On July 23, Zhang Chunling, Chief Engineer of China Satellite Navigation System Management Office, said at the "2016 China Beidou and IOT Industry Technology Seminar" held in Nanjing on July 23 that China's self-developed Beidou satellite navigation system has initially formed the foundation for global expansion. The system will form a service capacity for countries along the "the Belt and Road" in 2018 and a global service capacity in 2020.
On June 12th of this year, the 23rd Beidou navigation satellite was successfully launched and entered its designated orbit. Since the successful launch of the first Beidou navigation satellite in 2007, more than 9 years of high-density satellite launches have prepared China's satellite navigation system for widespread civilian and global services.
The Beidou system has been providing regional services for more than three years, and the detection and evaluation results show that the positioning accuracy is higher in Beijing, Nanjing, and low latitude areas. Zhang Chunling told reporters that especially after the launch of two IGSO satellites this year, the reliability and service performance of the Beidou system in the service area will be further improved.
According to its introduction, the Beidou system is currently undergoing enhancement system construction. In conjunction with multiple departments such as the Ministry of Transport, the Earthquake Administration, the Meteorological Administration, and the Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau, a Beidou ground-based enhancement framework benchmark station network covering the whole country has been built. After the system is officially put into use, it will provide real-time positioning services at the meter and decimeter levels for users within China, and the accuracy in some areas can reach centimeter or even millimeter level.
The biggest challenge currently faced by the Beidou system is "Where can one apply their skills?" Integration is the future development trend of the Beidou system, and the integration with the Internet of Things will enable the system to be widely used in civilian fields. Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters that whether it is tracking and positioning production and transportation in modern manufacturing enterprises, information transmission in health and elderly care, or even real-time monitoring of fixed building satellite positioning in disaster warning, it will become a vast market for Beidou system applications.
It is reported that the new generation of domestically produced Beidou chip modules and other core basic products are gradually being put into the market, which can meet the application needs of smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, etc., changing the situation where China's high-precision satellite navigation core products rely entirely on imports.
"The Beidou system is becoming a national diplomatic card and going overseas. According to the global networking plan, the Beidou system will form a service capacity for countries along the the Belt and Road in 2018, and has also signed an agreement with Russia. At the same time, it has been written into planning documents such as the China Mongolia Russia Economic Corridor and China Arab policy, and will form a global service capacity by 2020." Zhang Chunling said. (End)
