A recent activity with TDE and Hitachi Rail in Italy, has developed a testbed simulator to see how GNSS can be utilised on a railway.

The Sim4Rail Project developed, verified, validated, installed and commissioned a simulation testbed, suitable for the of GNSS Performance in a Railway Environment, at the ESA/ESTEC TEC Navigation Laboratory. In the frame of this activity, laboratory software tools have been developed …

CCTech has announced the addition of HVAC-Twin to Bentley Systems’ powered by iTwin program. HVAC-Twin enables quick turnaround between HVAC design iterations—leading to energy and cost-efficient HVAC designs. Designers and engineers can add sensor data, make connections, and start visualizing data such as temperature, occupancy, and CO2 levels—to diagnose and improve the performance of HVAC …

Satellite positioning (GNSS) is used by many critical functions in society, such as the construction sector, rescue services, the finance industry, telecommunications networks and electrical grids. However, GNSS signals are weak and therefore sensitive to interference. Interference can be caused by, for example, the environment and atmosphere (particularly the ionosphere) or various unintentional equipment malfunctions. …

Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital reality solutions combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, has announced a key partnership with ZF Group that will advance the integration of its software positioning engine and GNSS correction services into mass-production ADAS (advanced driver assistance system) and autonomous driving systems. Hexagon’s safety-certifiable software positioning engine and correction …

On Dec. 20, u-blox banned the use of its GNSS modules in military UAVs in the war between Russia and Ukraine. The company had become aware that its GNSS modules were being used in certain Russian reconnaissance UAVs and stated that this use was against company policy.

U-blox obtained media reports that Russia had stocked up on components …