This week’s ITS America’s Annual Meeting in Charlotte, N.C., featured a number of private companies exhibiting connected and autonomous vehicle solutions that were predominately tailored to city and state governments.
Fleet telematics giant Geotab, with access to one of the world’s largest...
Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning and Mining divisions have announced the development of an automated road-train solution with Australia’s Mineral Resources Limited (MRL), a mining services company.
The Hexagon product, to be deployed on MRL’s long-range haulage fleet, will integrate drive by-wire technology with an autonomous management...
In a $316 million contract option, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is acquiring additional BAE Systems’ advanced M-Code GPS modules. This raises total contract funding to $641 million.
The modules provide positioning, navigation, and timing for ground troops, vehicles, aircraft, and precision munitions....
Company Integrates Latest Navigation Technology
Saying that vehicle software development can be slow and expensive, Dutch mapmaker TomTom has announced its TomTom IndiGO, an open digital cockpit software platform for automakers.
The platform, launched this week in a splashy video...
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) recently announced that Energy Systems Network, the organizer of the Indy Autonomous Challenge, will host a head-to-head, high-speed autonomous racecar passing competition at CES 2022. The Autonomous Challenge @ CES will take place at...
Holland-based KCS BV said it has sold more than 500,000 TraceMe LoRa and other tracking units. KCS, which announced the milestone in the third quarter, has been selling the units since 2015.
The company said that customers switching from traditional...
San Mateo, Calif.-based Xona Space Systems and StarNav have partnered to develop user equipment, based on Xona’s Pulsar service, that will provide produce resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT) products for commercial and government end users.
Riverside, Calif.-based StarNav is developing PNT user equipment to leverage...
GPS' Capabilities Span 13-16 Critical Infrastructure Areas
A panel of GPS experts this week outlined how easy the satellite system can be compromised and called for signal protection, jamming-resistant equipment and backup terrestrial measures. Many of the panel concerns were...
While not directly talking about location technology, Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon said, at a company investor’s meeting, that car companies are becoming tech companies that will be always be connected. Amon said that while the company has always focused on...
CalAmp says supply chain shortages will lower the company’s “shipment expectations” for the second half of the year, causing a quarterly loss.
Jeff Gardner, CalAmp's president and CEO, said the company expected to ship 20 percent more devices in the...
