GPS World articles from October 2004

GPS World archives from October 2004

HAZMAT keeps on truckin'.(THE VIEW FROM HERE)(editorial)(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... Most people don't like to be told what to do. Even if they aren't teenagers being instructed to clean up their rooms. Even if they agree with the goal of a directive, most people prefer to get there in their own time and in their own fashion....

Advisory board update.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... David Turner, director of the Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB) Secretariat, has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of GPS World. Turner holds a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from Syracuse University and a...

Mobile navigation a business travel priority.(GLOBAL VIEW)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Nearly 70 percent of business travelers say getting lost can negatively impact the outcome of their business meetings, and more than half reported that being lost was one of the worst things that can happen on a business trip. A recent survey...

Senate shortchanges HAZMAT tracking funds.(GLOBAL VIEW)
October 1, 2004... The U.S. Senate has approved a measure providing $2 million for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to develop measures for tracking trucks carrying hazardous materials (HAZMAT). That allocation followed the rejection of a more...

Bird's-eye view: GPS & micro aerial vehicles.(DESIGN CHALLENGE)
October 1, 2004... Use of GPS for navigation and guidance is usually associated with large vehicles such as cars, trucks, or jet airliners. This article, however, describes the development of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), a category of aircraft about the size of...

Trust your receiver? Enhancing location security.(INTEGRATION CHALLENGE)
October 1, 2004... Civil applications from hazardous materials tracking to network control that use a remote GNSS receiver to monitor location may require enhancing the trust of location acquisition, to assure that location data has not been spoofed or...

Combating the perfect storm: improving marine differential GPS accuracy with a wide-area network.(INNOVATION)
October 1, 2004... UNDER NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS, MARINE DIFFERENTIAL GPS (DGPS) HORIZONTAL POSITIONING accuracies on the order of several meters are achieved in North America. Such accuracies are well within the tolerance of 10 meters (95 percent confidence...

Honeywell acquires ERI for AJ.(GPS INSIDE)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Honeywell International of Plymouth, Minnesota, has acquired Electro-Radiation Inc. (ERI), a Fairfield, New Jersey-based developer of anti-jam (AJ) technology for GPS and other applications, for an undisclosed amount. The purchase included...

Allen Osborne bought by ITT.(GPS INSIDE)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Two longtime GPS industry companies are now one. White Plains, New York-based ITT Industries purchased Allen Osborne Associates (AOA), a Westlake Village, California, manufacturer of GPS systems for precise time and frequency transfer,...

SiRF partners with Korean Telecom, Galileo Consortium.(GPS INSIDE)
October 1, 2004... SiRF Technology has had a busy couple of months. The San Jose, California-based GPS manufacturer, which went public earlier this year, has seen its technology embedded in a popular Microsoft consumer product, entered a licensing and...

Spirent steers SimAUTO test.(LAUNCHES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Spirent Communications of Rockville, Maryland, has developed a SimAUTO test and evaluation solution for GPS and dead reckoning (DR) sensors such as compasses, gyros, and wheel pulses that are integrated into in-vehicle navigation systems...

U-blox unveils TIM-LA GPS receiver.(LAUNCHES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Thalwil, Switzerland-based u-blox AG has released its TIM-LA 16-channel GPS receiver macro component with a low-noise amplifier (LNA). TIM-LA provides two 3V (5V TTL input compatible) serial ports and boot time configuration pins. Designed...

Leica 1200 reference receivers.(LAUNCHES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Leica Geosystems of Heer-brugg, Switzerland, has introduced a new series of GPS reference station receivers. The GRX1200 and GRX1200Pro incorporate Leica's dual-frequency, 12-channel SmartTrack GPS measurement engine. The products are designed...

Trimble mobile iQ, regional network.(LAUNCHES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Trimble of Sunnyvale, California, released its Lassen iQ GPS receiver module for mobile devices. The 12-channel receiver is fully compatible with the Lassen SQ module, and features standard and enhanced signal sensitivity modes. Consuming...

Polstar GPS units for auto, marine.(LAUNCHES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Hsinchu City, Taiwan-based Polstar Technologies has developed an array of GPS-based devices for automobile and marine navigation applications. Polstar's PGM-101 high-sensitivity GPS module for weak-signal acquisition and tracking can...

Fastrax uPatch, iTrax partners.(LAUNCHES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Fastrax Ltd. of Helsinki, Finland, has introduced uPatch100, an ultra-compact OEM GPS receiver module integrating a patch antenna and operating at lowpower consumption levels, for portable tracking and navigation devices. Measuring 28 X 28 X 7...

Tyco picks SiGe, STMicro for LBS.(DEALS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Tyco Electronics of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, selected SiGe Semiconductor's SE4100 GPS radio integrated circuit (IC) for location-based services (LBS) modules for automotive and portable electronic devices. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada-based...

U-blox AG.(INDUSTRY BYTES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... IGlobe Partners of Frankfurt, Germany, has funded Thal-wil, Switzerland-based u-blox AG with nearly $1.6 million to further expand its GPS line-up by adding complementary technologies to its receiver chipsets, modules, boards and smart antennas...

Nemerix.(INDUSTRY BYTES)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Fabless semiconductor and GPS company Nemerix of Manno, Switzerland, has named Vincent Mouret as its CEO. Mouret was group vice president for marketing and R & D at Wavecom, a French wireless component developer, and previously held executive...

Munich Summit.(EVENTS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, March 8-10, 2005, will focus on global cooperation in satellite navigation. The meeting will explore business and funding impacts of the recent GPS/Galileo interoperability agreement and telecom and...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2004... The name of lead author Gunter Heinrichs was misspelled in "HIGAPS: A Highly Integrated Galileo/GPS Chipset for Consumer Applications," GPS World, September, 2004.

OEM software GPS receiver testbed.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
October 1, 2004... The NAVSYS SGR-Testbed is designed to provide a flexible platform to implement the NAVSYS Software Defined Radio-GPS Receiver, also available separately, without requiring the use of a separate embedded GPS chip-set. This design provides a...

Tri-band antenna.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
October 1, 2004... Model 3309 roof-mount antenna from Andrew operates in the GPS L1 frequency and both common cellular frequencies, AMPS 824-896 MHz and PCS 1850-1990 MHz. It offers resistance to wind noise and simple installation in a weather-resistant...

GPS-TPS receiver systems.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
October 1, 2004... Leica Geosystems' Leica GPS 1200 series receivers integrate a GPS measurement engine, self-checking real-time kinematic (RTK) algorithms, and a keyboard and touchscreen user interface. Fully compatible with Leica's TPS (Terrestrial Positioning...

High-precision OEM board.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
October 1, 2004... Thales Navigation offers the AC12 OEM board with raw GPS carrier phase observables as a standard feature, for high-precision applications constrained by cost and size. The 12-channel GPS receiver has up to two channels for SBAS...

OEM GPS splitter/combiner.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
October 1, 2004... GPS Source has developed an OEM GPS splitter/combiner incorporating the world's smallest coaxial splitter, manufactured by Tokyo, Japan-based Hirose. Featuring a 0.75 X 1.25 X 0.025 inch form factor and weighing less than 3 grams, the OEM GPS...

Thief relief: empowered by GPS and cellular technologies, new asset-tracking systems help local law enforcement combat crime rings and recover pilfered property.(LEADING EDGE)
October 1, 2004... Every 24 seconds, another vehicle is stolen in the United States. Every minute, 20 property crimes (robbery, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft) are committed, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime...

Calendar 2004.(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... * OCTOBER 13-15 InterGeo 2004 Stuttgart, Germany. See www.intergeo.de. * OCTOBER 18-22 Strapdown Inertial Course Minneapolis, Minnesota. See www.strapdownassociates.com. * OCTOBER 25-27 CTIA Wireless I.T. ...