History of Navcom Technology (HONT)


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Navcom Technology, Inc, located at 20780 Madrona Avenue Torrance, CA 90503 California, United States, is a leading John Deere-owned company providing advanced GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) products for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), VARs (Vector Auto Regression) and System Integrators support for high-performance RTK systems, global 5cm level GPS satellite corrections, geodetic quality GNSS Receivers, wireless communication products and engineering consulting for positioning accuracy in the field and robotics.

Starting in 1837, John Deere was a blacksmith and an inventor, he had several employees in his iron shop, his innovation in iron processing was able to contribute to efforts in the agricultural sector, and at that time he was also the first person to invent a hoe product that was used to plow rice fields, he called it Scouring-plow.

Scouring-plow

In short, from year to year the John Deere Company Dynasty grew rapidly and was continued by its trusted people, for example:

In 1875 Gilpin Moore developed a plow called the Gilpin Sulky. It required the power of a farmer using both legs to pedal, this product was the most successful in the 19th century.

Gilpin Sulky

Even though at that time there was a crisis among farmers, John Deere's business continued to grow rapidly, more than 50,000 of its plows were sold.

Until between 1879-1883, from its 5 best-selling products such as walking plows, Gilpin sulkies, cultivators, shovel plows, and harrows. Deere only took four technologies from each of these products to be combined so that new innovations such as Walking plows were born.

Walking plows

And in 1886 John Deere died at the age of 82, in Moline. But his innovation did not stop there, his trusted people continued and developed it, until almost all innovations for his technological products dominated the agricultural sector, such as between 1900-1929 his plow products had begun to use machines.

Waterloo Boy tractors

Model "D"

"GP" (for General Purpose) Tractor

Long story short from 1930 to mid 1990, many innovative products emerged, with bigger and bigger sizes. Like the machines below which were made from 1963 to 1980.

Until finally in early 1992 to face the challenges of the modern era, the John Deere Company was still consistent in innovating, but what it did this time was different, the John Deere Team was confident and brave, with more than 150 years of management experience and had more than 70 engineers and scientists who were able to take a project from conception, through design, to a complete system solution, then a subsidiary was formed with the name Navcom Technology, Inc, so NavCom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deere & Co, a global leader in agricultural products.

NavCom offers a complete line of multi-frequency GNSS and wireless communications products, including the StarFire™ Network- Currently, the world's most widely available Global Satellite-Based Augmentation System (GSBAS). The scope of applications for our products and services includes land surveying, aerial surveying, machine control, military, offshore and marine surveying.

As an industry leader, our Team’s keys to success include being a Johannes Kepler Award winner and the inventor of the Hatch-Filter Technique; a management team with over 150 years of collective GPS experience; and over 70 engineers and scientists capable of taking a project from conception, through design, to a complete system solution.

The product offerings include a full line of multi-frequency GNSS and wireless communications products, along with the StarFire™ Network, which provides the world’s largest global satellite-based augmentation system (GSBAS) today. The application scope for the products and services includes land surveying, aerial surveying, machine control, military, offshore and marine surveying, as for one of the products I am currently using:

Getting to know NavCom LAND-PAK (Advanced GPS/GNSS Technology)

Founded in 1992, NavCom Technology, Inc, is a leading John Deere-owned company providing advanced GNSS products to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), VARs (Vector Auto Regression) and System Integrators supporting high-performance RTK systems, global 5cm level GPS satellite corrections, geodetic quality GNSS receivers, wireless communications products and engineering consulting for precision positioning in the field and robotics.

NavCom offers a complete line of multi-frequency GNSS and wireless communications products, including the StarFire™ Network- Currently, the world's most widely available Global Satellite-Based Augmentation System (GSBAS). The scope of applications for our products and services includes land surveying, aerial surveying, machine control, military, offshore and marine surveying.

As an industry leader, our Team’s keys to success include being a Johannes Kepler Award winner and the inventor of the Hatch-Filter Technique; a management team with over 150 years of collective GPS experience; and over 70 engineers and scientists capable of taking a project from conception, through design, to a complete system solution.

NavCom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deere & Co, a global leader in agricultural products.

LAND-PAK

The LAND-PAK system delivers unmatched capabilities to date. Did you know that these capabilities are unprecedented levels of flexibility with Ultra RTK, StarFire and RTK Extend technologies as standard capabilities? With Ultra RTK, users can receive centimeter-level position accuracy even up to 40km from the base station, while Starfire provides 5 centimeter accuracy anywhere, anytime, even without a base station? NavCom patented RTK-Extend features that allow users to operate in challenging environments and maintain RTK-level accuracy even during base station radio outages.

LAND-PAK includes a standard user manual, a choice of easy-to-use controllers, Office and GNSS post-processing applications, the SF-3040 GNSS receiver and all the necessary hardware and accessories to make your surveys more complete. It is designed to be rugged, waterproof and shockproof, plus a "hot swappable" battery allows for continued operation when the battery needs to be replaced.

UHF and GSM communication channels for support of multiple RTK formats LAND-PAK rover works with a wide range of base stations and RTK networks. Sapphire™ GNSS is a technology with multiconstellation (support GPS, GLONASS) and superior signal sensitivity enabling operation in shaded environments.

Fast setup, ease of use and exceptional performance make the LAND-PAK a mainstay for most surveyors.

Navcom Land-Pak

LAND-PAK Technical Specifications

Tough to Do It All

The world's first StarFire network is a real-time Global Satellite Based Augmentation system (GSBAS) with 5cm accuracy. Performance is not limited by distance to the reference station, allowing you to use Starfire wherever you are.

Real-Time Global Accuracy

  • Less than 5 cm one-sigma per-horizontal axis (10 cm vertical) using the NavCom algorithm and Receiver.
  • No need for local base station / radio communication connection.
  • Global availability

Methodology

The StarFire network is an extension of the basic principles of previous augmentation systems, independently considering each GNSS satellite signal error. Satellite orbit and clock corrections are calculated from a global tracking network of dual-frequency receivers. These corrections are transmitted via geo-stationary satellite links directly to the StarFire receivers, minimizing data latency, provided the view angle to the geo-stationary satellite is at least 10°. All StarFire receivers use a single multi-frequency GNSS receiver that measures the ionospheric delay of each satellite. The peak tropospheric delay is calculated from the multi-state time and position model accuracy is aided by the redundant satellites received.

System Integrity

A global network of multi-frequency GNSS receivers provides raw data every second via redundant data links to two network processing centers located in California, (SW, USA) and Illinois, (NE, USA). These receivers are the realization of the new coordinate system of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF). The StarFire primary time reference is coupled to the International Atomic Time Standard.

The StartFire network is an automatic and continuous self-monitoring system, under the supervision of the StarFire network operator.

NavCom SF-3040 + StarFire, A Perfect and Powerful Choice

Ultra RTK, Increase your range with RTK accuracy reaching (0.5cm + 1ppm) up to 40 km from the base station.

RTK Extend, Enables continuous RTK positioning during radio blackouts and remains smooth, where StarFire will take over when the RTK radio communication signal is blocked or out of range, so there is no need to worry about data accuracy.

StarFire SF-IP, Failover capability allows users to switch from satellite mode to StarFire service internet mode thus maintaining maximum uptime.

StarFire Rapid Recovery, Allows users to quickly regain Starfire accuracy after short GNSS signal blockages caused by shading, bridges or other similar obstacles.

Reward

In 2011, Deere was listed among Fortune magazine's 50 most admired companies, with the distinction of being named one of the 100 best global brands by a leading brand-consulting firm. In a sign of the company's emphasis on global growth, sales outside the U.S. and Canada jumped 38%. John Deere began expanding its empire to India, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, and the United States.

And in 2012 the Company celebrated its 175th anniversary. With Net sales and revenues ($36.2 billion) and net income ($3.1 billion) were new records for the John Deere Team.

That is what the author can summarize regarding the history of the journey of this giant company in the United States. If there are things that are not pleasing or if there are imperfections in the writing of this paper, the author apologizes profusely.

Reference:

  • www.deere.com
  • www.navcomtech.com

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