NIS-Glonass Teams Up With Antrix Of India

[redpearl75]

Russian Navigation Information Systems (NIS)-Glonass will sign a 50-50 joint venture agreement with Antrix Corporation by the end of October to market NIS satellite-based services in India, AVIATION WEEK has learned.

Antrix is the marketing arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The terms of the joint venture are not known.

The two partners are planning a road show in four Indian cities to promote NIS satellite-based operator services to police, forestry and private logistics businesses. NIS-Glonass also will open an office in November to support ongoing projects and bids released for its products (Aerospace DAILY, Aug. 27).

NIS-Glonass will market, manufacture and jointly propose products in India. The multifunctional Glonass/GPS user telematic terminal, Cyber GLX, is installed into mobile platforms and is part of a transport monitoring and fleet management system. It is the first navigation terminal in Russia that simultaneously receives and processes signals from both Glonass and GPS.

NIS is looking at Indian companies to manufacture receivers in India. It recently signed an agreement with HBL Power for its Intelligent Transport System (ITS) for police and rail systems.

The deal will “build business opportunities in India for receivers and software for ITS,” HBL Chairman Aluru Jagadish Prasad told AVIATION WEEK. “Since the system operates on GPS and Glonass, it is reliable, accurate and resilient.”

Opportunities are abundant in India, with 100 cities planning to look into ITS in the next 8-10 years. Pune, Kolkata and Chennai already have ongoing projects. Mysore and Surat are looking at the systems, while New Delhi recently floated a bid for traffic management for the Delhi Police.

The NIS-Glonass system will provide automation for staff control of vehicles in normal and emergency situations; provide personnel with data on vehicle location for management decision-making; and display graphical data on vehicle position, as well as other data on a dispatcher’s monitor. It also will create and store data archives on operating vehicle routes and interact with other systems, according to a senior official.

Glonass is currently used as an augmentation to the U.S. Global Positioning System to provide better redundancy, and results show that using Glonass does not degrade the position solution, says Alexey Tyrtov, head of international marketing for NIS-Glonass.

NIS contracts in Moscow include an ITS, an automated transport monitoring system for the 2014 Olympics, a system for the Russian ministry of the interior and an Emergency Response System for accidents.

 

[somebozo]

good going indian space sector!

 

[lilaspr]

Lots are happening with NIS-Glonass Sistema is planing to buy 51% share.

AFK Sistema, a leading Russian services corporation, intends to buy up to 51 percent of Russian Navigation and Information Systems (NIS). The sum of the deal is expected to reach 16 million U.S. dollars. Currently, Concern RTI Systems and Sitronics hold 25.5 percent each in NIS while the Russian government owns 49 percent.

Hope things will move forward as it goes in private hand. NIS needs a funding and soon....

 

[black flame]

what happens to GAGAN the Indian Regional Navigational System........... If india becomes a 50/50 partner then there is no need to invest in GAGAN and GAGAN will be scrapped or what...............

 

[Capt.Popeye]

what happens to GAGAN the Indian Regional Navigational System........... If india becomes a 50/50 partner then there is no need to invest in GAGAN and GAGAN will be scrapped or what...............

IMO, GAGAN is based on a different platform (GPS) and for a (presently) different purpose. GAGAN is to augment air-safety using the GPS system. As it is now, GPS is a more matured and widespread system in use world-wide than GLONASS. In the future, GLONASS may be able to rival GPS in both form and function. This tie-up is preparatory to that.

 

[royaltiger]

thats cool

 

[elite]

What happened to our GAGAN GPS? Is there any update?

 

[redpearl75]

GAGAN update

GAGAN is an Indian Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS). Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to provide the seamless navigation service for all the phases of fl ight over Indian airspace jointly undertake this project. The AAI’s efforts towards implementation of operational SBAS can be viewed as the first step towards introduction of modern CNS/ATM system over Indian airspace. This project involves establishing groundbased elements inclusive of eight Indian Reference Station (INRES), one Indian Master control center (INMCC), one Indian Navigation Land Uplink Station (INLUS).

To begin implementing an SBAS over the Indian airspace, Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) codes for L1 frequency and L5 frequency were obtained from US Air force (Department of Defense) on November 2001 and March 2005. The assignment of L1 and L5 codes is an indicator of the recognition of the need and seriousness of the Indian implementation of GAGAN as GPS augmentation system.

The implementation of the operational GAGAN will take into account the aspects of interoperability with other Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) like WAAS, EGNOS, and MSAS etc. GAGAN planned to be implemented in three phases.
1. Technology Demonstration System (TDS)
2. Initial Experimental Phase (IEP)
3. Final Operation Phase (FOP)

The TDS is broadly defi ned to consist of eight numbers of INRES, one INMCC, one INLUS and a space segment. The ionospheric modeling, required communication links and the necessary software for navigation and communication are being developed as additional parallel effort. Eighteen GPS-TEC receivers have been installed at 5x5 degree grid and are downloading the GPS data for the last 18 months. To study the ionospheric behavior more effectively over entire Indian Airspace, Indian universities and R&D labs, which are involved in the development of regional based IONO-TROP model for GAGAN, have suggested nine more stations.

The scope of the TDS is planned to include the addition of a second frequency L5 both in the space and ground segments and procurement of State-of-the-art ground element. The IEP is being implemented concurrently with TDS Phase.

INRES has minimum two identical GPS receivers/ antenna subsystems to receive GPS signal (L1, L2 & L5) and GEO signals (L1&L5) form all the satellite in view. INRES is configured as multiple receiver chains for obtaining the measurement from the GPS and GEO satellites. During TDS phase eight INRES are planned and all have been installed at their respective stations. INRES is located at Delhi, Banglore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Jammu, Portblair, Guwahati and Trivendrum. Five stations are within airport operational area and three are outside the airport. These stations are so chosen to provide service coverage over Indian airspace.

INMCC is major subsystem of the GAGAN project and the function of the INMCC is correction and safety subsystem, operation of maintenance subsystem, service monitoring subsystem and data communication subsystems. Using suitable navigation software INMCC process the data received through communication link from the all the INRES. It also estimates the integrity and availability of the GPS satellites and uplinks these parameters via INLUS for broadcast to the user receiver through GEO. The INMCC for GAGAN TDS is located at Kundanhalli Banglore. The installation and integration of this major subsystem has been completed. Testing is in progress.

INLUS ground station will receive messages from INMCC and will transmit the correction to GSAT-4 for broadcast to the user platform. The INLUS also provides GEO satellites ranging information and corrections to GEO satellites clocks. The ground station has been establishes in June 2004 in Kundanhalli and it is collocated with INMCC at Banglore.

The up-linking station with the 11 meters antenna has been developed indigenously and has been installed. The RF equipment required at the up-linking station has been procured and installed indigenously and also
design is flexible enough to cater for subsequent phases of the program.

A geo-stationary navigation payload in C band and L1 and L5 frequencies (L band) will be carried on an Indian Geo-stationary satellite i.e. GSAT-4 placed at 82 Degrees East. The Indian payload will fly on GSAT-4 scheduled for launch by December 2006.

The locations were finalized after an elaborate study on multi-path, noise survey and obstruction clearance. A document was prepared for all the INRES and INMCC to check the compliance of the requirements.

At present, GAGAN ground segment is under integration test and data collection at INMCC from the INRES.

 

[redpearl75]

Raytheon has shown interests in assisting in India's GAGAN space-based augmentation system, the Indian Army's Battle Management System (for which Raytheon has pitched its Enhanced Position Location and Reporting System) and supplying additional AN/TPQ-37 weapon locating radars. The company is already working with India on co-production of Paveway LGBs and providing mission support for the Phalanx CIWS.