RTK in 5-minutes

If you don’t have access to correction services or you simply want to be independent from them, a Base+Rover setup might be the way to go. The “Base Station” will have to be installed in a static location performing measurements of the GNSS errors, while the “Rover” can be travelling around enjoying centimeter level accuracy. There is a limitation and is that both Base and Rover need to see more or less the same satellites, for this reason the maximum range of this solution is around 35km. For units which are very close to each other (up to 10 meters), we can use cables to connect them. To cover longer distances we will need a wireless communication. For this reason we added a socket (we call it XBee socket) to our RTK receivers, so adding wired or wireless communication between base and rover would be an almost plug-and-play task. To make it even simpler, we developed a few starter kits for this setup:

• Up to 10 meters between base and rover, you can do with 2x Basic Starter Kits or the simpleRTK2B+heading Basic Starter Kit. The GNSS antennas included in the kit have 5 meter cables. Additionally you can extend this distance to up to 20 meters (10 meters each side) by adding our low loss RF cables.
• Up to few hundred meters, 1x Medium Range (MR) kit. This kit only allows one Rover for each Base Station.
• Up to few kilometers, 1x Long Range (LR) kit with multirover capability.
• Up to 50 kilometers, 1x eXtra Long Range (XLR) kit also with multirover capability.