Our
GPS unit, dating from 1990, is in Calgary, Alberta, and Scottsdale,
Arizona. It is a world leader in designing and manufacturing
competitively priced, high-quality GPS and Differential GPS
(DGPS) products, which ensure more accurate navigation, improvements
in productivity and safety, and savings in costs and time.
Our GPS and DGPS products, sold in almost 50 countries worldwide,
play critical roles in a variety of industries including:
Our
Agricultural Guidance customers typically use our GPS products
for aerial or land-based navigation. For example, a CSI product
used with spraying equipment enables the operator to travel
back and forth across his or her fields in very precise rows
and to fertilize the fields as cost-efficiently as possible,
with minimal overlap and wasted fertilizer.
Our
Agricultural Guidance products can also be used to create
yield-by-field location maps that tell farmers which parts
of their fields are most productive, and which need more fertilizer
or other additives to increase production. Combining the maps
with our GPS products and with spraying equipment enables
farmers to automatically vary their spraying from one part
of a field to another, for a precise, customized approach
that achieves maximum cost-efficiency.
Our
Marine Guidance, and Harbour Management and Hydrographic Surveying
customers typically use our GPS products for highly accurate
navigation and positioning, and for determining a vessel’s
precise speed and heading. For example, determining precise
speeds enable fishing vessels to maintain trailing nets at
desired depths.
Our
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping products
are used for a variety of GIS, mapping and surveying applications.
Our
Asset Tracking & Management and Stolen Vehicle Recovery
customers typically use our GPS products to monitor the movements
of car rental and truck fleets, and other mobile equipment.
For example, a trucking company can track the speed and direction
of its vehicles to ensure they achieve cost-effective fuel
consumption, and travel the most time-efficient routes. Another
example: a car owner can use our GPS products to aid police
in tracking his stolen vehicle.
Some
of CSI Wireless' GPS Products
Agricultural
Guidance
The
Outback® S, Outback® 360, Outback® Hitch and new Outback®
eDrive are guidance products for the agricultural industry
that CSI developed under exclusive contract for RHS Inc.,
an OEM customer that markets them worldwide.
The
Outback®
S is a low-cost system that enables farmers to
navigate back and forth across their fields in very precise
rows, with minimal overlap, whether in straight lines or contours.
The product is easy to install (requiring only 15 minutes)
and operate.
The
Outback®
360 is a companion product
- a computerized visual aid system. It features a high-resolution
colour display that effectively enables farmers to look down
from the sky - monitoring the progress of their tractors
and implements as they move across fields.
The
Outback®
Hitch is another companion
product - designed and built especially for guiding
tractor-pulled implements such as planters, sprayers and cultivators.
It ensures that implements always follow precise paths, regardless
of curves, hillsides and inattentive driving.
The
Outback®
eDrive is an automatic steering system that enables
users to operate their tractors and other self-propelled equipment
hands-free except when turning at row ends.
RHS
has purchased more than $36 million of Outback® products
from CSI since the line’s introduction in 2000. During
that time, the Outback® S has been cited by the American
Society of Agriculture Engineers as an example of “outstanding
innovation” that saves “producers time, costs
and labour, while improving user safety.”
We
also manufacture and market a wide range of CSI- and Satloc-branded
products for aerial and ground-based agricultural guidance
– including mapping, yield monitoring and soil sampling. These
products include the AirStar
99.5 , LiteStar,
Satloc M3, Cornerpost,
and our new GPSteer
auto-steering system.
Marine
Guidance
For the global marine and "machine
control" markets, CSI has the Vector
PRO, Vector
Sensor and Vector
OEM GPS heading sensors that enable users
to maintain accurate headings at substantially less than the
cost of traditional gyro compasses or competing GPS systems.
We also offer the MBX-3s beacon receiver for various marine
applications.
Integrated
Receivers
An integrated receiver
combines a GPS receiver with a second receiver that utilizes
accuracy-enhancing Differential correction signals from one
or more sources - ground-based beacon stations or Space-Based
Augmentation Systems (SBAS) such as WAAS, EGNOS and MSAS,
plus the subscription-based OmniSTAR system. The
Bluetooth enabled PowerMAX is our newest integrated receiver.
Other popular models include the DGPS
MAX, MiniMAX,
Seres
or AgI,Q,
MBX-3S,
SLXg3
and SLXg3
Combo. Our integrated receivers
address a wide variety of applications including agricultural
guidance, marine guidance, surveying, GIS and Mapping, asset-tracking,
stolen vehicle recovery and telematics. |
