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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | GNSS |
| Founded | 2000; 25 years ago (2000) |
| Founder | Peter Grognard |
| Headquarters | Leuven,Belgium |
Key people | Antoon De Proft,CEO |
| Products | GNSS receivers |
| Owner | Hexagon AB |
Number of employees | about 120 |
| Website | http://www.septentrio.com |
Septentrio N.V. is a designer and manufacturer of high-end multi-frequencyGNSS receivers. Its main target is to provide GNSS receiver boards andmodules for further system integration byoriginal equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Its core technology is used in various professional fields such as land and airbornesurveying,mobile mapping, machine control,precision agriculture,mining,transport,offshore applications,construction,timing andgeodesy etc.
The company was incorporated by Peter Grognard inLeuven,Belgium, in January 2000 to commercialize theSatellite Navigation know-how developed at theInteruniversity Micro Electronics Center, the largest independentmicroelectronics andnanotechnology R&D lab inBelgium.
In 2007 the firm received theTrends Gazelle award for the fastest rate of growth among Belgian start-up companies.
In January 2025,Hexagon AB announced that they would acquire Septentrio N.V.[1] This transaction was completed two months later.[2]
Septentrio's headquarters are located inLeuven,Belgium. Operations for North and Latin American are based inTorrance,CA and the Asian-Pacific operations are based inShanghai andYokohama.
Septentrio has an international team of experts, who cover all the fields ofSatellite Navigation technology. The company designs its ownchipsets,hardware,firmware andalgorithms. Being a provider of high-end receivers for professional use, Septentrio prioritizes the reliability andprecision of measurements as well as high degree of flexibility and user control. Septentrio’s products make use of APME, the company’s originalmultipath-mitigation technology, on-the-fly ambiguity fixing schemes based on theLAMBDA method, and advanced user-controlledRAIM algorithms. Septentrio is also known to first introduce single-boardattitude determination systems based on the multi-antenna version of itsGPS receivers.
Septentrio’s receivers were used to track experimentalGalileo signals transmitted by theGIOVE-A satellite and were also the first to track the signals of the first experimental satellite of the future ChineseCompass 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.