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Falling Prices Will Spur Innovation, Competition in High-Precision GNSS Market

The high-precision GNSS industry should expect to see industry consolidation and a scramble for new markets and innovations as prices for high-end chips and modules continue to slide, experts told attendees at a ION GNSS+ panel discussion in Tampa, Florida, last week (September 11, 2014). The falling prices could strain R&D budgets, they noted, but could also create opportunity as high-end receivers come within reach of emerging industries like self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and are even incorporated into consumer products.

18 September 2014 |

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GLONASS Union and China Satellite Navigation Office (CSNO) agree on initial joint pilot projects

Within the scope of the First China-Russia Expo and the First Russian-Chinese Satellite Navigation Forum, China's Satellite Navigation System Management Office (CSNO) and GLONASS Union held a conference on applications for satellite navigation. The meeting was moderated by GLONASS Union Vice President Evgeniy Belyanko and CSNO Deputy Director Yang Jun.

6 August 2014 |

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Nikolay Testoyedov: Farnborough-2014 went as expected

The Reshetnev Company has taken part in one of the world’s largest aviation and space exhibitions – Farnborough International Airshow. During Farnborough-2014 which was traditionally held in London on July 14-20, ISS-Reshetnev demonstrated to the global business community its recent advances and new promising developments in the field of space science and technology.

25 July 2014 |

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Opportunities in LBS consumer applications empowered by Galileo

The number and variety of Location Based Service (LBS) devices is on the rise: more than half of all mobile phones in Europe and North America are GNSS capable and global yearly shipments of GNSS-enabled LBS devices has grown from 150 million to 1bln over the last five years. How to ensure the European GNSS market capitalises on these opportunities was the topic of discussion at the European Space Solutions Conference.

24 July 2014 |

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Ninety-nine out of a hundred Moscow's buses and trolley buses are equipped with GLONASS

Moscow's Department of Transportation reported that ninety-nine out of a hundred Moscow's public above-ground transport has been equipped with GLONASS system.

7 November 2013 |

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The government decree on collection of tolls from heavy trucks

According to the signed decree heavy trucks will have to pay the toll for use of roads from the date of November 1, 2014.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

6 November 2013 |

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GLONASS ARTICLES

Visiting Navx: An Inside View Into Auto Content Curation

Not long ago GPS Business News had the opportunity to spend two days at Navx’s “Content Factory“ in Bucharest, Romania. Navx, headquartered in France, offers content to car makers and GPS navigation vendors.The briefings at their Content Factory was an interesting experience that offered an insight view into their core business: providing verified, quality content to the auto industry: fuel prices, parking data and electric vehicle charging in tens of countries. Navx mixes automated data processing with a sizeable amount of manual verifications, i.e. between 5,000 and 8,000 phone calls are made per month to verify the data accuracy.

Best apps for navigating indoors: satnav without satellites

How to find your way around airports, shopping malls and other large indoor spaces.We all use satnavs, but they don’t work indoors. We investigate some apps and new technology that could help us find our way in airports, shopping malls and any large buildings. It’s a first-world problem, but a problem nevertheless: How do you navigate an indoor space when GPS does not work? While it may not yet be ideal, as with everything these days, there’s an app for that – or rather several apps. President of the Royal Institute of Navigation, Dr Roger MacKinley, explained why GPS does not work for indoor navigation:

China to Join Effort on Aircraft Satnav Standards

Europe’s EGNOS augmentation system sharpens the accuracy and reliability of GPS signals so they can safely be used for landing approaches across a growing number of European airports. But aviation is a global enterprise — so the aim is to develop a seamless network of augmentation systems in future. That is the task of an international group of experts, the Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) Interoperability Working Group (IWG), whose 27th meeting took place in Tampa, Florida, September 8-10, hosted by the Institute of Navigation.

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