Thanks Dave. Hi guys. I'm Jason Hill, I'm with Trimble. This is James McKaskill. Hi. My lovely assistant for the evening. James will be playing more of a major role in this in about an hour's time, when we would do some hands-on stuff. As Dave said here, we're from Trimble. It's an American-based company. I'll get into that soon. The CTCT part that you see by our titles is Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies. So, Trimble actually has a joint venture with Caterpillar, the guys that make bulldozers. So, what we do is actually apply all the technology from the Trimble side to the heavy machinery and automate the heavy machinery for loading construction type jobs or heavy civil construction jobs. [inaudible] a little bit about that today. So, in terms of what we're going to be covering today, I'll give you guys a bit of an overview on Trimble. A little bit about GNSS or GPS, which is really at the core of what Trimble has been about since 1978. More on civil engineering and construction, which is the part that James and I really represent within Trimble. Then we'll get specifically into machine grade control, which is really what CTCT is about which is the part of the joint venture that James and I work for. We got some details there on the grade control stuff's going to be about. A little bit about predictive analytics. A little bit about security. Some of this is tying into the Industrial Internet of Things theme obviously, unmanned aircraft systems, augmented reality, and then you guys are going to get to choose some hands-on stuff. We've got a whole bunch of equipment up here with James that you guys are going to get to have a play with and assemble. Dave tells me you've just done a tear down analysis, so you're going to get a chance to put some stuff back together and see how it works. Then I've actually got a Microsoft Hollolens, but those that we had earlier they might have seen me wearing it. You guys are going to get to have play with it, experiment with it, see what you think. If you haven't used one before, it's pretty neat, have a go some movement of reality. From New Zealand, we got Brendon McCullum, for those who follow the cricket. Dave doesn't know what that is, that's American. I speak a little fast, but if you've got questions please ask and James will help answer. I'm the marketing guy, he's engineering guy. Okay. So, Trimble started in 1978, so it's been around for a while now. Charlie Trimble used to work at Hewlett Packard. This is back in the era when GPS was just getting started. Charlie could see the future and he thought, yeah, there's going to be some money in GPS. Hewlett Packard didn't seem to see it the same as him, so Charlie thought, okay well, I'll leave and got the mind thing and started up Trimble. It was known as Trimble Navigation. These days we're just Trimble Inc. Certainly, more from just being a GPS company now more into a company that's melding the digital and physical worlds. So, anywhere people are doing work, you'll find Trimble in that zone. Head office is in Sunnyvale in California. It's about 8,000 employees now. Actually, I should update that, and about 2.65 million in revenue last year. So, that's getting to this sizable company. Pretty diverse background in terms of how we apply the technologies, right? So, we've got a lot of other services in the agriculture space, so precision agriculture. So, applying GPS technology onto big farms. From traditional stuff like what we can show here today, guidance and steering for those trek. There's always implements through the yield monitoring. So, if you're measuring chlorophyll on the leaves of plants to know when it's time to harvest, finding out what parts of the paddy need more water, so moisture management, and then actually selectively controlling the nozzles on a big center pivot irrigation, so we actually only applying them the correct amount of water, same with fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides. Construction and operation. So, we'll get more into that during the slides because that's really where we come in this construction area. But you can go all the way through from alignment, through some maintenance and I'll get through some of that in more detail soon. Geo-spatial. This is really at the core of Trimble. Traditionally, this is the traditional GPS for a surveyor. It's really the first major commercial application for Trimble until the GPS. Natural resources has been getting more and more to this, especially things like forestry and environmental solutions over the years. Transportation, this has been a massive growth area for Trimble at the last five, six years or so. It's really getting more into the autonomy logistics, anything to do with vehicles on the road doing work, efficiency gains that you can draw it from the technology, a lot of IIoT in this space specifically. Electric gas, utilities water, a lot of time and frequency that seems like a pretty boring thing, but as you know a lot of it all comes down to the timing. GPS or GNSS is a pretty much a fantastic truth source for time. In fact, how do you determine? The number one ground station for GPS is actually just down the road in Nest. So, just very close to this campus. So, that's the cesium atomic clock that is I think it's clock number one for the GPS system is right here in town. Then, obviously, we play in the government space, a little bit in the military space as well. So, what is GNSS or GPS? I'm not going to assume that everybody knows that. So, most of us know the acronym GPS like Global Positioning System. We use that ubiquitously as the term for it when we actually mean is the Global Navigation Satellite System. It's a bit more of a mouthful, so we generally just say GPS. But GPS is just really the US system, right? You've got a bunch of other countries, they've got their own satellite systems that are up there doing navigation. Together, we would term that GNSS or Global Navigation Satellite System. So, GLONASS is the Russian system, Galileo out of the EU, BeiDou for China, QZSS for Japan, and the starter whose what's the one from India, IRNSS. So, India's got their own set constellation going up. So, the modern system is referred to as GNSS not just GPS. How does it work? So, a lot of people think it's angles, that's not. It's called trilateration. It's all about timing, that's measuring the time between the satellites and whatever is receiving it, whether it be a fine or you're dominant in the car or in our case like a high-end GNSS receiver from Trimble. I'm actually going to skip over the whiteboard, but do that at the end if anybody wants to get into it a bit more. But if you want to know more go and start reading about on wiki this code phase which is the main method that most about consumer-level devices used for deriving a position. On top of that, you can do something called carrier phase which is what Trimble gets into with a high-end receiver. Then there's different corrections sources. Some of you might have heard of SBAS or Space-based Augmentation Services. That's what the FAA uses for aircraft so that they can recognize more planes in the sky. All right. So, you've got base stations that can send out corrections to make your receiver more accurate space-based system, virtual reference stations. Something else I can explore at the end if anybody wants to know more on that. I'm just getting through this stuff because last year we went a bit long and we want to make time for the hands-on this year. So, on the right-hand side, there an example of a modern receiver from Trimble. So, 440 channels so that receiver can listen to 440 satellites at the same time. Just pretty impressive because if we go back. The best accuracy we're going to gain is when we get the most number of satellites. We're listening to routes. We're listening to GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and trying to listen to as many of those different satellites and those different constellations as we can, and then say locating an accuracy of data about three millimeters or 3/32 of an inch. So, super-type very small. All right. So, in terms of how what happens in the civil engineering and construction part of Trimble which is where we plug-in. So, think about someone who's going to put a new road and somewhere from say Longmont to Lyons, as an example of Boulder and Dimber. So, they're going to want to do some sort of feasibility planning. So, Trimble has a product called quantum, takes a lot of geographic information system and geological data into a database. You put the A and B points, basically, where you want to start, where you want to finish, and that software basically runs on a mainframe top computer set up. It will then go through and calculate based on the soil, the costs of roads, the costs of tunnels. This is information you put into the front-end. The software will go through and do alignment planning and come back with various options and the various costs associated with getting between points A and point B. So, at some point, you select which alignment you're going to go ahead and build. Get into some more detailed planning in the Novalpoint and TILOS software, detailed planning and turns into detailed design. Estimating bidding, you're getting to the point now where you're putting out tenders for people to come in and actually start doing the work. Some manage selected to do the work, so you get more detailed planning and scheduling. Then, phase six is where we come in with our stuff, right? So, now the big heavy machinery, the big yellow bits of iron rolling into the site, and that's when we start moving dirt and that's where the machine control stuff really makes a difference. So, we'll get into that in more detail. Then obviously, step seven at the in some sign off to say that she built what you said you were going to build and it's where it should be and it's accurate. So, yeah really step six is what we'll dig into here.
