Calian cuts time to marketplace for its Sensible Antenna by two-thirds with Level One Navigation

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Calian’s Sensible Antenna is provided with the Polaris RTK community from Level One. | Supply: Level One Navigation

Calian, a longtime supplier of correct and interference-free information from World Navigation Satellite tv for pc Programs (GNSS), has mixed its Sensible Antenna with Level One Navigation’s Polaris RTK community. The businesses stated that by providing the 2 collectively, Calian can provide excessive precision in a single, streamlined bundle. 

Calian gives information for numerous purposes, from precision agriculture to autonomous automobiles. Irrespective of how clear the sign is, nonetheless, GNSS has its limitations. This implies the firm wanted further corrections to attain true precision. With RTK, positioning accuracy could be improved to about one centimeter, stated Calian.

It mixed its premium antennas with and Level One Navigation’s receivers to create “sensible antennas.” These antennas provide extra choices for attaining precision positioning. Calian claimed that this affords customers an all-in-one, real-time positioning system that may present correct measurements. 

“It’s one factor to work with people who find themselves deploying their very own base stations and their very own networks, however Level One has a reasonably universally accessible, glorious Community RTK service,” acknowledged Gordon Echlin, director of enterprise improvement for sensible antennas at Calian. “We wished to have the ability to faucet into that and make that accessible to our prospects for this new sensible antenna.”

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Level One makes scaling operations simpler, Calian says

The businesses stated that Level One’s know-how makes it simpler for finish customers to maneuver or scale operations. Inside the U.S., the Polaris community permits prospects to maneuver throughout state traces with out having to arrange or reconnect to a brand new community. 

Exterior of the U.S., Polaris’ built-in local-datum capabilities allow fast conversion to the related datum for the top consumer’s explicit location. Level One says that irrespective of the place the shopper is situated, as soon as it’s established with Polaris, the system robotically works wherever the shopper goes throughout the service space. 

Calian stated that including RTK gives excessive accuracy, upholding its core worth proposition. This additional layer of connection, nonetheless, requires further integrations and setup, to not point out reliance on a third-party RTK community. If any of these falters, the ensuing measurements and consumer expertise will endure. 

“With different options, we needed to obtain an encryption key and put it within the antenna. We don’t want to do this with Polaris,” Echlin stated. “You simply use the NTRIP consumer, you configure your antenna as a base or a rover, authenticate with Polaris, and also you’re working — in minutes.”

Based in 2016, Level One has over 40,000 energetic units per day in 29 international locations. It stated its positioning API is 100 occasions extra correct than GPS, and has protection within the U.S., the EU, the U.Ok., Australia, South Korea, and extra.