Canberra,
Australia
– Locata Corporation announced a worldwide initiative to bring its
ground-based positioning system to multiple new markets. The
company’s recent, successful large-scale mining deployments with
partner Leica Geosystems proves the company’s GPS alternative
technology, called LocataNet, consistently delivers positioning in
areas where GPS fails. Locata’s accuracy and wide-area coverage is also
proving indispensable for organizations, like the U.S. Air Force, that
have now obtained LocataNets for precise positioning in the
absence of GPS.
Locata also announced it has extended its
exclusive global mining and mine machine automation partnership with Leica
Geosystems until June 30, 2014. The extension guarantees the ongoing,
commercial provision to the global mining industry of the Leica “Powered
by Locata” Jigsaw Positioning System (Jps) for mining fleet management.
“We’re excited to start extending our revolutionary positioning
technology beyond mining applications to partners in
construction, government, aviation, manufacturing, transportation and
other GPS-centric industries,” said Nunzio Gambale, CEO and
co-founder of Locata. “The real-world results delivered by our systems are
exceeding our customers’ expectations. Other partners can now look to
these trailblazing customers to discover how to end the application
problems they have when GPS coverage gaps negatively impact their critical
positioning-based operations.”
Locata’s technology is designed to power
new applications for locating, directing and automating objects and
equipment when GPS signals are unavailable. LocataNets are
terrestrial networks which function as a local ground-based replica
of GPS. LocataNets work seamlessly with satellite-based solutions,
providing positioning information when GPS signals are unreliable,
inconsistent or blocked entirely in environments like open-cut mines, in
warehouses, in “urban canyons” or inside buildings.
Locata offers a technology to replicate the GPS system’s
precise positioning capability without using satellites. The company today
has 92 granted global patents protecting its inventions. This
development has enormous implications for organizations that must have
impeccable positioning under conditions where GPS is unreliable or fails
completely. One such industry – mining – is leading the world
in deploying this new capability because of Leica’s commitment to early
adoption, and their rapid integration of Locata positioning into Leica
mining systems. Now Locata partners in other markets will be given
access to this new enabling technology.
The Locata-powered Leica Jps network is the only high
precision solution in the world that augments standard survey-grade GPS/GLONASS
signals with Locata signals, ensuring no positioning signal loss
or machine down-time – even against high walls or in the deepest open pit
mines. Leica’s Jps will be commercially available to the mining industry
globally beginning in August 2012.
“Through Jps, we offer autonomy
from sole reliance on satellite-based positioning networks,” said Haydn
Roberts, CEO, Leica Geosystems Mining. “Our new Jps development will
continue to meet and exceed industry expectations. In being available
to augment any GPS/GNSS network on any site, we are truly providing a new
capability for mining applications, enabling them to operate with
unprecedented signal up time and benefit from the huge
associated financial return. And we know it works – we have the
data.”
Locata’s technology fills in the gap between
yesterday’s GPS-only solutions and a future “GPS 2.0” – the combination of
GPS and terrestrial positioning signals which are essential to
power modern-day applications. To learn how your organization can improve
its positioning-based operation, contact enquiry@locatacorp.com.
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