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News Release from: Hemisphere GPS
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 April 2003
Differential GPS beacon receivers For
USDA
Manufacturer of advanced wireless and GPS systems, CSI Wireless, has received a US$3m purchase order from 3-D Marketing for MBX-3S differential (DGPS) beacon receivers.
CSI Wireless, a manufacturer of advanced wireless and GPS technologies, today announced a US$3-million purchase order from 3-D Marketing LLC, a U.S.-based firm, for its MBX-3S differential (DGPS) beacon receiver 3-D Marketing uses the MBX-3S as the differential source of its Configuration 1 DGPS System that it is currently selling to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other Federal Departments/Agencies under a multi-year USDA National Contract
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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3-D Marketing specializes in sales to the U.S.
government, and is a recognized expert in executing the formal approval processes required for federal procurement contracts.
3-D Marketing has successfully taken the MBX-3S through the federal approval process and it is now a mandatory component for all USDA Configuration 1 DGPS systems to be supplied by 3D Marketing.
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Since the inception of this National Contract in September 2001, the USDA and several other Federal Departments/Agencies have been steady buyers of CSI's GPS technology through 3-D Marketing.
This has resulted in more than $1.6 million of revenue for CSI to date.
U.S.
government contract sales are a growing source of income for CSI Wireless, and the Company is working with 3-D Marketing to generate further sales opportunities from other CSI Wireless products.
Today's announcement is an indication of this business relationship's potential as U.S.
Government demands require larger and larger volumes of high-accuracy GPS technology.
"Because of their potential size, U.S.
government contracts represent substantial opportunities," said Stephen Verhoeff, CSI Wireless President and CEO.
"Selling to government bodies can be challenging, but 3-D Marketing understands the process and we are working with them on other sales opportunities we have mutually identified." Dean Steeves, Director of Marketing at 3-D Marketing said: "The USDA is comprised of several different agencies such as, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency and Rural Development.
These agencies use GPS technology to satisfy a myriad of identified operational requirements that include demand for higher accuracies and increased productivity.
Because these agencies use geographic information to provide products and services to their customers and clients, GPS technology like CSI's enables them to do it faster and better than ever before." The Farm Service Agency alone administers more than 40 programs in farm commodity, credit, conservation, environmental, and emergency assistance.
GPS enables calculation of field areas, lengths, and locations that can be readily provided to producers and contractors.
In recent years, several Farm Service Agency offices found that GPS immediately improved the efficiency of their staff, independent of GIS hardware and software.
Once integrated with GIS (geographical information systems), those gains increase substantially, not only in saved time, but in the ability for staff to better do their jobs and provide high-quality products and services.
According to the USDA, GPS units will significantly reduce workload and improve accuracy in disaster assessments such as flood areas or hail damage, mapping of buffer strips, and in conservation program enrollment and monitoring.
As part of an integrated GIS suite, GPS will permit agency staff to complete field assignments in a fraction of the current response time.
"Not only is CSI Wireless a global leader in DGPS," said Mr Steeves.
"Today, CSI Wireless is one of the only companies fully committed to beacon DGPS.
More and more applications are demanding differential accuracy.
Beacon differential is proving to be the winning high-accuracy differential technology due to its reliability and consistency.
This is very important for today's applications, and will also be critical for many requirements being driven by new Homeland Security initiatives." About GPS Standard GPS involves a ground-based receiver using pre-programmed data to know the orbital location of each of 24 GPS satellites - collectively known as the U.S.
government's Global Positioning System (GPS) - that circle 22,000 kilometers or 13,000 miles above Earth.
A ground-level GPS receiver computes the distance to each satellite, and enables users to "triangulate" or compute specific geographic positions on Earth.
GPS provides worldwide positioning accuracies ranging from 10 to 15 metres.
More precise accuracies are possible using land based radiobeacons.
There are networks of land-based beacons around the world that constantly broadcast signals to receivers that enable them to differentially correct, or enhance the accuracy of, the data they receive from standard GPS.
For many applications, standard GPS does not provide enough accuracy, and so there has been a surge in market demand for the increased accuracy of DGPS for applications such as GIS mapping.
Accordingly, CSI Wireless' distribution partners have been increasing their forecasts for DGPS demand.
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