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GLONASS Union develops an international cooperation with India and UAE

In January-February of 2015 some delegates of GLONASS Union held a couple of business trips aimed to develop of an international cooperation in the field of satellite navigation.

Meetings with the leaders of the market of navigation and information services were held in India. Specialists of GLONASS Union discussed with Indian colleagues about the possibility of implementing of joint projects to use GLONASS technologies. At present, India is actively developing of the market of telematics services, the most popular of which are equipping of taxi and large commercial companies. Also Indian government customers, including police, demonstrate a high interest in using of navigation technologies.

"Russian satellite navigation technologies would be used in Indian road toll systems, accidents emergency response systems, asset management," - said GLONASS Union President Alexander Gurko. – "In the near future together with leading members of Indian navigation market we will prepare a proposal of cooperation for automakers and will discuss the possibility of a pilot project in one of the central states of the country."

Also during the visit delegates of the GLONASS Union held meetings with professional communities of Indian programmers for the development and production of GLONASS/IRNSS navigation module.

The Republic of India is actively developing new industries, such as space exploration and information technology. Currently India is developing a project to create the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). Joint development and production of GLONASS/IRNSS navigation receivers will help to create an effective industry of navigation and information services in the region, as well as to successfully scale of  domestic developments.

Also experts of GLONASS Union visited the United Arab Emirates, where they held meetings with a number of IT-companies and discussed a possibility of testing of GLONASS-based navigation and information devices in the UAE. The first tests will be started in the near future after choosing of potential partners that have a proper basic infrastructure.

"According to information from our partners, currently the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi are considering of the deployment of police force control systems based on satellite navigation technologies", - says GLONASS Union Head of International Projects Alexander Bondarenko. "- We will present the ERA-GLONASS system in the UAE, as well as prepare cooperation proposals for to potential customers. "