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play solution for mining vehicles. Under NGen’s Moonshot 4 Mining,
Minerals and Manufacturing (M4M3) initiative, Canada seeks to
develop dual-use technologies for both terrestrial and lunar settings,
with an emphasis on innovations being asset-light and scalable.
At its baseline, Geoforge’s proprietary algorithms enable real-time
localization within mines without the need for satellite-based GPS or
other network infrastructure (e.g. Wi-Fi, UWB and RFID). Space is a
new and foreign frontier, but we believe that the funding will enable
us to 昀椀gure out the answers. Within terrestrial mines, we envision
Geoforge to further integrate with mobility technologies like Collision
Avoidance, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Autonomous
Driving, and we can’t wait to see how that would be applied to lunar
mining too!
What do you estimate to be the size of the intelligent mobility
management market in Canada, and how are industrial sustainability
trends impacting the company’s potential?
Autonomous driving as a whole had an entire hype cycle about
昀椀ve years back, with many service providers like Cruise and Apple
rethinking their foray into the mobility sector. However, we see
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