The 12-channel Placer Gold receiver is designed to provide reliable, fully configurable vehicle location and reporting for mission-critical automatic vehicle location (AVL) applications. Trimble’s Placer receivers are used by public safety and emergency responders to more efficiently locate and dispatch response vehicles. It features indicator lights, a small form factor, and compatibility with point-to-point protocol (PPP) data radios. The Placer Gold DRU’s on-board dead reckoning sensor outputs position data in the absence of satellite signal reception using a built-in angular rate sensor, a vehicle speed input, and a reverse signal input. This solution allows dispatchers to track vehicles through obstructed areas, such as tunnels, urban canyons, and mountains.