GPS World, February 2018

LAUNCHPAD OEM 1 LOCATION ARCHITECTURE LOCATES MOBILE DEVICES MOVING INDOORS AND OUTDOORS Leveraging ubiquitous LTE signals the Lite Touch Architecture calculates positioning in the cloud to efficiently locate devices between indoor and outdoor environments By offloading computationheavy location calculations from the device to the cloud the PoLTE positioning solution makes location positioning available to a wider variety of devices including those constrained by battery life memory processing power size and cost This includes IoT based applications that historically relied on GPS with its high rate of power consumption as well as Wi Fi and Bluetooth with their added size cost and network complexity PoLTE www PoLTE com 2 TIME SERVER ENHANCED FOR ETHERNET NETWORKS SATELLITE UPLINKS Enhancements to the SyncServer S600 series of time servers and instruments improve time synchronization over enterprise Ethernet networks and supply timing signals for improved military radar operations and satellite uplink communications The SyncServer S600 series also meets the timing and synchronization needs of the rapidly evolving networks of enterprise and financial customers particularly for compliance purposes such as the European MiFID II directive which specifies highly stringent time accuracy requirements for stock trading systems The latest release includes support for the IEEE 1588 multiport multi profile Precision Time Protocol PTP which allows the S600 to operate as an independent grandmaster clock on each Ethernet port delivering cost savings and network deployment flexibility to customers This is coupled with a new 10 GbE interface to easily interoperate with a wider variety of network and stock trading topologies Microsemi Corporation microsemi com 3 DEFENSE DEVELOPED IMU AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE The HG4930 inertial measurement unit IMU is tailored for straight out of thefactory integration and use in various non defense and non aerospace industrial applications including surveying and mapping autonomous vehicles and gimbal stabilization The HG4930 IMU is not classified under an International Traffic in Arms Regulation category it is free from the burden of an export license for all but a few military related use cases The micro electro mechanical system MEMS based IMU has been tailored to provide significantly improved gyroscope and accelerometer performance for the environments and use cases experienced by 14 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM FEBRUARY 2018 non aerospace and non defense users Honeywell honeywell com 4 FREQUENCY HOPPING MODEM WITH ANTI JAMMING The HX DU2017D is a frequency hopping OEM modem designed to provide strong anti jamming and signal receiving capability for complex data intensive applications HX DU2017D is a miniature dual frequency software selectable 840 MHz and 900 MHz data link modem It provides power switching of 05 W 1 W and 2 W 20 ms 30 ms 40 ms 50 ms frequency hopping intervals and supports point to point point to multipoint network Its full duplex mode ensures secure data transferring and stable longrange communication The HX DU2017D also provides short latency of data transmission and communication recovery in millisecond level It allows fast and secure simultaneous data communication for mission critical applications especially in the fields of precision agriculture and UAVs including unmanned plant surveys UAV plant protection and automatic mowers It could be placed on a UAV with its extremely small footprint for tight OEM integration and design flexibility Meanwhile its frequency hopping transmission ensures UAV data security and flight stability Harxon en harxon com 2 1 3 4