With global coverage of the GLONASS constellation now scheduled before the end of 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced plans for a major expansion in its use on the nation's roads. In announcing the deadline for total coverage, Mr Putin revealed that all new vehicles sold in the Russian market from 2012 will be required to include GLONASS receivers.

GLONASS tracking devices are already routinely installed in commercial and emergency services vehicles throughout the Russian federation. But now Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, is expected to start producing its Lada Kalina and Lada Priora models equipped with a GLONASS/GPS navigation system as early as 2011, making it the first manufacturer to equip vehicles with a dual-GNSS receiver as standard.

That was one of the questions put to John Pottle Marketing Director, Spirent Communications, Positioning Group by Coordinates magazine. You can find his answer and the Spirent view on many other interesting questions regarding future GNSS trends and applications at the following link.

http://mycoordinates.org/eventually-all-receivers-will-be-multi-gnss/

As new GNSS systems appear, it becomes more apparent that you need a Multi-GNSS test solution. Here at Spirent we’ve been advocating Multi-GNSS for quite some time but now someone else has taken up the mantle.

If you haven’t already done so, check out this comprehensive article in Inside GNSS magazine. Three receiver designers and researchers explain how they view Multi-GNSS simulators as an essential tool throughout the entire receiver development cycle: from research, development, design and validation through chip, module, OEM and user device development sequences and on to consumer testing, certification, maintenance and repair.