Second generation (G2) satellites for the European Galileo navigation system have been approved for the first 12 of the new fleet.
Two independent review boards have confirmed that the satellites meet mission and performance requirements, ESA said. The first board met in...
Saying its signal is 1,000 times more powerful than GPS, Iridium Communications IRDM -2.03%↓ has announced expanded commercial availability of its Satellite Time and Location (STL) service. STL, an alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) solution, will be sold by Iridium partners in parts of...
HERE, AWS Release Transportation and Logistics Whitepaper
HERE Technologies, with Amazon Web Services, has released a transportation and logistics whitepaper that reveals the challenges faced by fleet managers. The study, conducted by ABI Research, includes responses from 300 T&L decision-makers across the...
Company has burned through $8.2 billion since 2017, hopes to restart testing
There is hope for Cruise, the robotaxi company that was forced to cease operations after one of its driverless cars hit a pedestrian in San Francisco last October. That...
San Francisco area-based Life360 LIF 6.41%↑ last week announced the pricing of its initial public offering in the U.S. of 5,750,000 shares of common stock. The company owns Tile, which offers tracking devices with a mobile app to track people, pets and valuables.
The company, which...
Telematics company CalAmp has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a debt-cutting deal that places control of the company with lender Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP.
The company estimated that while its assets were about $281.2 million—it’s liabilities totaled $355.4 million. The...
Targeting real-time location system (RTLS) service providers and integrators, u-blox last week launched u-locate. The indoor positioning solution, based on Bluetooth LE angle-of-arrival (AoA), delivers positioning accuracy levels down to 10 centimeters, the company said.
The company said the targeted RTLS and systems...
Miovision Selects TomTom to Power Traffic Signal Solutions
TomTom has been selected by Miovision to improve signal analytics and in-vehicle solutions with traffic data and real-time/historic traffic flow information. Miovision will use TomTom’s Junction Analytics product, that determines the number of vehicles passing through...
U.S. government also taking a $17 million bite out of transportation PNT efforts…
Reacting to worldwide jamming incidents and other GPS interference, the U.S. Defense Department is asking $1.5 billion for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) resiliency programs as part of its fiscal...
Comtech CMTL -0.45%↓ has announced that it signed a contract, which could potentially be worth more than $250 million, with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for continued operation and maintenance of the state’s Next Generation 911 (NG911) system.
Comtech signs NG911 deal that could be worth $250 million...