LabSat

Racelogic announced as double winner in the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, with both Innovation and International Trade awards.

Announced on Saturday 21st April, to mark Her Majesty’s birthday, the 2012 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise listings contained 209 companies, with Racelogic being one of only four to be honoured with the award for both Innovation and International Trade.

Racelogic won the Innovation award for our advances in GPS/GLONASS test simulation, with Customers such as Broadcom, ST-Ericsson and Telefonica using LabSat to test their devices.

To cover for losses in satellite visibility, which can occur in urban canyons, tunnels and under bridges, most OEM navigation systems have a dead reckoning capability that utilises vehicle wheel speed data and turn rate information. When it comes to testing these systems on the bench, if the dead reckoning signals are not present, the navigation systems will not function correctly. To overcome this, UK based electronics company Racelogic has introduced a full navigation system testing solution comprising of a LabSat GPS simulator, Video VBOX data logger, turntable, yaw rate sensor and wheel speed generation unit.

To record the data, the LabSat and Video VBOX are placed in the vehicle during a simple drive along the desired test route. The wheel speed data is recorded from the vehicle CAN bus, and the yaw rate sensor records the physical movement of the vehicle. 

Come and visit us at the Mobile World Congress 2012 exhibition in Barcelona, Spain from 27th February to 1st March 2012; where we will be demonstrating our innovative GNSS record and replay system for mobile device testing coupled with a live turntable and synchronised video application for testing navigation systems.

LabSat continues to attract new customers and users across many sectors throughout the world and mobile device testing is one of the fastest growing sectors for LabSat. This exciting exhibition attracts international exhibitors including current LabSat customers such as Nokia, Telefonica, Samsung, and ST Ericsson

We’ll be in Hall 2.1 on stand B11 – if you or your colleagues are attending we look forward to seeing you there!

Find out more about Mobile World Congress and other LabSat shows here >

UK based Racelogic’s SatGen simulator assists OEM device development with GLONASS capability

The inclusion of GLONASS into the recently released iPhone 4S highlighted the penetration the Russian satellite system is now enjoying in consumer devices. With the constellation now providing full coverage it has become more important than ever that engineers are able to simulate GLONASS data in order to test multi GNSS constellation devices effectively.

Providing engineers with the opportunity to create complex signal scenarios using the inbuilt intelligent path and velocity models, Racelogic’s SatGen software now offers users the chance to produce custom routes using both GPS and GLONASS receivers anywhere in the world. These can then be replayed in real-time using a LabSat 2 GNSS record and replay system.