May 3, 2021 Speaking for pretty much everyone, it’s fair to say this has been a long winter and an even longer year. We handled the global pandemic and resulting shutdown in different ways. Some people started crosswords, some people picked up the phone and rebuilt old relationships, others tried building boats (guilty). And an overwhelming many reached deep into their closet, dusted off their hiking shoes and went to what seemed to be the […]

Partnership with Fujitsu will help city track bicycles, e-scooters and ridesharing companies  The mobility department of Munich, Germany, has selected Hexagon Geospatial to implement a smart monitoring system to better manage and understand the impacts of shared mobility services in the city.  Hexagon will partner with Fujitsu to provide Munich a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for tracking, visualizing and analyzing internet of things (IoT) data from a variety of mobility providers. The solution will monitor shared […]

Photo: uAvionix uAvionix Corp has launched its first autopilot for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), named George. At 80 grams, George is a low size, weight and power (SWaP) certifiable solution for enterprise operations and those wishing to type certify their UAS. It is manufactured in the United States. Built around the open-source autopilot Cube from CubePilot, George combines Cube with Design Assurance Level C (DAL-C) hardware and safety and sensor monitoring, enabling customers to meet […]

April 22, 2021 By Garmin Ambassador Baylee Rayl Along with a host of other features, the new Garmin Venu® 2 and Venu® 2S sport activity profiles for HIIT workouts, including preloaded HIIT workouts with on-screen animations and custom timers to help ensure that every second counts. To help you get ready for the new workout opportunities coming to your wrist, Garmin ambassador and CrossFit athlete Baylee Rayl outlines different kinds of HIIT activities, the benefits […]

Adva’s OSA 5405-MB provides nanosecond timing at a network’s edge. (Photo: Business Wire) Adva has launched the OSA 5405-MB, a compact outdoor precision time protocol (PTP) grandmaster clock with multi-band GNSS receiver and integrated antenna. Part of the OSA 5405 series of smart synchronization devices for indoor or outdoor deployment, the OSA 5405-MB ensures timing accuracy by eliminating the impact of ionospheric delay variation. This empowers communication service providers and enterprises to deliver the nanosecond […]

April 26, 2021 If you love the Garmin Connect Badges and the hard work that goes into earning the newest one, you’re going to love our new Garmin Connect Badge Challenges. This new Garmin Connect feature offers a way for you to keep acquiring new badges all month long. You can rise to the challenge every day, pushing yourself further to beat yesterday.  You need to opt-in and join each Badge Challenge to earn the […]

Central Italy — already home to an ambitious national autonomous driving research initiative — will be the site of the P-CARS laboratory, intended to certify positioning devices for use within driverless cars. The new P-CARS laboratory is financed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) through the Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP) of the European Space Agency. The lab will support the goals of EMERGE, a public-private partnership for innovation established in 2018 between Italy’s Ministry […]

April 22, 2021 Dear Body, Tonight I’m going to go to bed earlier — no more binging episodes or endless scrolling. Tomorrow we’ll start out feeling fresh, rested and ready to tackle the day. Because life is better when we feel better. At Garmin, with all of our services and products, we want to help you to live better, healthier lives — and that starts with listening to your bodies. We’re all guilty of not […]

Aerial imagery company Nearmap is partnering with Geographic Technologies Group (GTG), which helps local government agencies throughout the United States and Canada with geographic information systems (GIS). GTG offers local governments with GIS services including strategic planning, consulting, comprehensive data services, mapping services, software development, training and on-call support. GTG also provides ongoing GIS maintenance for villages, towns, cities, counties, multi-regional agencies, public works and public utilities, water districts, and Native American and Alaskan Tribes. […]

April 22, 2021 If you’re a runner looking to beef up your training regimen, the solution might feel obvious. Just log more miles, right? Actually, that’s wrong — or at least partially wrong. Like most other things in life, the answer to becoming a better athlete is taking a more holistic approach. Even if your one true love is pounding the pavement (or the grass, or the gravel or the treadmill — all surface levels […]