Take Your Tasks to New Heights with SparkFun RTK EVK – Information

Hey 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 completely happy to introduce all of you to the brand new SparkFun RTK EVK. This enclosed GNSS platform is ideal improvement platform to your fastened or cell high-precision positioning and navigation wants. Let leap in and take a better have a look at it, we could?

The latest enclosed RTK possibility is now obtainable!

Designed and manufactured in Boulder, Colorado, USA, the SparkFun RTK EVK (Analysis Package) is the proper improvement platform to your fastened or cell 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 Package) because it actually 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!

Beneath the hood, the RTK EVK relies 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 gives L-Band reception and entry to correction providers resembling PointPerfect. The u-blox LARA-R6001D gives international mobile connectivity; insert your nano SIM into the entrance panel, and away you go! A built-in USB hub gives direct entry to all three u-blox modules if wanted – very helpful for firmware updates! A WIZnet W5500 gives 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 In every single 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. Nevertheless, the firmware would not but assist LARA-R6 mobile. So, we have written and examined additional code examples that may permit you to stream MQTT correction knowledge from a u-blox PointPerfect Localized Distribution subject by way of 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 gadget, plug it into Ethernet or give the gadget 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 numerous components of Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Korea (see the protection map). The newest RTK In every single place firmware helps each localized distribution and AssistNow. The RTK EVK features a one month free subscription to PointPerfect L-Band+IP – masking each L-Band corrections from the inbuilt NEO-D9S and localized corrections delivered by IP. Further subscriptions will be bought if desired. If PointPerfect protection will not be obtainable in your space, corrections from a neighborhood base station or service will be offered to the gadget over NTRIP (delivered by way of Ethernet, Bluetooth or WiFi).

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