By Franck Boynton, VP and CTO We were asked to help validate vehicle coordinates and orientation of ground-based targets in a test environment outdoors. INS was not to be used for vehicle orientation. The idea was to model ground-based targets that could change orientation after moving from one location to the other between missions. The […]

Power Utility Asset Mapping using GPS. NavtechGPS has helped several power line mapping companies significantly improve their asset mapping capabilities of existing GIS collection systems. The goal was to retro fit existing Geographic Information Systems with GPS/GNSS components to significantly increase mapping accuracy by collecting data points faster and with greater precision. Because NavtechGPS is […]

NavtechGPS has helped its customers pinpoint GPS jamming sources that cause equipment problems, even when others could not. On one particular occasion, our customer asked us to identify the external source of their GPS equipment interference. They noticed that every time their high accuracy GPS equipment neared a certain area on their property, it stopped […]

By Franck Boynton, VP and CTO We were tasked to help with the development of a video game that could actually follow the movements of Formula One race cars in real time during actual races. The goal was to give the gamer the ability to access metrics of an actual F1 car during a live […]

By Franck Boynton, VP and CTO Although we enjoy working with all of our customers, some projects just really are more fun than others. This was one of those projects. In March 2000, on the way back from a project where we were assisting with a military application, I got a call asking if I […]

RF Networking/DAS. NavtechGPS understands the intricacies of installing custom GPS/GNSS RF networking/DAS antenna systems because we have been doing it for 20+ years. The networking systems we install are either cable-in, directly to your GNSS receiver, or transmitted over the air to the receiver. They can cover a very large space or small bench area. […]

2018 finds driverless cars in various advanced testing stages—with multiple companies focused on bringing driverless cars to public roads. Much of that progress results from an innovative race that began in 2004, The DARPA Grand Challenge. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with the goal of accelerating the development of autonomous vehicle technology, […]

Today, many municipalities across the United States and in Canada, employ the autoChalk™ digital chalking and license plate recognition (LPR) system developed by Tannery Creek Systems Inc. Before autoChalk, parking enforcement meant manually chalking the tires of parked cars by law enforcement officials to see if the cars overstayed the meter — an expensive use […]

The Insitu Inc., ScanEagle™ is an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) used for reconnaissance. The Integrator™ UAS is similar to the ScanEagle™, but can carry out longer missions with larger payloads which can be easily integrated into the vehicle. While the ScanEagle™ project was still in its formative years, NavtechGPS was asked to find a suitable GPS […]

NavtechGPS played a small but critical role in the development of the Boomerang. The Boomerang is a state-of the-art shooter detection system developed by Raytheon BBN Technologies to precisely locate incoming small arms fire, primarily from snipers. Often, troops in noisy Humvees (HMMWV) in combat arenas like Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t know they were being […]