New GPS Module for Outdoor Location Monitoring

Banner Engineering (Belgium) introduces a GPS Module for outdoor location monitoring applications. Low power consumption, ability to withstand extreme environments, flexible power supply voltages and Modbus RTU communications makes this sensor ideal for heavy industrial use.

Combined with battery based wireless nodes, application examples include locating mobile equipment on industrial sites, such as skips, trailers or mobile tank units. Real time monitoring of vehicle position permits to visualise teams or equipment and increase efficiency by calling nearest drivers on a job. In landfills, the various vehicles can be precisely positioned to track the driving pattern and increase waste compaction.

Features include positional accuracy < 2.5 m, IP69K per DIN 40050, an operating temperature range of -40 °C to 80 °C, Modbus slave device - RS-485 half-duplex serial communications, SiRF Star IV GPS chip, satellite-based augmentation systems and high sensitivity navigation engine able to track as low as -163 dBm.