GLONASS at the service of security.
The XIV International Forum “Security Technologies 2009” has finished its work. The forum was held in Moscow from 03.02.2009 to 06.02.2009 and gathered 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”, “Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern” and FSUE “RIRV”, where the shelves of the display cases were literally “bursting” with the variety of solutions based on GPS and GPS/GLONASS technologies.
If a competition for the most unusual and memorable stand had been announced at this exhibition, the leader in it would certainly have been the stand of “M2M Telematics”; it was simply impossible not to notice it among other, no less interesting stands.
We will tell you a little about the exposition presented there dedicated to security and satellite technologies.
The center of the entire exhibition was a huge GLONASS satellite and a neon sign “GLONASS IN THE SERVICE OF SECURITY.”
The sign clearly indicated the company’s profile. Since 2002, M2M (BusinessNavigator® trademark) has been developing, producing, and implementing solutions in the field of satellite monitoring 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 the GLONASS and GPS satellite navigation systems, GSM cellular communications (GPRS/SMS), Inmarsat, Iridium satellite communications, and positioning in cellular networks (MPS/LBS).
The company's stand presented solutions for various categories of consumers.
• 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 security, a collar-tracker based on GLONASS, was awarded a 1st degree medal and a diploma as “BEST INNOVATIVE SOLUTION” in the nomination “Means and systems for monitoring and ensuring security 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 largest enterprises in the country.
Such complexes receive and process information from satellites of the GLONASS and/or GPS navigation systems.
Then they transmit information about the location and movement of the object, as well as data about the state of its main systems, via GPRS channels to the telematics server and user control centers. The coverage area of the terminals corresponds to the coverage area of GSM cellular networks.
For those areas where there is no GSM coverage yet, a dual-system subscriber terminal SureLinx 8100 was specially developed. It is positioned by the company as a new high-tech product and is focused, first of all, 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 management system on any, even the most problematic, sections of the road and terrain without territorial restrictions.
In the consumer sector, the M2M holding presented the SHTURMANN GPS navigation systems of its own design, which differ sharply from similar systems by the ability to select the desired navigation program or use several programs, as well as the ability to work with navigation programs with the “traffic jams” service.
With the help of the built-in GPRS module (a SIM card with a specially developed tariff “Navigation” from “Beeline” is already supplied in the kit) and software developed by the company’s programmers, you can also work with e-mail, ICQ, SMS and go online and get to popular sites with one or two clicks of a button.
At the stand of the company’s partner “M2M Telematics” — FSUE “RIRV” (Russian Institute of Radio Navigation and Time) GPS/GLONASS chipsets of different generations and prototypes of end-user GPS/GLONASS equipment were presented.
The evolution of Russian-made GPS/GLONASS chipsets is obvious.
Until recently, the smallest chipset was 40×40 mm and could only fit into a 7-inch navigator case. Today, we see the first portable devices that, although larger and more expensive than GPS analogs, can already be called portable.
Perhaps in 2012, when the GLONASS space group is fully deployed (24 satellites), we will see consumer GLONASS equipment that is in no way inferior to foreign analogs, and in some respects even superior to them.
The stand of the company “Caesar Satellite” (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 switching to technologies that allow saving on transportation costs and monitoring the movements of their fleet or couriers, while ordinary users are primarily interested in knowing where their relatives are and whether everything is okay with them.
Today, such solutions already exist, the leaders in the implementation of such solutions have clearly emerged, and the GPS Club will pay even more attention to 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 recording the situation on the road to a storage medium).
Such systems, essentially resembling “black boxes”, but with more extensive 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 a car and the actions of a driver. The uniqueness of this product lies in the combination of data recording technologies and location recording using GPS navigation technologies.