New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) commissioner Mike Flynn has announced the use of Viva’s new sensors to better understand how New Yorkers use their streets and to inform safer street design.

First piloted in 2023, these small, privacy-protective smart traffic monitoring sensors count pedestrians, cyclists, buses and vehicles to assess patterns in how people use the streets. Sensors will be installed at approximately 80 additional locations across the five boroughs to accelerate data-driven street safety improvements.

“Safer street design starts with understanding what is actually happening on the street,” said Flynn. “These high-tech sensors will help us evaluate how people are walking, biking and driving so we can design safer streets and encourage safer behavior.”

Building on the successful pilot, NYC DOT will this year scale up a technology that has already transformed how the agency measures traffic activity.

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UK-based developer of GNSS-enhancing software Focal Point Positioning has announced Precise+, a technology that it says delivers reliable high-precision positioning in tough environments where conventional carrier phase tracking fails.

Centimeter-level positioning depends on continuous carrier phase lock. When that lock is interrupted – a routine occurrence in dense cities, under tree cover and in multipath-heavy environments – receivers suffer cycle slips and force the system to reinitialize. For advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automated driving and robotics, these interruptions are the defining barrier to deployment at scale.

According to the company, Precise+ uses Focal Point’s Supercorrelation for precise global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning, improving performance in challenging environments: sub-meter performance in conditions where commercial receivers with live corrections deliver multimeter errors.

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AAVI recently caught up with Xavier Banqué, strategic marketing manager at Trimble, to talk about the key trends driving location technologies, in a feature first published in the April 2026 issue.

Please can you introduce yourself to our readers?
Originally educated as a telecommunications engineer, I have a dual professional profile – covering both technical and business – resulting from a 20-year career that was focused on technical positions during the first decade before I transitioned to become a business strategist in the last 10 years, when I spearheaded a GNSS software company [Rokubun] as CEO and founder.

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UK-based GNSS software provider Focal Point Positioning will present Precise+, its high-precision GNSS technology, at the European Navigation Conference (April 28-30, 2026, Vienna, Austria), highlighting how its Supercorrelation approach enhances carrier-phase positioning.

On the first day of the conference, Focal Point Positioning principal engineer Javier Garcia will present a poster titled Precise+: Bringing the benefits of Supercorrelation to precise GNSS positioning. The research explores how the company’s patented Precise+ technology enhances carrier-phase measurements in challenging environments, enabling centimeter-level positioning accuracy. This capability opens new commercial opportunities, particularly in autonomous vehicle navigation and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Supercorrelation has reportedly improved GNSS reliability in challenging environments, significantly improving code-phase and Doppler measurements in real-world testing worldwide.

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Focal Point Positioning has announced that it is to showcase its S-GNSS Auto software – which enhances global navigation satellite system (GNSS) reliability and supports the use of absolute positioning for autonomous driving in challenging environments – at Tech.AD Europe 2026, which is taking place in Berlin, Germany, on March 23-24.

UK-based Focal Point will demonstrate how S-GNSS Auto addresses common GNSS limitations in environments such as urban canyons and areas with heavy foliage, where signal reflection and attenuation can degrade positioning accuracy. By reducing multipath interference and improving signal sensitivity, the software enhances reliability in conditions where conventional GNSS performs poorly.

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Hesai Technology has announced a strategic cooperation with Grab, under which Grab will serve as the exclusive distributor of Hesai’s lidar products in Southeast Asia. Through this partnership, Grab will lead the sales, customer support and marketing of Hesai’s sensors across Southeast Asia.

Through this partnership, Hesai will use Grab’s resources and distribution network to expand the availability of its lidar sensors across the region. As Hesai’s distributor in Southeast Asia, Grab will also provide a stable supply of lidar technology to support autonomous mobility and mapping applications.

“By expanding access to world-class lidar technology in Southeast Asia, Grab is doing more than improving our own autonomous mobility and mapping capabilities; we are providing the essential ‘eyes’ that allow robotics to ‘see’ and navigate safely, thus ensuring that 3D intelligence can be made accessible and scaled to every industry across our region,” said Anthony Tan, group CEO and co-founder of Grab.

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Marelli has unveiled its Affordable 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) technology for vehicle telematics, offering 50% faster data rate with two-and-a-half times less latency than 4G, while still achieving a comparable price point.

Affordable 5G RedCap is a streamlined version of the 5G technology, already adopted for connected and wearable devices. Marelli has adapted this technology for the automotive sector, offering faster data transmission, lower latency, reduced hardware complexity and minimal power consumption – which are key benefits for electric and connected vehicles.

Marelli says that the solution also offers an affordable alternative to traditional 5G for the upcoming phase-out of 4G networks, projected to start in certain regions beginning as early as 2030.

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In emergencies, every second counts. When someone is in a critical situation, emergency responders must be able to locate them as fast as possible. In vehicles, automated systems like eCall and V2X can help, but their effectiveness depends on reliable, accurate positioning, explains Jez Ellis-Gray, lead product manager at FocalPoint Positioning

An EU initiative aimed at saving lives by reducing response times to road traffic incidents, eCall, has been mandatory in newly manufactured vehicles since 2019. When a road traffic incident occurs, the eCall system immediately notifies emergency services of the location and details of the incident, potentially halving response times.

Continue reading OPINION: How improving GNSS reliability supports NG-eCall and V2X at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Vbox Automotive has expanded its GNSS test equipment range with the launch of the NTRIP base station. The new base station adds significant capability, combining a next-generation multi-constellation, multi-frequency GNSS engine with a built-in NTRIP server, enabling RTK corrections to be transmitted over radio and cellular/wi-fi. This supports accurate, real-time positioning across a much wider area, in more varied environments.

The unit is launching in three models, with options to fit a variety of needs: Internal GNSS antenna and 2.4 GHz radio – quick to deploy for short-range applications, for temporary or mobile testing; internal GNSS antenna, no radio – compact and simple, ideal for NTRIP or semi-permanent installations with external high-power radio masts; and external GNSS antenna, no radio – optimized for permanent installations with tripod-mounted antennas for maximum satellite visibility, supporting NTRIP or external radio.

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Space42 and Dynamic Map Platform North America (DMP) have signed a long-term agreement to provide the high-definition map for General Motors’ Super Cruise advanced driver-assistance system in the UAE.

Signed during the Dubai World Congress, the agreement will enable Space42 to supply lidar point cloud data and updates to DMP, which will process the data for customized HD map data used by GM.

Dr Fan Zhu, senior vice president of autonomous mobility at Space42, said, “This agreement highlights Space42’s trusted role in delivering advanced satellite and AI-driven mapping solutions, and reflects our second strategic pillar of leading in geospatial intelligence services.

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