Trimble has expanded its positioning solutions offerings by acquiring best of breed technology companies. Below is a list of Trimble companies.
Advanced Public Safety, Inc. is a leading software development company creating targeted, innovative technology solutions specifically designed to address the challenges of today's public safety agencies. APS provides voice technologies, electronic forms/reporting applications, handheld solutions, and AVL/GPS/Mapping software to assist law enforcement and fire/EMS agencies. In addition, APS provides offender tracking and data analysis solutions to jail, corrections, and parole agencies. APS technology is currently used by approximately 20,000 officers across North America. More information can be found at www.aps.us
Applanix is an industry leader in the development and manufacture of integrated Inertial/GPS technology. The company's Position and Orientation Systems (POS™) are used worldwide for a variety of applications such as, aerial survey and mapping, remote sensing, road profiling, GIS data acquisition, and hydrographic surveying. More information on Applanix can be found at www.applanix.com
Cengea Solutions Inc. provides information technology-based business solutions for resource-based enterprises. Cengea serves forest products, agriculture, environment, utilities and government markets in North America and around the world. The company offers industry-leading raw material supply chain execution and optimization solutions for the agriculture and forest products sectors. These solutions enable its clients to make sustainable cost reductions and add value to their products by focusing on solving quality, productivity, compliance and operational business challenges. Cengea’s clients are of every size—some of the world’s largest and best-known, forest products, agribusiness and conservation organizations as well as small and medium-sized businesses and state and federal departments. The company’s 21-year history of serving spatial solutions around the globe puts Cengea in a unique position to understand and help address complex business issues. For more information, visit: www.cengea.com
Founded in 2008, Gatewing designs and provides one of the world's fastest and easiest to use remote sensing solutions for the surveying and mapping industry. Based on its revolutionary X100 lightweight unmanned aircraft, Gatewing has built a solution for rapid terrain mapping that consists of image acquisition field operation and fully digital and automated image processing. By making this technology highly accessible in terms of price and ease of use, Gatewing’s goal is to revolutionize the surveying and mapping industry. More information can be found at www.gatewing.com
Construction project management software from Meridian Systems allows building owners, construction and engineering firms, and government agencies to efficiently manage their capital projects, programs and facilities. Meridian has pioneered Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) technology that automates the Plan-Build-Operate project lifecycle, enabling building owners and operators to improve top-line revenue growth, while reducing capital project costs and schedules. Meridian has become the industry standard for successful construction project delivery, and is ranked as the market share leader for project management and collaboration software by Constructech magazine, and by the CFMA among general contractors larger than $101 million in revenue. For more information on Meridian, go to www.meridiansystems.com
Pacific Crest is a leading supplier of wireless data communication solutions designed for positioning and remote sensing applications. It also specializes in reselling Trimble's high precision GPS receivers to system integrators for a variety of positioning applications. Its products are based on innovative technologies that are optimized for maximum dependability, accuracy and performance. Pacific Crest provides a total customer solution that reduces the overall size, cost, and complexity of critical data communications and positioning systems. Founded in 1994, with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Pacific Crest maintains a strong international presence in the data communications and GPS positioning industries. More information about Pacific Crest can be found at www.pacificcrest.com
PeopleNet is focused on providing innovative Internet-based and integrated onboard computing and mobile communications systems to improve North America's trucking industry's fleet management. Its products are used by nearly 1,500 truckload, LTL, private, and service fleets in the U.S. and Canada, including several Fortune 500 companies. Reputed for its customer-driven technological innovation, unparalleled flexibility, and proactive customer care, PeopleNet was the first technology provider to offer Internet-based communications to the transportation industry 15 years ago. Since then, the company has developed new products that continue to improve fleet management. More information can be found at www.peoplenetonline.com
Founded in 1980, Plancal of Horgen, Switzerland, develops and markets software solutions for the Mechanical and HVAC trades. Plancal is a leading 3D CAD/CAE and ERP software provider for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industries in western Europe. The solutions are tailored to meet the industry- and country-specific standards and practices as well as the workflow methods of engineers, designers and installers. Plancal has development sites in Bonn, Germany and Horgen, Switzerland as well as regional sales and service organizations in Switzerland (Plancal AG in Horgen near Zurich and Plancal SA, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne), in Germany (Plancal GmbH, Bonn with sales and support offices in Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg), in Austria (Plancal GmbH, Amstetten), France (Plancal SARL, Lyon) and a branch office in London, UK. For more information on Plancal, visit www.plancal.com or www.plancal.ch
SECO was founded in 1944 as a retail supplier of products and services for local and regional surveyors. In 1977 the Company's focus migrated from retail service to design, manufacturing and distribution. SECO has become a leading manufacturer of accessories for the surveying and construction industries. The Company’s products are available through more than 900 dealers worldwide. For more information, visit www.surveying.com
Tekla is a leading provider of Building Information Modeling ("BIM") software, with more than 5,000 customers worldwide in the construction industry. Tekla also offers model driven solutions for customers in the infrastructure and energy industries (in particular energy distribution, public administration and civil engineering and utilities). Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, with a U.S. office in Atlanta, Georgia, Tekla has operations in 15 countries worldwide. More information can be found atwww.tekla.com
Visual Statement provides state-of-the-art desktop software tools for crime and collision incident investigation, analysis and reconstruction, as well as state-wide enterprise solutions for reporting and analysis used by public safety agencies. Visual Statement currently supports over 4,500 law enforcement agencies and consultants, and approximately 30,000 users in Canada, US, Spain, Greece, Mexico, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya, and many other countries worldwide. For more information, visit: www.visualstatement.com