Trade wars may be THE only serious limiting factor The GNSS chip market worldwide is projected to grow by $2.7 billion, guided by a compounded growth of 8%, to 2025, according to ResearchandMarkets. Other market reports cite “huge growth” and “strong development” in GNSS-related markets such as simulators, aviation and defense. We can count ourselves lucky — or remarkably prescient... read more
GIS ready to meet demands of IoT, smart cities The mapping industry has taken to UAVs — sort of. Put it this way: UAVs are only one tool in the GIS (geographic information system) toolbox. A third of our respondents (32%) say that UAVs will be used for less than 10% of field survey activity in the next three years.... read more
In transportation and machine control It’s hard to overstate the importance of inertial sensors in the transportation and machine control markets. For the second year, using inertial navigation systems (INS) to augment positioning was selected by the most respondents (43%) as the best additional solution for positioning in GPS/GNSS-challenged environments. Inertial measurement units are based on multi-axis combinations of precision... read more
Reversing norm, cedes initiative to civil side Nowhere is the interest in anti-jamming and anti-spoofing technology higher and more urgent than in the defense and security sectors. Overall, the anti-jamming market is about a tenth the size of the full GNSS market, but that still amounts to a considerable number. It is projected to grow at a slower rate than... read more
Different platform configurations rapidly emerge Drones continue to move further into everyday life and activity as they become more involved in applications that touch almost everyone. Previously a curious novelty, now unmanned aircraft are almost commonplace. Real Estate. Suppose you are buying a new house. Almost all the exterior home pictures and video on real-estate websites come from dones. The... read more
Real-time network availability grows in appeal, extent State of the GNSS Industry respondents who identified themselves as being from the survey sector constituted 28% of the total, roughly corresponding to the percentage of the magazine’s readership. In similar results to 2018’s study, the most promising and practical way to gain the increased accuracy that survey and other high-precision applications demands,... read more
Starting this year, new-generation GNSS-based landing systems — ground-based augmentation systems or GBAS — will be deployed at airports all around Europe to increase runway capacity by up to 6% in peak traffic periods, according to Indra, a key partner of the European GBAS Alliance. The GBAS technology allows aircrafts to make steeper approaches, which saves fuel and reduces noise... read more
Quectel Wireless Solutions Co. Ltd., in association with STMicroelectronics, has released the LG69T module, an automotive-grade dual-band high-precision GNSS module that integrates dead-reckoning (DR) and real-time kinematic (RTK) technologies. The new Quectel module, announced at 2019 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, is designed to facilitate open-sky positioning performance with an accuracy of up to 10 centimeters, which is currently the industry’s... read more
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