Skymeter was a location-based services company that provided
GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a Radionavigation-satellite service, satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of t ...
data for pricing and traffic-information-applications. Skymeter was co-founded by Bern Grush, Kamal Hassan and Preet Khalsa and was headquartered at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, Ontario.
Technology
Skymeter claimed to have developed a highly accurate and reliable GPS road-use meter using a liability-critical form of GPS technology they called "Financial-grade GPS" (FGPS) to provide highly reliable charging results that ensure fairness to the user and evidentiary assurance for the toll operator. This is in contrast to conventional GPS, which tends to fail in urban areas due to the
urban canyon effect. The company marketed their technology for use in road pricing, parking, car sharing/renting/leasing, usage-based vehicle insurance, fleet management and emissions metering applications.
Receivership of Skymeter Corp, December 2012
On November 23, 2012, a “Receivership Order” was made by the Ontario Superior Court
of Justice by the MaRS Investments Accelerator Fund, pursuant to Section 243(1) of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. It was accepted on December 20, 2012. The assets of Skymeter Corp were taken over by a new group led by Roger d'Hollander and Bern Grush, called Applied Telemetrics Inc.
Applied Telemetrics website
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See also
*GNSS Road Pricing
GNSS road pricing or GNSS-based tolling is the charging of road users using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensors inside vehicles. Road pricing using GNSS simplifies distance-based tolling for all types of roads in a tolled road netwo ...
* Electronic toll collection
*Location-based service
A location-based service (LBS) is a general term denoting software services which use geographic data and information to provide services or information to users. LBS can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, indoor object search, ent ...
References
External links
Invitation for offers to purchase the business of Skymeter Corporation (“Skymeter”)
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Archive of Skymeter homepage
Article in the Toronto Star about Skymeter
Interview on BNN TV with Skymeter CEO
Article in GigaOm about Skymeter
Road traffic management
Electronic toll collection