Calian’s smart GNSS antenna software development kits bundle our high precision dual band smart GNSS antennas with one year of free Polaris RTK corrections service and our TruPrecision GNSS dashboard/configuration tool to deliver an unmatched onboarding experience for cm-level PNT system developers and integrators.
Unbox, plug the smart GNSS antenna into your PC via USB, sign into Polaris RTK and establish your cm-level GNSS environment within minutes. Use TruPrecision to validate your designs, then move right to production with Calian’s highly reliable, repeatable and robust smart GNSS antennas.
The cm-level accuracy revolution
Cm-level positioning has become increasingly “table-stakes” in many mobile workflows, such as precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection and precision task performance auditing. The transformation has been enabled by 20 years of GNSS technology improvement, such as new satellite constellations and frequencies, affordable GNSS receivers, advances in GNSS antenna technology and ready availability of real time kinematic (RTK) reference networks for corrections services.
Although the technology is readily available, there are potential pitfalls which can quickly result in suboptimal performance, such as lower accuracy and failure to maintain consistent location fix. Among the most underrated of these are:
- Safeguarding the GNSS receiver from system generated noise impairments.
- Lack of adequate corrections network accessibility and density
Avoiding missteps
Safeguarding the GNSS receiver is one of the primary value propositions of Calian’s smart GNSS antennas. By integrating the receiver on the antenna thus protecting the antenna to receiver signal path, then presenting PNT information to the rest of the system across a digital link, Calian protects the integrity of the GNSS information from almost any impairment the system can cause. This relieves developers of most of the burden of constraining radio frequency emissions that could otherwise easily be induced into the antenna/receiver path without careful design.
Adequate corrections network accessibility and density is an important consideration in any real-world deployment as it affects the consistency of GNSS accuracy across many geographies. It requires a commercial service provider and is primarily a function of the density of the corrections network in a service provider’s coverage footprint. To that end, Point One Navigation is one of the pre-eminent service providers with high continental density across the U.S., U.K., EU, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
By choosing Calian’s smart GNSS antennas and using one of our software development kits, developers can quickly and reliably evaluate expected performance for their chosen positioning navigation and timing (PNT) solution with confidence that readily testable results will be consistent with real system performance. How? Using a PNT appliance that operates independent of any other system consideration and easily accessing a corrections network that delivers a consistent result in broad terrestrial geographies. Point One Navigation and Calian deliver a true plug-and-play experience that eliminates the spectre of unexpected inadequate performance.
Pick from ceramic patch or lightweight helical antennas, u-blox F9 series or ST Teseo V receivers, onboard Inertial measurement unit or moving base precise heading.
Our PTONE SDK’s:
- TP5387SDK-PTONE: Accutenna Patch + ST Teseo V GNSS receiver on a Quectel LG69TAP module (IMU | RS-422 or RS232)
- TP5790SDK-PTONE: Accutenna Patch + u-Blox ZED-F9R (IMU | RS-232 or USB)
- TP5794SDK-PTONE: Accutenna Patch + u-Blox ZED-F9P (Moving Base Precise Heading | RS232 or USB)
- HCS885XFSDK-PTONE – Light AccuHelix Helical + uBlox NEO-F9P (Moving Base Precise Heading | RS232 or CMOS)
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