Hexagon right now introduced an settlement to accumulate Septentrio NV, a number one OEM supplier of World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) applied sciences, to drive innovation and develop the market attain of Resilient Assured Positioning options.
Combining Septentrio’s pioneering GNSS platform with Hexagon’s intensive positioning portfolio, together with sensor fusion, anti-jamming, correction providers and notion applied sciences, will allow cutting-edge options for various markets and purposes. This may guarantee larger accessibility to high-accuracy and high-performance positioning expertise with low SWaP (Dimension, Weight and Energy) traits. This may speed up the adoption of autonomous programs in current markets and deal with the wants of rising excessive progress segments like robotics, UAVs, autonomy and different mission-critical purposes.
Septentrio has constructed its repute on innovation and buyer focus and can along with Hexagon proceed to function its enterprise mannequin of supplying cutting-edge GNSS expertise and merchandise to its massive base of {industry} main OEM clients.
“The mixture of Hexagon and Septentrio will remodel the positioning {industry} throughout current and new markets, setting new requirements for the accuracy, resilience and scalability of positioning applied sciences, essential to assist and speed up the journey in direction of full autonomy,” stated Norbert Hanke, interim President and CEO, Hexagon AB.
Septentrio, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, has round 150 staff, and is predicted to generate revenues of over 50 MEUR in 2024, with robust progress charges and margins according to the Hexagon Group. Septentrio will likely be reported inside Hexagon’s Autonomous Options division. Completion of the transaction is topic to regulatory approvals and different customary situations and is predicted to be finalised within the first half of 2025.
GNSS performs an vital position in enabling semi and totally autonomous operations in mining together with autonomous haulage programs (AHS) in addition to in collision avoidance. It’s also essential to automobile productiveness monitoring and routing in addition to gear monitoring and upkeep for fleet administration programs (FMS); and machine steerage for dozers, drills and loading gear.
Hexagon’s current positioning portfolio consists of NovAtel’s OEM GNSS receiver platform which gives multi-constellation, multi-frequency monitoring and options flexibility with low energy consumption. NovAtel’s GNSS expertise varieties a part of the stack of applied sciences Hexagon brings to the desk to supply autonomous options in mining together with onboard autonomy and by-wire, world notion, fleet and mission administration, and actuality seize together with industry-leading Leica options.
Septentrio says its GNSS receivers in mining are designed to ship strong and dependable high-accuracy positioning, due to strong monitoring throughout shocks and vibrations ensures clean operation whereas digging or shifting on tracks; whereas multipath mitigation reduces the affect of GNSS alerts that are mirrored off buildings or rocks; and ionospheric scintillation mitigation – which is designed to maintain the receiver working even throughout ionospheric exercise, frequent in sure areas reminiscent of close to the equator or the poles.
Septentrio’s GNSS/INS (Inertial Navigation System) receiver expertise has already been deployed in autonomous haulage in mining – its AsteRx SBi3 Professional+ receivers are utilized by Steer on autonomous Caterpillar 772G vans at shopper quarrying operations in Norway. These receivers provide FUSE+ expertise which integrates correct positioning with different sensors together with INS for heading, pitch and roll angles.
