Our DNA

Market Leadership


Orolia product brands are consistently in the Top 1 or 2 in worldwide market share due to their solid reputation, high-quality and demonstrated reliability.

“Thinking globally expands our reach. But acting locally is what sets us apart.”

Jean-Yves Courtois, CEO

Innovation


Orolia has a proven track record for being first to market with state-of-the art, cutting-edge, innovative solutions that shape the industries in which we operate.

“Innovation is the fuel that propels our Orolia product development engine.”

Jonas Olsen, VP Corporate Development

Global Footprint
 

Orolia’s thousands of customers and partners in over 100 countries around the world, are supported by a global sales, marketing and service organization with customer-satisfaction top-of-mind.

“A satisfied customer is a customer for life – this is the foundation of our Orolia go-to-market strategy."

Rohit Braggs, Chief Operating Officer

Innovation

Instead of relying on a "eureka moment," Orolia carefully evaluates customer needs and develops innovative solutions that deliver exceptional results.

Orolia has a proven track record of being first to market with state-of-the art, cutting-edge, innovative solutions and has received prestigious awards around the world for those innovations :

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2018: Orolia signs 20 year ELT agreement with Airbus Helicopters
tile_VersaPNT-363.jpg2017: Orolia Introduces VersaPNT, Assured PNT for Battlefield Navigation
tile_700x405_2sm.jpg2017: Orolia Receives Two 2017 Platinum ASTORS Awards for Best Resilient PNT Solution and Best SAR Satellite Ground System
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2017: Orolia Wins U.S. Search and Rescue Technology Awards with the Best Search and Rescue and the Best Man Overboard Tracking devices.
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2017: McMurdo’s world first AIS EPIRB wins 2017 British Marine Electrical and Electronics Association product of the year award
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2016: Orolia to provide location and timing data independent from traditional GPS and other GNSS satellite signals, with Satelles Agreement
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2016: European Commission Chooses McMurdo to Lead Development of Next-Generation Search and Rescue Beacon
 
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2015: Introducing McMurdo SARBE CommLink State of the art Wireless Intercom System
 
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2015: McMurdo Experience Center opens – the first showcase for end-to-end search and rescue and maritime domain awareness solutions
 
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2013: Spectracom’s GSG-55 GPS Signal Simulator is nominated for "Best in Test " by Test & Measurement World Magazine.
 
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2013: Kannad Aviation reveals the ‘ARINC e-Nav’ interface, the 1st distress beacon to be coupled to the GPS on-board aircraft (Integra)
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2013: McMurdo Introduced the first AIS Man Overboard (MOB) Alarm Notification System integrating beacons and fleet/vessel monitoring software
 
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2012: The "man overboard" system, SafeLink R10 SRS by McMurdo won the 2012 Pittman, a prestigious prize awarded by SAIL magazine to recognize the best innovations in support of the maritime market.
 
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2011: First operational MEOLUT (Satellite Local User Terminal for MEOSAR)
 
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2011: Spectracom Introduced the SecureSync® modular time and frequency synchronization system.
 
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2011: McMurdo launches the world’s first AIS Man Overboard device
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2010: First 406MHz Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) to include an internal GPS and 406MHz antenna. Eurocopter and Kannad Aviation received a prize for this co-development
 
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2010: The FAST FIND 210 personal location beacon wins the “Boating Product of 2010” at the Helsinki Boat Show.
 
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2009: McMurdo launches the FastFind 210, the first compact Personal Locator Beacon (PLB)
 

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2008: SpectraTime : the 1st Passive Hydrogen Maser launched in Giove B (Galileo). This successful test validating the world most stable atomic clocks in orbit
 
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2005: McMurdo introduces the FastFind, the first Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) for use outside of the commercial market
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2001: McMurdo introduces the FastFind 406MHz PLB, one of the first commercial PLBs
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1999: McMurdo launches the revolutionary E3 EPIRB – the first to be aimed at the leisure and commercial markets
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1998: Boatracs introduces the first Vessel Management System with messaging used by a major US fishery
 
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1992: Spectracom Introduced the NetClock® master clock that now equips 95% of the US 911 call centers
 
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1980: Techno-Sciences, Inc. introduces first LEOLUT prototype
 
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1972: Spectracom founded first products used wireless timing signals to synchronize oscillators as a low-cost alternative to atomic clock accuracy.