Birth and development: the milestone of domestic GPS survey and the "poor and white" industry environment
In the mid-1990s, GPS began to enter the domestic civil field. Southern Company, which takes the localization of instruments as its responsibility, seized the opportunity and started the research and development of the first domestic measuring GPS-NGS200. 1NGS200 was successfully developed at the end of 1995, and196 was put into market application. The birth and successful application of the first set of static GPS in South China is undoubtedly a milestone in the domestic survey application field.
In the early stage of development, many domestic GPS enterprises were short-lived and died of addiction in the face of the March of foreign GPS giants. Faced with such a market situation and industry environment, Southern GPS is struggling. In the early stage of development, the strategy of Southern GPS is to take small and medium-sized surveying and mapping units as the main line, static GPS as the breakthrough point, and consider its actual needs from the user's point of view from the beginning. Southern company's sales network and service system all over the country and excellent technical service personnel working on all fronts of GPS service have well implemented this concept. The strategy of "countryside surrounding cities" in surveying and mapping instrument industry has won the recognition of many customers, and also won the opportunity of its own survival and development, effectively popularizing and upgrading the production technology and means of the industry.
Innovation: Challenges from Independent Development and Foreign Brands
Southern GPS has invested huge manpower and material resources in product and technology research and development, innovated products and constantly improved marketing, sales and service means. This series of continuous efforts has achieved remarkable results.
Since 1996, the company's products have changed from single to diverse, from simple to perfect, and followed or even surpassed the development of some imported products. 1996, the company produced the first generation of static GPS and put it on the market. 1998, the stable and mature NGS series static GPS in South China can compete with imported static surveying GPS. Since the end of 2002, the Polaris 9600 static machine launched by the company has been firmly at the top of the domestic market with the annual sales of 1.200 sets, and has driven domestic GPS to form a "one-size-fits-all" situation in the domestic static GPS market. In 2005, the powerful and mature Southern GPS began to enter the international market.
In high-end dynamic products, Southern GPS is also constantly innovating. From the first domestic differential GPS to the first domestic RTK GPS, and then to the RTK annual sales of 6,000 sets leading the domestic RTK market, the dynamic RTK has achieved the same impressive results as the static machine. The ultimate reason for all these successes is that the technical innovation and practicability of the products have been recognized by customers.
In the process of research and development, a large number of technological breakthroughs and innovations have made the whole machine functions of S86 and S82T reach the leading level at home and abroad. South R&D team innovatively put forward the working mode of S86 host with built-in radio and battery. This concept completely subverts the original working mode, making the original RTK reference station need at least two people to carry it to the workplace, and it is easy for a single person to carry it flexibly. The innovation similar to the built-in radio station is also reflected in more details of S86: the first host LCD operating system; The base shift of the built-in radio station can be switched at will to realize real base shift exchange; Seamless switching of network modules; Customized operating software ...
Freshness: a new cycle brought by independent innovation.
/kloc-in the past 0/2 years, southern GPS has come all the way, with failures and gains. Today's GPS products have also developed from the initial simplification to multi-directional and multi-field applications. Southern GPS has developed from a single static product to CORS and Beidou series products. Handset (S760), dual-frequency dynamic RTK (Ling Rui S82-2008, S82T), static series (Polaris 9600, Ling Rui S65), satellite station differential expansion (S35), sounder (SDE-28, SDE- 18), beacon (S30, 9308).
Southern GPS has promoted the popularization of static technology, and the ongoing popularization of RTK technology has also actively broken through the domestic CORS network RTK technology and begun to devote itself to its popularization. In 2009, Southern GPS people undertook the "Development of Domestic CORS Base Station" project under the National 863 Plan with their own strength and responsibility. Southern GPS people are repeatedly taking a path of breakthrough, development, innovation and popularization. I believe this constant rebirth can lead the future of GPS in South China.