Hiya everybody and welcome again to a different Friday Product Publish right here at SparkFun Electronics! This week, we solely have a single product, however we promise that it is a large one! We’re comfortable to introduce all of you to the brand new SparkFun RTK EVK. This enclosed GNSS platform is ideal improvement platform to your mounted or cellular high-precision positioning and navigation wants. Let leap in and take a better have a look at it, we could?
The latest enclosed RTK choice is now out there!
Designed and manufactured in Boulder, Colorado, USA, the SparkFun RTK EVK (Analysis Equipment) is the right improvement platform to your mounted or cellular high-precision positioning and navigation wants. Concerning connectivity, the SparkFun RTK EVK has all of it: WiFi / Bluetooth®, Ethernet and LTE mobile! We known as it the EVK (Analysis Equipment) because it really covers all of the choices: L1 + L2 RTK GNSS, with L-Band correction built-in if wanted, operating on an agile processor with reminiscence to spare!
Below the hood, the RTK EVK is predicated on the Espressif ESP32-WROVER processor with 16MB flash and 8MB PSRAM. The GNSS is the superb dual-band (L1 + L2) ZED-F9P from u-blox. The built-in u-blox NEO-D9S offers L-Band reception and entry to correction companies reminiscent of PointPerfect. The u-blox LARA-R6001D offers world mobile connectivity; insert your nano SIM into the entrance panel, and away you go! A built-in USB hub offers direct entry to all three u-blox modules if wanted – very useful for firmware updates! A WIZnet W5500 offers 10 / 100 megabit Ethernet connectivity; PoE is supported, too. Information storage is microSD. The OLED show is 1.3 inches with 128×64 crisp white pixels.
The RTK EVK comes pre-loaded with our RTK All over the place firmware. The firmware will allow you to do many issues: configure the EVK as an RTK Base and push corrections to an NTRIP Caster over WiFi or Ethernet; configure the EVK as an RTK Rover and use corrections delivered over WiFi, Bluetooth or Ethernet. Nonetheless, the firmware would not but help LARA-R6 mobile. So, we have written and examined additional code examples that may assist you to stream MQTT correction knowledge from a u-blox PointPerfect Localized Distribution matter through the LARA-R6 mobile chip. This instance demonstrates how straightforward it’s to subscribe to PointPerfect and solely obtain the IP correction knowledge you want to your location, minimizing mobile knowledge prices.
The RTK EVK features a function we name Zero-Contact RTK. Register the machine, plug it into Ethernet or give the machine the WiFi credentials for a sizzling spot or different WiFi community, allow PointPerfect, and it’ll start getting corrections with none additional setup. No NTRIP credentials required! These corrections are obtained over Ethernet or WiFi from u-blox PointPerfect and can be found within the US, EU, and varied elements of Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Korea (see the protection map). The newest RTK All over the place firmware helps each localized distribution and AssistNow. The RTK EVK features a one month free subscription to PointPerfect L-Band+IP – protecting each L-Band corrections from the inbuilt NEO-D9S and localized corrections delivered by IP. Extra subscriptions might be bought if desired. If PointPerfect protection just isn’t out there in your space, corrections from a neighborhood base station or service might be offered to the machine over NTRIP (delivered through Ethernet, Bluetooth or WiFi).
That is it for this week. As at all times, we will not wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or tell us on Instagram, Fb or LinkedIn. Please be protected on the market, be type to 1 one other! We’ll be again with extra new merchandise subsequent week so ensure that to examine again then. Pleased hacking!
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