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Astrata’s
expertise is focused on advanced location-based IT services and
solutions (GEO-IT) that combine GPS positioning, wireless
communications (satellite or cellular), and geographical information
technologies, which enable businesses and institutions to monitor,
track, or control the movement and status of machinery, vehicles,
personnel or other assets.
A U.S. publicly listed company, Astrata has headquarters in London
and offices around the globe. Sales are divided equally between two
divisions: telematics (remote asset management solutions) and geomatics
(high-end professional GPS systems with accuracies approaching 3
millimeters). These products and services address numerous markets
including surveying, utility, construction, homeland security,
military, intelligence, mining, agriculture, marine, public safety and
transportation.
The
Company has approximately 250 permanent employees and employs nearly
100 in its world-class R&D facility located in South Africa, one of
the largest per-capita users of advanced location-based services and
solutions in the world. Astrata has designed, developed,
manufactured, and currently supports seven generations of GEO-IT
products and systems with over 80,000 units deployed worldwide.
Astrata’s geomatics division sells its own software and hardware
products integrated with products from Trimble Navigation, Ltd., Nikon
Surveying Instruments, Aquila, Thrane & Thrane, Itronix and Optech,
among others.
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