BROWSING: GPS

Amid renewed conversations around the re-authorization of the Federal Communications Commission's auction authority for spectrum and what a new spectrum pipeline might look like, the Aspen Institute brought together government and private-sector stakeholders to work on a framework and action plan for a national...

Ligado Networks has cancelled plans to begin a 5G trial network that would have operated in northern Virginia and was expected to begin operations shortly. Ligado had planned to begin operations in airwaves at 1526–1536 MHz by September 30, according to a status update...

Spending on IoT-based asset tracking solutions, for monitoring goods in transit, will reach $45 billion globally by 2027, according to Juniper Research. The total spend will jump from $16 billion in 2022, representing growth of 184 percent over the five-year period. It said the...

5G drives higher speed, lower latency and greater capacity than 4G LTE networks, making it critical across industries globally. We have just started scratching the surface of the type of new use cases that become possible through 5G’s innovation potential. While the rollout of 5G...

'Today, the fully autonomous portion is just tillage; tomorrow it may be planting, and after that it may be spraying,' the manager of John Deere’s StarFire Network Al Savage told RCR Wireless News at CES The most impressive thing about the 40,000-pound tractor that John...

Digitalization probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about concrete. But Thomas Concrete Group recognized that digital transformation through IoT enablement would be an important step to improve customer experience, and the company’s ability to scale. As we learned...

Singapore-based Sigfox operator and IoT service provider UnaBiz is providing low-power GPS trackers to monitor Asian black bears in Japan, and help keep the peace with local residents. The company is working with the Picchio Wildlife Research Centre, a wildlife tour operator and conservation company...

Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been at it for decades, already: connecting machines, processing data, bringing intelligence into the field....

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Tower industry booms NEW...

Test company Rohde & Schwarz and digitalization and software company Fieldforce are partnering to integrate test capabilities with Fieldforce's digital workflow management. Basit Malik, founder and CEO of Fieldforce, said that as its customers were deploying 5G, the company noticed that they were taking pictures...

Verizon is deploying real-time kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation on its 5G network in the US, to offer hyper-precise positioning with centimetre-level location accuracy for IoT tracking services, and notably development of drone deliveries and autonomous vehicles. Standard GPS positioning affords location accuracy of three-to-nine metres;...

  The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on granting Ligado Networks permission to use its midband spectrum holdings to deploy a combined satellite-and-terrestrial network for private 5G and industrial internet of things services. The FCC said it was circulating a draft order to approve...

French IoT chipmaker Sequans has announced it will embed ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) software to its LTE-M and NB-IoT Monarch platform, creating a IoT location solution that does not require GPS/ GNSS, or other radios for positioning. It has worked with C-LoC Polte...

Vodafone has completed the first live tests in Europe of a full cellular system for both short and long-range vehicular communications, as well as for monitoring and managing multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the same air space. The UK operator teamed with Jaguar Land...

According to research done by consulting firm Deloitte, meat consumption in the USA is on the rise. Consumption will reach 545 million tons by 2050 up from 367 in 2015. There will be a continuous demand for ways to help the livestock farming industry...

Anritsu has added 2x2 multiple-input multiple-output testing capabilities for 802.11ac to its MT8862A test equipment and says that with new software, it can test 2x2 MIMO on Wi-Fi equipment under "actual operating conditions," along with output signal quality, transmit power and receiver sensitivity. Two of...

Smart parking and mobility partnership envisions integration of sensors to enable autonomous parking Cisco and French company Valeo have signed a cooperation agreement to develop strategic innovations in smart mobility services. The collaboration between the two firms enables vehicles equipped with Valeo smart parking technology...

The French firm’s IoT network provides coverage in 31 countries. French IoT firm Sigfox has unveiled a new “GPS-free” internet of things geolocation service designed to allow companies to track assets around the world. Enabled by Sigfox’s network, which currently is available in parts of...

More types of devices are relying on the ability to access satellite systems for positioning information, and that means more testing for GPS and Global Navigation Satellite System support. Spirent Communications this week launched PT TestBench, which is new software for selecting and automating GPS and GNSS...

Intel and Here to collaborate on proof-of-concept for autonomous vehicles and IoT. Intel has agreed to purchase a 15% stake in Here, a global provider of digital maps and location-based services for automotive and the “internet of things.” The deal will see...

Ligado, which previously operated under the LightSquared name, scored a deal with GPS device maker Topcon in bid to gain access to L-Band spectrum. Ligado Networks efforts to free up its midband spectrum resources continues to roll forward, with the firm recently...

Landscape companies often struggle to reconcile customers’ billable hours with employee labor hours – especially when using manual time cards to record the data. To improve billing accuracy, S&S Landscaping needed a way to document driver arrival and departure times at customer sites. They...

Landscape companies often struggle to reconcile customers’ billable hours with employee labor hours – especially when using manual time cards to record the data. To improve billing accuracy, S&S Landscaping needed a way to document driver arrival and departure times at customer sites. They...

Column updated to correct information on game features Catching the little Pokémon creatures has caught on like the Hula-Hoop, with the real benefit of the game getting people to use augmented reality We’ve all heard a lot in the news about the rage that’s taken over...