The u-blox customer Freefly has with its ALTA 8 opened up new possibilities for most demanding customers who want to carry the largest cinema payloads on the market. Freefly makes full use of the centimeter level GNSS positioning capabilities of the u-blox NEO-M8P. To learn more about NEO-M8P, go to www.u-blox.com/product/neo-m8p. To learn more about…

Courtesy of www.u-blox.com Thalwil, Switzerland and Tokyo, Japan – October 10, 2016 – Nikken Lease has tapped into cutting‑edge positioning and cellular technologies from u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, for its new trackable pallet, Transeeker. Transeeker is a pallet equipped with u‑blox’s cellular and positioning technologies for accurate tracking:…

Courtesy of www.mynewsdesk.com Telenor and Q-Free will be first in Norway to use the new communication technology Narrow-band Internet of Things. A pilot for smart parking will be launched in the city of Trondheim. This is the first step towards a full scale commercial network for the Internet of things. The smart parking spaces belong to…

Courtesy of Alpha Micro – www.newsroom.alphamicro.net At around 20,000 km above the Earth’s surface there are now at least 55 satellites in orbit, forming two Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); GPS (also known as Navstar, and owned and operated by the US) and GLONASS (owned and operated by Russia). These will soon be joined by the…

October 4, 2016  – By Cecile Mongredien, Chris Hide, Peter Fairhust and Daniel Ammann  Courtesy of www.gpsworld.com UAVs, precision agriculture and robotic guidance require high accuracy at low cost. Emerging high-volume markets call for RTK technologies previously limited to niche markets by complexity and cost. This article discusses design and implementation of a very precise RTK-based module…

By Philip E. Ross – Courtesy of www.spectrum.ieee.org Superaccurate GPS may soon solve three robocar bugbears—blurred lane markings, bad weather, and over-the-horizon blind spots. These are things lidar and radar often can’t see, see through, or see around. A group led by Todd Humphreys, an aerospace engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, has just tested a software-based system that can run on processors in today’s cars, using data from scattered…

Autonomous driving vehicles are on the road today. To name just a couple of examples, Volvo has already launched autonomous driving trials on the streets of Gothenburg, close to its headquarters, and has announced plans to extend trials to London and China. Google’s self‑driving cars, on the other hand, have amassed close to two million…

Example use cases and understanding the regulatory challenges of incorporating wireless connectivity into medical devices – White Paper Author: Pelle Svensson Product Marketing Manager, Product Center Short Range Radio, u-blox Abstract: This paper discusses some use cases as well as the challenges related to achieving certifications and approvals for medical devices that contain wireless modules, and how manufacturers…

Courtesy of www.pcworld.com AT&T, Verizon, and chip makers are aiming at lower speeds and longer battery life with LTE Category M1 IoT data platform company Buddy had a model smart city in its booth at IoT World in Santa Clara, California, on May 11, 2016. Credit: Stephen Lawson To get small, low-power IoT devices online, it’s…