Positioning offerings for manufacturers

You can choose RTK, PPP, or bridge both with borderless service that automatically switches between regional GNSS reference networks. Bulk OEM subscription options are available that allow manufacturers to include correction services with their GNSS-based products.

Supporting tomorrow’s designs today

Increase your product’s performance with next-gen GNSS technology

Enhance your designs with navigation, guidance, automation, and telematics

Topcon GNSS technology can expand your products’ functionality, application coverage, and addressable markets. We provide off-the-shelf, white-label, and fully customized GNSS boards, receivers, antennas, correction services, telemetry, and software to increase your performance and competitive advantage.

Enabling Industrial IoT

Topcon uses its decades of positioning and automation experience to strengthen IoT offerings. We work with large telecoms and Industrial IoT product teams to develop:

• Smart mobility applications as well as interconnected and autonomous vehicles
• Lane-level and geofencing applications for V2X (vehicle to everything) and asset positioning
• Precise Positioning Location services to enable positioning assurance, regulation, sustainability, efficiency, and safety
• High-accuracy services for autonomous machinery and industrial robots, such as delivery robots, robot mowers, drones and safety system wearables.

Corrections services subscriptions for products

Correction services leverage data taken from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS, sometimes called GPS).

Depending on the required accuracies and start-up times, real-time kinematic (RTK) or precise point positioning (PPP) is used to determine the exact location of an asset.

RTK positioning calculates the asset’s precise position within seconds in relation to a specific set of reference stations or a regional network of stations. PPP calculates precise clock, orbit, and bias data, all within a global reference framework, but with slower convergence or initialization times on the user side.

Topnet Live service options

Realpoint Description

Provides network RTK accuracy and a quick start-up time where Topnet Live is available

Correction type / delivery

RTK via cellular network

Coverage

Regional

Accuracy

2 cm

Initialization time

Seconds

Skybridge Description

Provides and maintains positional accuracy when RTK services are interrupted

Correction type / delivery

Corrections via satellite

Coverage

Regional or local

Accuracy

Infill for RTK

Initialization time

Automatically activates when
RTK signal is lost

Starpoint Pro Description

Provides PPP service anywhere on the planet, independent of local
 networks

Correction type / delivery

Corrections via satellite

Coverage

PPP via L-Band or NTRIP

Accuracy

3-6 cm

Initialization time

< 20 minutes

GNSS hardware

We offer a wide range of rugged GNSS boards, receivers, antennas, telematics modules, and sensors. Topcon GNSS equipment is designed and assembled in Livermore, California. We also develop clean‑sheet designs to meet your specific requirements.

Technology strategy

Our engineers and OEM leaders work with your executive teams to develop strategies that leverage our decades of experience in technology development and product design in combination with end-user insight and market analysis. The result is a customized plan for integrating our technologies into your current and future equipment.

Product and system design

We map out designs and products that fill important technological needs for our customers and close the technology gaps in their equipment. We work closely with manufacturers’ product development teams to integrate automated technologies into both new and established equipment lines.

Global perspective

We understand one size never fits all. Our global research and engineering teams work to understand your needs and develop solutions and variants that serve all your audiences.

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