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News Release from: Hemisphere GPS | Subject: MX 575 DGPS Compass, MX 420 Control, MX 535
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2005
Navigation system benefits from DGPS
compass
CSI Wireless Inc has begun supplying essential differential GPS (DGPS) technology for the 'Trinity Solution' available from MX Marine, a unit of Brunswick Corporation.
CSI Wireless Inc has begun supplying essential differential GPS (DGPS) technology for the 'Trinity Solution' available from MX Marine, a unit of Brunswick Corporation Designed to meet the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) standards for marine navigation, heading information and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to monitor maritime traffic, the Trinity Solution is comprised of the MX 575 DGPS Compass, MX 420 Control and Display Unit and MX 535 Transponder - with all three linked to a junction box
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The MX 575 DGPS Compass is designed and manufactured by CSI, through its Hemisphere GPS division.
Based on Hemisphere's Vector technology, the MX 575 is the first GPS compass to be type-approved as a DGPS positioning device and as a secondary heading device for SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) carriage requirements, according to standards established by the IMO.
The MX 575 is a 'smart antenna' that features two DGPS receivers and two multipath-resistant antennas in a single rugged, water-tight enclosure about a half-metre long, together with CSI's MBL-3 beacon antenna, said the company.
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Hemisphere has been supplying two other DGPS products to Brunswick's MX Marine for some time.
One is a smart antenna that MX Marine is branding as the MX 521 and offering as an optional navigational device for the type-approved Trinity Solution.
The other product, also optional for use with the Trinity Solution, is another antenna - the MX 525 DGPS Black Box Sensor - that Hemisphere GPS has been producing for MX since 2003.
MX Marine's MX 525 customers include the U S Coast Guard.
Hemisphere GPS president Rick Heiniger said: "By now supplying the MX 575, in addition to the MX 521 and MX 525, we are building on a long-standing history with MX Marine of co-developing world-class DGPS products for the marine industry.
I'm delighted to see this very successful partnership continue to grow." And MX Marine president Greg Konig added: "The differential GPS technology provided to us by CSI's Hemisphere is an integral part of the Trinity Solution and a key reason why Trinity can truly be called the next wave in navigation." The Hemisphere-made MX 575 DGPS Compass, when combined with the MX 420 Control and Display Unit, is said to provide mariners with exceptional navigation and heading information, including a heading accuracy of 0.5 degrees, heading updates of up to 10Hz and position updates of up to 5Hz and fast start-up times, along with sustained tracking, even during up to 25 per cent rates of turn.
The company also said that compass can access integrated DGPS sources including beacon and Space-Based Augmentation Systems The MX 575 DGPS Compass, in a sealed enclosure with an IP 67 rating, also features a NMEA 0183 interface, with provision for external RTCM SC-104 corrections.
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