u-blox: The XPLR-HPG kits: positioning and wireless technologies for cm-level accuracy Donnerstag, 06. Oktober 2022 - 11:36

XPLR-HPG kits: Evaluation and prototyping
Development platforms delivering cm-level positioning accuracy

Dear Armando,

We are proud to introduce the XPLR-HPG explorer kits, two new full-featured prototyping platforms, enabling engineers to more quickly and easily evaluate and design products requiring centimeter-level positioning capabilities.

The ready-to-use XPLR-HPG-1 and XPLR-HPG-2 solutions combine u-blox's unique offering across the key technologies required to achieve highly precise positioning. The development platforms include high-precision GNSS (HPG) positioning with real-time kinematic (RTK), dead reckoning, cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® communications, as well as the necessary antennas. The XPLR-HPG application boards are also designed to integrate seamlessly with complementary u-blox services, such as PointPerfect GNSS augmentation service.

XPLR-HPG-1 comes with:

• Base board including NORA-W106 used as core MCU with Bluetooth LE,
  Wi-Fi radio, and three mikroBUS™ connectors,
• Three Click boards™, each one dedicated to a u-blox module: ZED-F9R (high precision RTK GNSS), LARA-R6001D (LTE Cat 1), and NEO-D9S (satellite receiver)
• Software & services: PointPerfect GNSS augmentation service error correction data stream, and application example software provided in source code for ESP IDF and based on ubxlib SW components

XPLR-HPG-2 is a compact version of the application board and includes almost the same u-blox modules all integrated on the board rather than as Click boards. These are the NINA-W106 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE module used as core MCU, the
ZED-F9R high precision RTK GNSS module, the LARA-R6001D LTE Cat 1 module, and the NEO-D9S satellite receiver module. It features the ESP32 Espressif SDK running on freeRTOS, is pre-enabled with the u-blox PointPerfect error correction data stream and contains application example software provided in source code for Arduino.

The example code is available on the u-blox's ubxlib GitHub repository, which provides a library of software examples for key use cases to speed up the prototyping of solutions and a starting point for commercial end-product design.  

The XPLR-HPG kits will be available towards the end of the year. Please contact your nearest u-blox sales contact for further details and to pre-order.

• Full-featured prototyping platforms for cm-level accuracy positioning applications
• High Precision GNSS, LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and antennas
• PointPerfect GNSS augmentation service
  
• Dual-core MCU for applications
• ubxlib software components and application in source code
• XPLR-HPG-1 with Click boards™ for flexible adaptation and application expansion
• XPLR-HPG-2 in a compact design

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