SparkFun has introduced one other entry in its high-accuracy surveying ecosystem, the RTK Reference Station — designed to behave as a Networked Transport of RTCM through Web Protocol (NTRIP) server for the corporate’s Actual-Time Kinematics (RTK) location merchandise.
“It ought to come as no shock that we love surveying instruments and we put a number of pleasure and energy into these we create right here at SparkFun Electronics,” says SparkFun’s Chris McCarty of the launch. “Due to all of you who use our RTK Surveyors, Expresses, or Sides, we have been proven a course and drive to create extra choices so that you can use. Immediately, we announce our latest product to hitch this line primarily based in your suggestions. Meet the SparkFun RTK Reference Station!”
SparkFun has launched the RTK Reference Station, a high-performance GNSS receiver designed to behave as a NTRIP server. (📷: SparkFun)
The SparkFun RTK Reference Station is designed to do precisely what it feels like: function a fixed-position reference level for cell RTK gadgets. Inside its SparkFun-red housing is an Espressif ESP32-WROOM module and a u-blox ZED-F9P multi-band International Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) receiver. There is a 10/100 Ethernet port with Energy-over-Ethernet help, a microSD slot, and a Microchip ATECC608A cryptographic co-processor.
“This machine can be utilized in a number of modes,” McCarty provides, “together with: GNSS Base Station with NTRIP [where] RTCM [differential GPS] corrections are despatched to a Caster over Ethernet; Community Time Protocol (NTP) server, offering high-accuracy timing information to different machines through an Ethernet community; GNSS Positioning Receiver (~30cm accuracy), often known as ‘Rover’; GNSS Positioning with RTK (1.4cm accuracy), often known as ‘Rover with RTK Repair’, utilizing NTRIP RTCM correction information over Ethernet or out of your telephone through Bluetooth; [and] GNSS NMEA/UBX TCP Shopper, sending NMEA and/or UBX navigation information to a distant server utilizing TCP over Ethernet.”
The Reference Station is claimed to be the corporate’s “most succesful” GNSS receiver but. (📷: SparkFun)
The corporate claims that the RTK Reference Station is constructed with pace in thoughts: the microSD storage is linked to the ESP32 over a four-bit Safe Digital Enter/Output (SDIO) interface “offering an order of magnitude enchancment in learn and write pace,” McCarty says, whereas the u-blox GNSS module makes use of a high-speed SPI interface succesful. “Wish to log RAWX and SFRBX from all constellations at 20Hz,” McCarty asks. “With this product, you possibly can!”
The SparkFun RTK Reference Station is now out there on the corporate’s retailer at $699.95 earlier than quantity reductions, with extra data out there within the firm’s hookup information.