EMS Technologies to Support Russian GLONASS System

4 May 2011

EMS Technologies, Inc. announced that products and solutions offered through its Global Resource Management unit will soon be outfitted for compatibility with GLONASS, a constellation of 26 positioning and navigation satellites operated by the Russian government. The enhancements are designed to enable the delivery of reliable and secure asset-tracking and -monitoring solutions to a wide array of customers in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The products will be introduced later this year through a distribution agreement between EMS Global Tracking and MVS Global Telecommunications Moscow.

“GLONASS certification is a must-have feature for many of our customers in Russia and other countries in the region,” noted Dino Koutrouki, Vice President and General Manager, EMS Global Resource Management. “With the new capabilities in place, we anticipate being able to offer a complete end-to-end tracking solution for marine- and land-based vehicles in these growing markets. As an additional benefit, our products will be designed to support upcoming GPS constellations like Galileo in Europe and the Beidou navigation system in China without any modifications to the antenna.”

In addition to making its products compatible with the GLONASS system, EMS Global Tracking is localizing key components of its solution, including translating ViewPoint asset management software and all technical documentation into the Russian language to enable the smooth rollout of future projects. Even the display on the Osprey Personal Tracker has been updated to support Cyrillic characters out of the box.

We are seeing strong interest in our GLONASS-enabled products from several Russian private and public organizations in the oil & gas and forestry sectors,” added Dmitry P. Sokolov Regional Sales Manager, Russia, EMS Global Tracking. “It’s clear that our end-to-end tracking solutions have caught the attention of a number of Russian system integrators working in a range of tracking and monitoring applications.”