Quectel QLM290P Consolidates High-Precision GNSS, RTK and LTE Design Onto a Single Ready-to-Integrate Platform

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 15, 2026--

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global end-to-end IoT solutions provider, today introduces the QLM290P, a smart antenna device that consolidates high-precision GNSS/RTK positioning, LoRa connectivity and global LTE connectivity, including a direct path to RTK correction services, onto a single pre-validated PCBA, providing developers with an integrated platform for precise positioning and both short- and long-range communications.

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Designed for organizations building robotics, precision agriculture, mining, surveying, and autonomous driving systems, the platform eliminates the time-consuming effort of designing, integrating, and validating separate GNSS RF circuitry, antenna subsystems, and cellular communication modules.

“The QLM290P represents a shift in how companies can approach high-precision positioning product development,” said Windy Fang, GNSS Product Director, Quectel Wireless Solutions. “Instead of spending months on RF design, antenna selection, and system validation, our customers can now drop a fully integrated, validated platform into their product and move straight to differentiation. That’s the difference between being first to market and watching competitors get there first.”

Building a high-precision positioning product ordinarily means designing GNSS RF circuitry, tuning an antenna, and integrating a separate cellular subsystem for RTK correction data, then validating it all together, a process that drains engineering resources and adds technical risk. The QLM290P collapses these efforts into a single, ready-to-integrate platform, enabling customers to start from a working positioning solution rather than from individual components.

Integrated cellular connectivity provides a direct path to NTRIP/RTK correction services, eliminating the need for a separate communications subsystem and simplifying field deployment.

The platform can be configured as either a base station or a rover station via the embedded LTE module, making it adaptable across different applications and regional requirements, whether a manufacturer is building autonomous tractors for precision agriculture, survey-grade equipment for civil engineering, or navigation systems for mining vehicles.

For a robotics company developing autonomous outdoor navigation systems, for example, the QLM290P means engineering teams can focus on application-layer software and system integration rather than wrestling with RF design and antenna tuning.

About Quectel

Quectel’s passion for a smarter world drives us to accelerate IoT innovation. A highly customer-centric organization, we are a global end-to-end IoT solutions provider backed by outstanding support and services.

With a worldwide team of over 8,900 professionals, we lead the way in delivering end-to-end IoT solutions, spanning cellular, GNSS, satellite, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules, high-performance antennas, value-added services and full turnkey offerings including ODM services and system integration.

With regional offices and support across the globe, our international leadership is devoted to advancing IoT and helping build a smarter world.

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Quectel QLM290P consolidates high-precision GNSS, RTK and LTE design onto a single ready-to-integrate platform

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia's foreign ministers exchanged opening statements in Singapore on Tuesday at the first meeting to settle a sea border dispute under a U.N. agreement on maritime law for compulsory conciliation.

At issue is territory claimed by both that is believed to contain large, exploitable amounts of natural gas and other hydrocarbons.

The decision to take the matter to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, was triggered by Cambodia in June after Thailand terminated a 25-year-old memorandum of understanding meant to resolve overlapping maritime claims.

Thailand’s decision to revoke the agreement came unilaterally after a sharp deterioration in relations and armed combat with Cambodia last year. The Southeast Asian neighbors fought over competing claims to territory along the land border in July and December. Several dozen civilians and soldiers on both sides were killed and hundreds of thousands of people displaced.

Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow and his Cambodian counterpart Prak Sokhonn led their delegations in the first conciliation meeting with the five-member UNCLOS commission, held in Singapore from Monday to Wednesday.

Cambodia called for a peaceful resolution, which “serves the peoples of both nations and contributes to peace, cooperation and shared prosperity in the region,” Prak Sokhonn said in his statement Tuesday.

He said Cambodia was compelled to consider other peaceful options and chose to initiate the UNCLOS proceedings “in keeping with its commitment to the rule of law and to the peaceful settlement of disputes.”

Sihasak said Thailand has been unwavering in its commitment to uphold international law and peaceful settlement in disputes. He argued that the revoked agreement “had produced no concrete progress,” as the two countries managed to hold only two meetings over a period of 25 years.

He said Thailand wished to “give negotiations a fresh start,” and that it had offered Cambodia an opportunity to hold direct talks, which Cambodia disregarded, before moving on to the UNCLOS conciliation process.

“Thailand stands ready to engage in this process constructively, with the aim of achieving, with the Commission’s assistance, a negotiated and equitable solution,” the Thai foreign minister said.

A fragile ceasefire between the two countries was agreed in late December, but tensions continue with sporadic incidents and large-scale deployment of military forces.

Any UNCLOS ruling isn’t binding on the parties involved, even though both countries are signatories to the international pact.

Thailand has been averse to having territorial issues decided by third parties rather than handled bilaterally. It has long felt a 1962 ruling by the International Court of Justice awarding Cambodia the hilltop Preah Vihear temple along their border to be unfair, contributing to ongoing tensions between the neighbors.

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Sopheng Cheang reported from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow, center, prepares to attend the first meeting of a conciliation commission between Thailand and Cambodia under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, in Singapore Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (Thailand Foreign Ministry via AP)