founded 2000 leuven headquarters leuven belgium key people antoon de proft ceo products gnss receivers number of employees about 50 website http www.septentrio.com for the latin constellation see ursa maior . for the latin direction see north . septentrio latin for the seven oxen stars of the big dipper or simply north is a designer and manufacturer of high end multi frequency gnss receivers . its main target is to provide gnss receiver boards for further system integration by original equipment manufacturers oems . septentrio s core technology is being applied in various professional fields such as land and airborne surveying machine control precise agriculture marine applications construction timing etc. contents 1 history 2 location 3 activities 4 external links history edit septentrio satellite navigation n.v. was incorporated in leuven belgium in january 2000 to commercialize the satellite navigation know how developed at the interuniversity micro electronics center the largest independent microelectronics r & d lab in belgium . in 2007 septentrio received the trends gazelle award for the fastest rate of growth among belgian start up companies . location edit septentrio s headquarters are located in leuven belgium . operations for north and latin american are based in torrance california and the asian pacific operations are based in hong kong . activities edit asterx1 first galileo compatible commercial receiver septentrio has an international team of experts who cover all the fields of satellite navigation technology . the company designs its own chipsets hardware firmware and algorithms . being a provider of high end receivers for professional use septentrio prioritizes the reliability and precision of measurements as well as high degree of flexibility and user control . septentrio s products make use of apme the company s original multipath mitigation technology on the fly ambiguity fixing schemes based on the lambda method and advanced user controlled raim algorithms . septentrio is also known to first introduce single board attitude determination systems based on the multi antenna version of its gps receivers . septentrio s receivers were used to track experimental galileo signals transmitted by the giove a satellite and were also the first to track the signals of the first experimental satellite of the future chinese compass navigation system . in the line of user products the company keeps its focus on multi system receivers that make use of all the navigation signals available in the sky . external links edit official website apme multipath mitigation attitude determination multi frequency combinations of observables inside gnss tracking compass signals inside gnss trends gazelle award april 2007 septentrio s receiver at the mizu geodetic station records the shift caused by the tohoku earthquake septentrio reports the tracking of the glonass cdma signal 1 inside gnss see also glonass k retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title septentrio & oldid 693746838 categories companies of belgiumcompanies established in 2000navigation system companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisnederlands suomi edit links this page was last modified on 4 december 2015 at 16 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view