AirQuay and Finland-based Quuppa recently partnered to offer location-based solutions in manufacturing, warehousing, healthcare and sports facilities in the Republic of Korea. AirQuay, a real-time location systems company based in Korea, offers the SmartSpace platform that tracks assets and people.
The companies plan to integrate Quuppa’s...
Reports says PNT Oversight Council prioritized modernizing the existing GPS, not alternatives
A U.S. Government Accountability Office report claims that the U.S. Defense Department has not made a complete business case for its positioning, navigation and timing alternatives to back up GPS.
The report, released...
EMCORE Corp. EMKR -5.58%↓ has acquired KVH Industries’ KVHI 2.30%↑ Fiber Optic Gyroscope and Inertial Navigation Systems business segment today for $55 million in cash.
EMCORE, which offers mixed-signal products for aerospace and defense communications, said the deal includes all of KVH’s FOG and INS intellectual property...
Several industry companies displayed technology at this week’s Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO) conference in Anaheim, Calif. NextNav NN 15.17%↑, which recently partnered with public safety company CentralSquare Technologies, displayed its Pinnacle vertical location network.
The deal with CentralSquare is big as the company works with...
Xona Space Systems announced last week that they have raised “an oversubscribed financing round” that brings the company’s total funding to more than $25 million. In this latest round, led by First Spark Ventures, such companies as Lockheed Martin Ventures LMT -0.50%↓, SRI Ventures, Velvet Sea...
Incognia has announced the publication of the results of their first Location Spoofing Mobile App study: Dating Edition. The study attempted to see how mobile dating apps are vulnerable to location spoofing.
The report studied 24 dating mobile apps worldwide including: Tinder, Hinge, eHarmony, Match, OkCupid, Grindr and others. ...
Announcement comes days after Thales IoT business merges with Telit...
Internet of Things solutions provider Semtech Corp. SMTC 0.46%↑ has acquired Canada-based Sierra Wireless SWIR 0.16%↑ for $1.2 billion. Semtech purchased Sierra Wireless shares at $31 each in an all-cash deal.
The companies say the acquisition combines two big...
Israel-based Innoviz Technologies INVZ 2.14%↑ announced this week that it has won a $4 billion contract from a Volkswagen Group unit to supply lidar and software across its automotive brands. The deal, which is expected to take eight years, will supply lidar for around 5...
OneNav said it averaged six times better accuracy than “a leading Android smartwatch” in recent side-by-side test results that compared its pureL5 GNSS receiver customer evaluation system.
The company said it used only GNSS measurements in the tests, which were conducted in a...
U.K. May Need To Find Replacement for Galileo
The $3.4 billion merger of OneWeb and Paris-based Eutelsat may allow the companies to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, but may have put a damper on the opportunity for the United Kingdom to build its own...
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