GLONASS in the security service.
Finished the XIV International Forum “Security Technologies 2009”.
The forum was held in Moscow from 02/03/2009 to 02/06/2009 and brought together leading experts in the field of security under one roof.
But the “highlight” of this forum was the joint stand of the companies “M2M Telematics”, “Concern Air Defense “Almaz-Antey” and FSUE “RIRV”, where the shelves of display cases were literally bursting with a variety of solutions based on GPS and GPS/GLONASS technologies.
If at this exhibition a competition was announced for the most unusual and memorable stand, then the leader in it, of course, would be the “M2M Telematics” stand; you wouldn’t notice it among other, no less interesting stands, it was simply impossible. Let’s tell you a little about the exposition on security and satellite technologies presented there.
The center of the entire exposition was the huge GLONASS satellite and the neon inscription “GLONASS ON SECURITY SERVICE.”
The inscription clearly made it clear about the profile of the company’s activities. Since 2002, the M2M company (BusinessNavigator® trademark) has been developing, producing and implementing solutions in the field of satellite control of transport and security.
Today the holding is the largest Russian telematics operator and developer of software, subscriber equipment in the field of monitoring mobile objects based on GLONASS and GPS satellite navigation systems, GSM cellular communications (GPRS/SMS), Inmarsat, Iridium satellite communications, and positioning in cellular networks (MPS /LBS).
At the company’s stand, solutions for various categories of consumers were presented.
• BusinessNavigator® transport monitoring and management systems for various purposes, automated transportation process management systems, systems based on logistics software, security and monitoring systems for vehicles and real estate.
• Regional navigation and information system of the transport complex (RNIS TC) and elements of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) based on GLONASS.
• Specialized applications and information services based on satellite navigation, including positioning and data transmission in cellular networks (LBS), a product line of car navigators under its own brand SHTURMANN®.
The development of the company “M2M Telematics” in the field of personal personal security, a collar-tracker based on GLONASS, was awarded a 1st degree medal and a diploma as “BEST INNOVATIVE SOLUTION” in the category “Monitoring and security tools and systems based on the GLONASS system.”
The M2M-Cyber GLX (GSM/GLONASS/GPS) and M2M-Cyber GX (GSM/GPS) complexes have already proven themselves as reliable monitoring systems and are installed in the vehicle fleets of the country’s largest enterprises. Such complexes receive and process information from satellites of GLONASS and/or GPS navigation systems.
Next, information about the location and movement of the object, as well as data about the state of its main systems, is transmitted via GPRS channels to the telematics server and user dispatch centers.
The terminals’ coverage area corresponds to the coverage area of GSM cellular networks.
For those areas where there is no GSM coverage yet, the SureLinx 8100 dual-system subscriber terminal was specially developed; it is positioned by the company as a new high-tech product and is focused primarily on meeting the needs of companies operating in the field of international transportation, in the construction, oil and geological exploration industries .
SureLinx 8100, having the ability to transmit data via two communication channels, satellite and cellular, ensures uninterrupted operation of the transport monitoring and control system on any, even the most problematic, sections of the road and terrain without territorial restrictions.
In the consumer sector, the M2M holding presented SHTURMANN GPS navigation systems of its own design, which differ sharply from similar systems in the ability to select the desired navigation program or use several programs, as well as the ability to work navigation programs with the traffic jam service.
Using the built-in GPRS module (a SIM card with a specially designed “Navigation” tariff from BeeLine is already included in the kit) and software developed by the company’s programmers, you can also work with email, ICQ, SMS and access the Internet and one — With two clicks of a button you can immediately get to popular sites.
At the stand of the partner company “M2M Telematics” — FSUE «RIRV» (Russian Institute of Radio Navigation and Time) presented GPS/GLONASS chipsets of different generations and prototypes of end-user GPS/GLONASS equipment.
The evolution of Russian-made GPS/GLONASS chipsets is obvious. More recently, the dimensions of the smallest chipset were 40X40 mm and could only fit into a 7-inch navigator case; today we see the first portable devices that, although in size and cost exceed GPS analogues, but in general they can already be called portable.
Perhaps in 2012, when the GLONASS space constellation has already been fully deployed (24 satellites), we will see GLONASS consumer equipment that is in no way inferior to foreign analogues, and in some respects superior to it.
The stand of the Caesar Satellite company (once the industry leader in anti-theft satellite systems) did not please us with anything new in the field of satellite technologies, since today they focused on video and remote control security of stationary objects.
During any economic crisis, as is known, the crime rate increases, including in the economic sphere.
The attention of corporate users is shifting to technologies that allow them to save on transportation costs and control the movements of their fleet or couriers, while for ordinary users, it is primarily important to know where their relatives are and whether everything is okay with them.
Today, such solutions already exist, leaders in the implementation of such solutions have clearly emerged, and the GPS Club will pay even more attention to just such solutions.
An interesting solution in the field of automotive active video surveillance systems was presented by the Moscow company TRAL, offering its version of small-sized video recorders (a camera that records the situation on the road on a storage medium).
Such systems, which are essentially reminiscent of “black boxes”, but with wider capabilities, have recently begun to gain popularity both as a means of proving one’s innocence in an accident, and as a means of monitoring the movements of the car and the actions of the driver.
The uniqueness of this product lies in the combination of data recording technologies and location fixation using GPS navigation technologies.