GNSS for Marine and Maritime Applications Over 70% of the Earth’s surface is oceans, seas, and other waterways. So it’s no surprise that there’s an enormous market for GNSS applications focused on marine and maritime use cases, from navigation to asset tracking: Vessel Navigation and Open Sea Routing Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Collision Avoidance...

Use a Global Design to SKU the Market for Your Cellular Products Twenty-five years ago, the cellular market was fragmented by the competing standards of GSM, CDMA, TDMA, and UMTS. That made it difficult and cost-prohibitive to build a single-SKU device that could be sold worldwide. Then the industry standardized on LTE for 4G, and...

Attention to Detail: Leveraging Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Technology to Maximize GNSS Precision GPS accuracy has come a long way since the system was opened to non-military applications in 1983. Civilian GPS receivers initially were limited to an accuracy of about 330 feet (100 meters) until 2000, when that restriction was eliminated. Another improvement was additional...

LTE Cat 1 bis Explained: The Future of IoT Connectivity Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies are a subset of LTE designed for IoT applications that prioritize low hardware costs, ultra-long battery life, and global coverage. Most LPWA technologies are geared toward low-bandwidth applications such as asset trackers, pet trackers, utility meters, and agricultural sensors....

Understanding Ground Planes for Cellular and GNSS Devices The antenna ground plane is a key component in cellular and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) devices. It plays a major role in the performance and reliability of both the device and all of the applications that run on it. That means it also directly affects the revenue...