Septentrio N.V. is a designer and manufacturer of high-end multi-frequency

GNSS A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning. It allows satellite navigation devices to determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude/elevation) to high p ...

receivers. Its main target is to provide

receiver boards and modules for further system integration by

Original Equipment Manufacturers An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces non-aftermarket parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer. It is a common industry term recognized and used by many professional or ...

(OEMs). Septentrio's core technology is used in various professional fields such as land and airborne

surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ...

, mobile mapping, machine control,

precision agriculture Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming management strategy based on observing, measuring and responding to temporal and spatial variability to improve agricultural production sustainability. It is used in both crop and livestock production. ...

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipel ...

, offshore applications,

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, timing and

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etc.

History

Septentrio N.V. was incorporated by Peter Grognard in

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, in January 2000 to commercialize the

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know-how developed at the Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center, the largest independent

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and

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R&D lab in

. In 2007 Septentrio received the ''Trends Gazelle'' award for the fastest rate of growth among Belgian start-up companies.

Location

Septentrio's headquarters are located in

. Operations for North and Latin American are based in Torrance, CA and the Asian-Pacific operations are based in

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and

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Activities

Septentrio has an international team of experts, who cover all the fields of

technology. The company designs its own

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s, hardware,

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and

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s. Being a provider of high-end receivers for professional use, Septentrio prioritizes the reliability and precision of measurements as well as high degree of flexibility and user control. Septentrio’s products make use of APME, the company’s original

multipath In radio communication, multipath is the propagation phenomenon that results in radio signals reaching the receiving antenna by two or more paths. Causes of multipath include atmospheric ducting, ionospheric reflection and refraction, and ref ...

-mitigation technology, on-the-fly ambiguity fixing schemes based on the LAMBDA method, and advanced user-controlled RAIM

s. Septentrio is also known to first introduce single-board attitude determination systems based on the multi-antenna version of its

GPS The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...

receivers. Septentrio’s receivers were used to track experimental Galileo signals transmitted by the GIOVE-A satellite and were also the first to track the signals of the first experimental satellite of the future Chinese

Compass navigation system The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS; ) is a Chinese satellite navigation system. It consists of two separate satellite constellations. The first BeiDou system, officially called the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System and ...

. In the line of user products the company keeps its focus on multi-system receivers that make use of all the navigation signals available in the sky.

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.septentrio.com
APME multipath mitigation techniqueAttitude determinationTriple-frequency combinations of observables

Tracking Compass signals

''Trends-Gazelle'' award April 2007Septentrio's receiver at the MIZU geodetic station records the earthquakesSeptentrio reports the tracking of the GLONASS CDMA signal
see also GLONASS-K
Septentrio receives 2013 GPS World Products Leadership AwardSeptentrio accepts 2018 GPS World Products Leadership Award
Companies based in Flemish Brabant Companies based in Leuven Companies established in 2000 Navigation system companies Belgian brands