GSE Industrial Design: GSatSolar Part 4, Modular Mounting
Series Overview
This industrial design series is a great opportunity for us to show off the design processes we go through at GSE when we're creating new hardware products. This is part 4 of a six part series that points the spotlight at our new low-cost tracking terminal, the GSatSolar. If you have not read the other articles in this series, I suggest starting with the introduction piece by clicking here, because it has important information...
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GSE Industrial Design: GSatSolar Part 3, Designing for Proper Use
Series Overview
This industrial design series is a great opportunity for us to show off the design processes we go through at GSE when we're creating new hardware products. This is part 3 of a six part series that points the spotlight at our new low-cost tracking terminal, the GSatSolar. If you have not read the other articles in this series, I suggest starting with the introduction piece by clicking here, because it has important information...
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GSE Industrial Design: GSatSolar Part 2, Shape and Aesthetics
Series Overview
This industrial design series is a great opportunity for us to show off the design processes we go through at GSE when we're creating new hardware products. This is part 2 of a six part series that points the spotlight at our new low-cost tracking terminal, the GSatSolar. If you have not read the other articles in this series, I suggest starting with the introduction piece by clicking here, because it has important information...
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Ranching Intelligence with West Sky Technology
When Global Satellite Engineering began working on the GSatSolar, we knew the technological pieces required to deliver a solar unit in a small form factor. Considering our own CEO Jeff Palmer had been a member of 4H in his youth, and still enjoys sharing stories of his successes at cattle competitions, we knew that with our goal to revolutionize the agricultural world and provide a product that ranchers and farmers alike would find useful, we...
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GSE Industrial Design: GSatSolar Part 1, Introduction to the Process
As you have no doubt seen by now, we are very close to launching the GSatSolar, a tracking terminal we have been developing for low-intelligence-requirement applications across multiple markets. GSE has historically applied its engineering expertise to intelligent hardware, placing emphasis on behavior tracking and telematics. This terminal gives us a new offering for "limited data matters" customers who do not necessarily need the full...
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Monitor. Manage. Maximize.
Tracking for Everyone
GSatTrack is Part of Any Best in Class Solution
GSatTrack is an incredibly powerful telematics visualization platform, and its reputation in the industry is beginning to precede any conversations we have with potential clients. While that is very exciting for us, it is also an opportunity to make sure everyone fully understands exactly why customers, partners, and resellers across dozens of markets refuse to work with...
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Snow Season Telematics
Every year, snowfall accumulates on over 3 million acres of North America, covering nearly 70% of its population in snow. The effects of this precipitation impact the US with nearly 76,000 people injured in traffic accidents each year. In Canada, 30% of all automobile accidents are specifically attributed to snowfall. Beyond safety, snowy roadways also present a tremendously negative effect on commerce and infrastructure.
To ensure the smallest...
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GSatTrack and satellite-based systems aid wildfire prevention tactics
In the spring of 2019, I wrote a case study on how monitoring chipper data and harvesting forest fuel could reduce forest fires. Little did I know during the next 18 months the world would see catastrophic fires across the globe. In August of 2019 the Amazon was seeing over 1000 fires a day. By January of 2020, over 46 million acres had burnt across all Australian states and territories leaving countless homeless including millions of animals....
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Construction Companies use GSatTrack for BIM
Most GIS systems incorporate mapping imagery or layers is by purchasing licenses from a single mapping provider. This provider may also offer additional historical satellite imagery for use by the GIS provider, but the images provided may be antiquated or out of date, with recent construction or natural events which change the natural landscape and topography of an area omitted. To address this, clients often opt to use their own imagery in...
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Product Management and Growth in the Satellite Industry
Product Managing for Satellite
Coming to work for GSE two years ago is one of the best decisions I have ever made. Truly a unicorn in its industry, GSE has unlocked the secret to operating successfully in an industry that rewards stability and legacy systems while simultaneously investing in the tools, products, and initiatives that get ahead of the market.
What, exactly, does it really take to succeed as a product manager in the satellite...
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