San Francisco-based company Point One Navigation has introduced significant enhancements to its precise positioning Polaris network.
Companies reliant on large-scale positioning solutions often encounter logistical challenges when deploying and managing fleets of drones, rovers, or other satellite receivers. A typical day’s tasks might include planning extensive underground pipelines in multiple locations, deploying new fleets of vehicles in several markets, or adjusting drone routes nationwide.
Mark Wilkerson, Point One Navigation’s Product Manager, said: “The most powerful aspect of our tagging system is that it fundamentally changes the way customers can integrate their systems with ours.”
Traditional precise positioning systems require customers to invest considerable engineering time in gathering vendor data, integrating it into their systems, mapping it to their data, and maintaining synchronisation. This process involves months of engineering effort and significant recurring infrastructure costs.
Point One’s new tagging system allows customers to use P1’s API as if it were a native application. Customers can attach their data to P1’s devices, enabling them to query the system with their native IDs, model numbers, regions, and more. This feature integrates seamlessly with existing systems.
Eliminating the need for pull->store->join steps, the system facilitates real-time operations via Point One’s GraphQL subscriptions API, a capability not possible with traditional systems. Additionally, the device search interface in the web application allows users to filter and query their devices by tags, connection status, or attributes. Support teams can quickly locate all active customer devices and display them on a map in real time. Fleet managers can easily retrieve all devices of a specific type or associated with a specific business unit.
Changes made in the web application or the API update in real time.
Point One aims to make reliable, accurate positioning accessible to all, whether managing a few drones or deploying global fleets. It has established one of the world’s largest RTK network, offering 99.9% uptime and centimetre-level precision in the US, EU, Canada, Australia, South Korea, and Great Britain. Point One’s leading API enables seamless real-time device management.
“But Point One didn’t stop there,” added Wilkerson. “We’re always looking for ways to innovate and make the Polaris solution more intuitive and user-friendly. With tags, we’ve made it that much easier to attain fleet-scale precise positioning.”
Deploying, managing, and analysing devices should not be cumbersome, regardless of fleet size. Polaris’s tags feature offers streamlined searchability, precise analytics, and extensive device control, providing powerful functionality in a simple new feature.
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