Construction and agriculture equipment giant CNH Industrial CNHI 0.00 has entered into an agreement to purchase Hemisphere GNSS from China-based Unistrong for an estimated $175 million. The company said that Hemisphere, when combined with its Raven agriculture brand, will give it...
Opens opportunities for developers of IoT tracking and monitoring
Amazon AMZN 0.42%↑ announced this week that it is opening its Sidewalk LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) network to IoT developers. Sidewalk, which covers more than 90 percent of the U.S. population, not only links smart home...
Geotab USA will defend its U.S. Postal Service contract award, which provides advanced telematics fleet-tracking devices to its vehicles, in a court protest filed by Samsara IOT 1.63%↑ last week, according to Bloomberg.
Samsara protesting USPO telematics award (Photo: Pexels).
Judge Thompson Dietz of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, in a scheduling...
TomTom has announced that more than 10 million automated vehicles sold by carmakers in North America and Europe are powered by its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) maps and software. The company, which counts 30 automotive brands as customers...
Hivemapper has announced that it has collected more than 1 million kilometers of unique street-level imagery. The company says it has done this in just the past three months—and noted it took Google Street View GOOG -0.68%↓ more than five times as long to...
EU Report Stresses Importance of GNSS Alternatives for PNT
The European Union’s Joint Research Centre released a new report highlighting its 2021-2022 tests of Alternative Position, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) technologies. Seven companies’ technologies were tested to address vulnerabilities and serve as a complement to GNSS, which...
Company's location technology to be part of government tracking system
Comtech CMTL 0.40%↑ has announced that it has been awarded a $29 million contract from Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. for communications technologies and location services that will operate on Yahsat’s Thuraya 4-NGS satellite constellation.
Comtech...
T-Mobile TMUS -1.35%↓ has partnered with AAA to provide connectivity for the organization’s roadside assistance fleets nationwide. Under the terms of the agreement, T-Mobile will use Geotab fleet telematics solutions to provide AAA roadside assistance fleet managers with data and reports on driver behavior, route optimization,...
Gurtam has announced that its Wialon telematics and IoT platform has enabled more than 3.5 million units connected worldwide. When counting connected vehicles and other assets, Gurtam claims Wailon it is now the largest fleet management platform in the world.
These numbers include...
Lidar company Luminar LAZR -6.90%↓ has been accused of passing off a future chip design as its own technology at a recent investor conference, according to Forbes. Israeli startup LidWave sent a cease-and-desist letter to Luminar last week asking it to remove the image from its...
