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Caught this new cool-looking GPS unit over at thewirelessweblog. The PowerMax is a new Differential GPS receiver with built in Bluetooth.
The PowerMAX, which CSI unveiled today in Nashville, Tennessee during the annual American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), is primarily aimed at the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Mapping market. However, the product's wireless technology may be used in any industry to simplify communication between devices.
In GIS & Mapping, the PowerMAX improves system ergonomics for surveyors, utilities and forestry personnel, field engineers and other professionals by reducing their cable connection requirements. "The PowerMAX is the world's first affordable, professional mapping-grade receiver featuring Bluetooth® wireless technology. It features the same dependability and value for which other members of CSI's MAX family of DGPS receivers - the DGPS MAX and the mini MAX - are renowned.
"PowerMAX is the next generation in our family of DGPS receivers, and an ideal marriage of our expertise in both Differential GPS and wireless technology, said Stephen Verhoeff, CSI's President and CEO. "We have already received several purchase orders for the PowerMAX - including one from 3D Marketing, a leading U.S. government supplier - and we will begin shipping our first units later this quarter."
The PowerMAX's DGPS capability means that in addition to standard GPS signals, it receives accuracy-enhancing Differential signals to achieve sub- metre positioning accuracy. The PowerMAX can receive DGPS signals from ground- based beacon stations, and from space-based augmentation systems - including the U.S. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), Europe's EGNOS, and Japan's MSAS.
The PowerMAX also features CSI's exclusive COAST(TM) technology that enables a receiver during signal outages to use old location data for a half hour or longer without significant deterioration of positioning accuracy."
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