New 72-Satellite Constellation Has Tracking Capability
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Phantom Space Corporation has signed an agreement with IoT provider Ingenu to build and launch a 72-satellite constellation called AFNIO that would provide smart city and asset tracking capability.
Ingenu will host their Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) IIot payloads on the satellites that also provide products for smart grid, factory, oil and gas monitoring, mining and other market niches.
The company said the majority of the satellites are expected to launch on Phantom's Daytona launch vehicle set to first launch in 2023.
Ingenu, which developed and operates a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) platform for IoT technology for IoT, is on more than 50 worldwide terrestrial networks.
Contact: William Schmidt, Ingenu, wschmidt@ingenu.com, www.ingenu.com.
Facebook Selects u-blox GNSS Receiver
Thalwil, Switzerland-based u-blox [UBXN] has announced that Facebook has chosen its ZED-F9T GNSS receiver module for their timekeeping product. Facebook’s Time Card, by improving synchronization of network computers, can speed up performance of data centers and distributed databases, the company said.
Facebook used the u-blox GNSS receiver to sync up their solution with the highly accurate atomic clocks onboard GNSS satellites—with a backup of a miniaturized atomic clock in the Time Card, the company said. Facebook decided to open-source the design of their Time Card, which fits onto a PCIe form factor, the company said.
The Swiss company says their GNSS receiver opens new avenues in industry segments that rely on highly synchronized signals, such as 5G network base stations. The base stations “require tighter synchronization than those of previous generations,” u-blox said.
Contact: Natacha Seitz, u-blox, 41 76 436 0788,
natacha.seitz@u-blox.com.
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NextNav and Satelles Partner on San Francisco PNT Testbed
NextNav and Satelles have partnered on an alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) testbed in the San Francisco Bay Area. The testbed, which is designed and managed by NextNav with a timing source from Satelles, will create PNT testing scenarios and conditions for GNSS, the company said.
NextNav used the testbed to access the TerraPoiNT network in a GPS-denied environment using STL from Satelles as its timing source, the company said. The demonstration, for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), showed timing synchronization better than 50 nanoseconds in urban and semi-urban settings, the company said.
Location Business News covered the U.S. Department of Transportation technology demonstration report, which categorized TerraPoiNT from NextNav and STL from Satelles as the top-ranked PNT system.
In June 2021, NextNav entered into a merger agreement with Spartacus Acquisition Corp. [TMTS] that allows the company to be listed on Nasdaq.
Contact: Kirk Vespestad, Satelles, (703) 282-1800, kvespestad@satelles.com.
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🤞 Comtech Announces Leadership Transition. Amid flap with a private investor, president and COO Michael Porcelain to become CEO by calendar year end.
😮 Qualcomm Acquires Veoneer for $4.5 Billion, Canceling Its Agreement With Magna. Qualcomm jumps into deep end of automotive pool.
✔ UK Announces National Space Strategy. “We will also ensure our Critical National Infrastructure can rely on a wide range of resilient space technologies. The five military operational domains are: maritime, land, air, space, and cyber National Space Strategy, including Position, Navigation and Timings services.”
🛩 India Eases Drone Rules With Vision To Become ‘Global Drone Hub’ by 2030.
🏭 Huawei’s 5G Indoor Positioning Shows Promising Results in Midea’s Factories.
🛰 Space Data Used To Detect Sources of GPS Disruptions.
🙂 KORE Debuts on NYSE After Closing Merger with Cerberus Telecom Acquisition. “Tim Donahue, former Executive Chairman of Sprint Nextel and former CEO of CTAC, has become the Chairman of the KORE Board of Directors.”
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Hexagon/NovAtel GAJT Product Line Displayed at AUSA
Hexagon/NovAtel’s GAJT-710 GPS Anti-Jam Technology (GAJT) product line was displayed at the AUSA 2021 meeting in Washington, D.C. The new jammer direction-finding enables situational awareness while a silent mode feature reduces its thermal signature, the company said.
These improvements, including enhanced anti-jam GNSS tracking performance, are achieved while maintaining the same form and fit as the previous generation, the company said.
HERE and Bosch Announce Air Quality Findings
HERE Technologies and Bosch have announced their recent activities to improve air quality in the London Borough of Lambeth with Transport for London (TfL). The first step to enable Environmentally Sensitive Traffic Management was to use probe data from HERE. This data was essential to understanding the dynamic flow of vehicles passing through the Brixton neighborhood and to model the emissions emitted.
HERE probe data and TfL traffic volumes were then collected for traffic analysis and included in a dispersion calculation that considered the impact of topology and weather on air quality, the company said. This resulted in a high-accuracy emission heatmap of Brixton town centre, accurate down to 20 meters, to allow traffic managers to better understand and adapt their traffic mitigation solutions, the company said.
Contact: Adrianne Montgobert, HERE Technologies, 49 151 72 11 67 81, adrianne.montgobert@here.com.
MiX Telematics Partners With Ford
MiX Telematics [MIXT] has collaborated with Ford Pro Intelligence to provide MiX North America customers, who operate Ford vehicles, with richer data sets to enable better-informed decisions regarding safety, efficiency, and compliance, the company said. In the long-term, it will also potentially eliminate the need for the installation of aftermarket hardware in vehicles, the company said.
Contact: Melanie Esterhuizen, MiX Telematics, 46 72 369 6703, melanie.esterhuizen@mixtelematics.com, www.mixtelematics.com.
Sewio Launches New 1D Indoor Tracking
Sewio, a UWB-based real-time location system (RTLS) vendor, today released Sewio RTLS 2.5., allowing for 1D tracking with directional antenna. The 1D tracking brings in full visibility into narrow aisles with unmatched cost-effectiveness.
1D tracking with directional antennas may revolutionize the indoor location market services by enabling high accuracy with fewer receivers and less cabling to decrease project costs, the company said.
Contact: Sewio, www.sewio.net/sewio-rtls-2-5-first-rtls-in-the-world-to-enable-full-visibility-into-narrow-aisles-with-unmatched-cost-effectiveness.
Vaisala’s Road Weather Service Selected by TomTom
Vaisala has announced an agreement with TomTom to bring insights and actionable road weather data to the TomTom Hazard Warnings service.
TomTom Hazard Warnings creates signals that alert drivers and automated vehicles to safety critical incidents as they happen, the company said. These incidents include traffic, weather, and road hazards.
Contact: Kendra Westerkamp, MAPRagency, (720) 261-2300, kwesterkamp@mapr.agency.
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NextNav Names Gillian Smith as Vice President of Marketing
NextNav has added to its executive leadership by bringing in Gillian Smith as vice president of marketing. Prior to NextNav, Gillian led marketing programs with companies and non-profit organizations including Coca-Cola, Burger King, and served as the first chief marketing officer for both City Year, and Teach For America.
Contact, Chelsea Hoedl, for NextNav, NextNav@launchsquad.com.
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