The group's principal activities are to provide advance positioning product solutions to commercial and government users. It operates in five segments: engineering and construction, field solutions, mobile solutions, component technologies and portfolio technologies. Engineering and construction offers hardware and software product solutions used by survey and construction professionals. Field solutions addresses the two business areas of agriculture and geographical information system (gis). Mobile solutions provides the market for fleet management by providing a bundled solution component technologies provides components for applications that require embedded position or time based on gps technology. Portfolio technologies is an aggregation of operations and products like navigation modules and embedded sensors. The group has operations in the United States, Europe, Middle East Africa and Asia. The group acquired tracernet corporation in 2004.