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Sanjay Gangal
Sanjay Gangal
Sanjay Gangal is the President of IBSystems, the parent company of AECCafe.com, MCADCafe, EDACafe.Com, GISCafe.Com, and ShareCG.Com.

Innovating Precision: Calian GNSS Advances in Smart Antenna Technology

 
May 8th, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

In a recent interview at Xponential 2024 Conference, Gord Echlin, Director of Business Development for Director of Business Development at Calian, shared insights into the company’s cutting-edge developments in GNSS technology and its impact across various sectors.

Calian: A Multifaceted Enterprise

Calian stands out as a substantial multi-sector entity engaged in defense, satellite systems, and health sectors, among others. Originally known as Tallysman Wireless, the division Echlin represents specializes in GNSS antennas, smart antennas, and telematic systems.

Street cleaning Robot —
Robot using Dual Band High Precision Smart GNSS Antenna for street maintenance audit history

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Shearwater Aerospace Revolutionizes Drone Operations with AI

 
May 3rd, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

In an insightful discussion with Chad Armstrong, CEO of Shearwater Aerospace, I explored the innovative strides his company is making in the drone industry. During our interview at a recent technology conference, Armstrong shared his passion for leveraging natural phenomena to enhance drone endurance and efficiency, a pioneering approach inspired by the remarkable flight capabilities of shearwater birds.

Smart Planning module integrated with Lockheed Martin’s VCSi ground control software

Innovation Inspired by Nature

Shearwater Aerospace, not to be confused with its digital footprint at Shearwater.ai, draws its name and inspiration from the shearwater bird, known for its incredible annual migration covering 64,000 kilometers. Armstrong explained that the endurance of these birds sparked the idea to develop advanced AI-powered flight optimization and automation software aimed at significantly improving drone operational efficiency.

“Our focus has always been on endurance, emulating how birds leverage wind power to achieve astonishing feats of flight duration,” Armstrong said. This inspiration led to the development of the company’s flagship platform, Smart FlightTM, which enables a single operator to manage multiple drones simultaneously.

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Pioneering STEM Education with Drones: A Conversation with Hansol Hong, CEO of Robolink

 
April 26th, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

At the recent Xponential 2024 Conference, I had the pleasure of speaking with Hansol Hong, the CEO of Robolink, a company at the forefront of integrating drones into STEM education. Founded over a decade ago, Robolink has made significant strides in making STEM learning exciting and practical by using drones as a primary teaching tool.

CoDrone EDU

Robolink’s impact is substantial, with their programs currently being implemented in approximately 4,000 U.S. schools and expanding globally. Hansol explained that their educational approach uses drones to teach coding and robotics in a practical, hands-on way that resonates with students. “When students program our drones, they see their code come to life as the drones move according to their instructions,” Hansol said. This dynamic method of learning not only engages students but also helps them understand complex concepts in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

The Robolink curriculum includes both hardware—the drones and their accessories—and the software needed to program them. Moreover, the company provides comprehensive learning materials for both students and teachers, ensuring that educators are well-prepared to guide their students through the coursework.

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Intel Sets New Paradigms in Enterprise AI with Launch of Gaudi 3 at Intel Vision 2024

 
April 11th, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

At Intel Vision 2024, under the leadership of CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel demonstrated its strong commitment to transforming enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) with groundbreaking announcements and product launches. Highlighted by the unveiling of the Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerator, the event showcased Intel’s comprehensive strategy to advance AI technologies in the enterprise sector. This strategy includes the development of open, scalable systems that facilitate AI operations across all segments, partnerships with industry giants to enhance ecosystem integration, and an aggressive push towards improving AI inference and power efficiency with cost-effective solutions. Pat Gelsinger’s vision for Intel marks a significant leap forward in the company’s quest to democratize AI technology and drive innovation across diverse industries.

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Empowering Tomorrow: NVIDIA’s Leap into AI-Driven Innovation and Accelerated Computing

 
March 19th, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

In a groundbreaking keynote at the GTC conference, NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, unveiled a vision of the future sculpted by artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing. Central to this vision was the introduction of NVIDIA’s latest chip design, a marvel of engineering set to redefine the boundaries of AI capabilities. This announcement was complemented by strategic partnerships with industry behemoths such as Cadence, Ansys, Synopsys, and Siemens, heralding a new era of technological synergy aimed at accelerating innovation across various sectors.

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Jack Dangermond’s Vision for the Future: Transforming Geospatial Technology with ArcGIS

 
March 4th, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

At the 2024 Esri Federal GIS Conference, Jack Dangermond, president of Esri, offered an enlightening glimpse into the future of geospatial technology, underpinned by the robust capabilities of the ArcGIS platform. Esri’s vision, as articulated by Dangermond, centers on leveraging ArcGIS to transform how professionals across various domains utilize geospatial data to drive efficiencies, innovation, and actionable insights.

ArcGIS emerges not merely as a software solution but as an ecosystem designed to accommodate a diverse array of geospatial needs – from intricate mapping and analytics to sophisticated imagery processing and real-time data management. Its unparalleled ability to assimilate and normalize disparate data types has positioned ArcGIS as an essential tool for entities around the globe.

The cornerstone of ArcGIS’s dominance in the GIS domain is its flexibility and open architecture. It enables myriad implementation strategies to suit different organizational needs, especially for mission-critical applications that demand robustness akin to the most reliable IT systems.

At the heart of the platform’s widespread adoption is its function as a comprehensive content sharing hub. ArcGIS Online alone boasts approximately 60 million shared maps and datasets, fostering an environment where billions of maps are generated daily. This “living atlas” is a testament to the platform’s capacity for growth, continuously integrating data from authoritative sources to serve the GIS community’s evolving needs.

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GISCafePredictions for 2024 – EuroGeographics

 
February 8th, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

By Sallie Payne Snell,  Secretary General & Executive Director  EuroGeographics

Sallie Payne Snell

Providing certainty in an uncertain world

Misinformation and disinformation are the biggest short-term risks facing society according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024. In a data-driven world, maintaining public trust in official information will be more important than ever.

In uncertain times, authoritative map, cadastral and land registration information provides certainty to those responsible for making critical decisions about people and places. Trusted, transparent and interoperable public sector data based on fundamental rights and common values are key building blocks for a wide range of policies, including the EU’s Digital Decade and Green Deal, and the United Nation’s Decade of Action.

In 2024, NMCAs will play a key role in helping to realise the aspirations of people everywhere for a better future by providing the trustworthy data for a sustainable, safer and fairer society.

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GISCafe Industry Predictions for 2024 – Timmons

 
February 7th, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

By Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions, Timmons Group

Lowell Ballard

The year 2024 promises to be a pivotal interval in technology that will be marked by various advancements—several of which we are expecting and can monitor, as well as plenty that haven’t hit our radars yet.

Geospatial technology and GIS are the basis for applications, software, and digital processes that play a central role in connecting nearly 8 billion people with their surroundings and the global Internet every day. It’s only natural that we’d track how GIS can affect and support technological changes for the masses.

As we move into the future, three key elements with roots in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) stand out as driving forces that are reshaping geospatial technology: Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS), Digital Twins, and Digital Delivery. Changes in these technologies are set to redefine the way we perceive and interact with geospatial data, offering unprecedented insights across diverse industries.

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GISCafe Industry Predictions for 2024  – Dedrone

 
February 1st, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal

By Mary-Lou Smulders, Chief Marketing Officer, Dedrone

Mary-Lou Smulders

Four Drone Industry Trends for 2024

How much did the drone industry bring in in 2023? By Statista’s estimate, it was $1.32 billion … in the consumer electronics sector alone. To say that drones remain on a growth trajectory is an early candidate for the understatement of the year. Whether it is for hobbyist use as Statista tracked, for military usage in combat zones like Ukraine, or for commercial usage, the trajectory is clear: as the FAA becomes more comfortable with the idea of drones flying beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), drones are poised to continue reshaping our world in 2024 – for both good and bad.

In this new year, we see four major trends emerging based on this drone usage explosion.

Ukraine and Middle East Conflicts Push Global Drone and Counterdrone Investment
 
There’s a new drone news story coming out of the Russo-Ukrainian War almost every day, from Ukraine’s use of naval drones to its repurposing of fertilizer-spraying drones as bombers and more. Meanwhile, drones have quickly emerged as a major component of the conflict in Gaza. Hamas used commercially-available drones to carry artillery – a technique that Ukraine has used so much, that video of it is publicly available on YouTube courtesy of the BBC. Furthermore, Houthis in Yemen are even using drones to shut down the Suez Canal and target ships heading to and from Israel in the process.

In short, countries around the world are seeing that while they may have thought they were prepared for the next phase of drone warfare, they probably aren’t as secure as they would like. Bloomberg, in its report, said as much.

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GISCafe Industry Predictions for 2024 –Blue Marble Geographics

 
January 31st, 2024 by Sanjay Gangal


By Patrick Cunningham, CEO, Blue Marble Geographics

Patrick Cunningham

Where is Geospatial Technology Headed in 2024

2023 was clearly the year of ChapGPT and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings.  The technology has taken the Internet and media by storm with the advent of some actually useful applications amidst a host of seemingly useless applications.  Granted, it’s still early on this front, so I reserve the right to update that take.  Perhaps the most prevalent use is the effect on search and automated support desk assistance, which is already widely rolled out and in use as of early 2024.  Try calling your credit card company or broadband provider, and you are most likely confronted with an AI-assisted automated helpline. If you visit their websites or use their consumer apps, you are definitely going to be confronted with the tech.  As a consumer, I have found some of these tools to be a bit more useful than in the past, but in general, my experience has been that I personally still prefer to talk with a person when I am in need of assistance. The nature of the assistance I seek when reaching out to support is usually not already available in help documentation or other searchable support tools. And though the promise of AI is that it can take that documentation library and infer the logic for the next step in support, I personally have not seen it. So the application of AI is really just another delay to what I want as a consumer. What the data will tell these companies as far as customer satisfaction with these types of tools remains to be seen.

The other big application of AI is that of writing. Ironically, as I sat down to write this article this year, the thought did cross my mind of asking ChatGPT to write up my takes on some of these topics, so in the end all I had to do was a little bit of editing. You’ll have to believe me when I say that I resisted that temptation. That said, it is becoming more and more common for professionals and non-professionals (think students) to take advantage of the speed and relatively decent accuracy of AI robots for writing. In my business, for the first time this past year, we have seen submissions for presentations and scholarship applications that were obviously written by an AI robot. This is a bit disturbing, but really no skin off our backs per se as there are still many high-quality, well-written, and human-driven submissions. However, this is a much bigger problem in academia.  But I digress.

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