS-enabled devices. To meet those expectations takes comprehensive performance testing at every stage: from chipset design and integration to checking the completed smartphones, tablet...
Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom today introduced its latest generation of GNSS chipset that supports GPS, GLONASS, QZSS and SBAS satellite systems as well as leverages inertial sensors, WiFi and Bluetooth for indoor positioning.Called BCM4752,...
U.S. based Loctronix Corporation yesterday announced the successful first public demonstration of its indoor positioning technology Mobile Explorer Platform (MEP). MEP builds on the fusion of two technologies developed and patented by Loctronix: the...
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