Location-as-a-Service Could Be Industry’s Most Comprehensive (Image: u-blox)
Innovative Service Targets Most Location Markets
Thalwil, Switzerland-based u-blox has announced it will soon launch a Location-as-a-Service that incorporates its recently introduced PointPerfect, AssistNow, CloudLocate and CellLocate products. While PointPerfect brings GNSS to a mass market, the other...
Photo: DDK Positioning GNSS Augmentation Service on Iridium Satellites (Photo: Iridium)
Oceaneering International and DDK Positioning Limited have announced that they are partnering on GNSS augmentation services using Oceaneering’s C-Nav Positioning Solutions products.
DDK Positioning services, delivered through the Iridium satellite communications network, integrate hardware developed by Topcon.
Initially, DDK...
Reuters: TomTom Posted Quarterly Net Loss For The Last Two Years
Citing the worldwide shortage of semiconductor chips that have curbed automotive markets, TomTom said the company will cut its 2021 outlook.
TomTom posted a loss of 23.6 million euros, nearly 8 million...
New research from HERE Technologies and Frost & Sullivan indicate that approximately a third of logistics companies in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region are considering IoT (37 percent), warehouse automation (33 percent), and electric vehicles (32 percent) as key investment priorities in...
Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet Holdings has acquired CARMERA to roll it into its Automated Mapping Platform (AMP) organization. CARMERA, which specializes in road intelligence and automated mobility, will allow AMP to shift from an R&D stage to commercialization by boosting the development of HD maps,...
Hexagon AB has acquired Immersal Oy, a spatial mapping company that uses visual positioning products for augmented reality (AR) applications. Hexagon said that AR has the ability to “weave context-specific, 3D information into physical spaces provides endless opportunities.”
These opportunities include surveying,...
Sierra Wireless said its IoT tracking product, Acculink, has been integrated with Microsoft Azure IoT Central to allow companies to track the location and condition of high-value and sensitive assets.
Acculink is now integrated with Azure IoT Central to bundle both the...
In an article titled, “Wireless Transportation Disruption,” veteran industry analyst Roger Lanctot hammers Washington, D.C.-based trade group ITS America and its affiliates as being “disconnected from automakers, wireless carriers, and technology companies.”
The reason? The reallocation of wireless spectrum by the FCC last year to shift...
5G Rapidly Becoming Mainstream for Location, Autonomous Vehicle Services
Halo has launched a commercial driverless car service using the T-Mobile 5G network in Las Vegas. The company, which has operated on the T-Mobile 5G network since the beginning of the year, is...
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