Monday, 5 March 2012

Week 3


The important thing to use in this project is :

GPS Module:



            In this project the usage of GPS with the microcontroller is very essential and need to be understood very carefully. Since the previous GPS provided which are also an integrated board that have too many parameters instead of only one general purpose of getting the coordinate location, we decide to use a simpler GPS like Parallax GPS Receiver. We use this module because it is much simpler and easy to be programmed instead of the previous one. Besides, it is also due to the reason that the architecture of the GPS itself.


            The GPS Receiver Module provides standard, raw NMEA0183 (National Marine Electronics Association) strings or specific user-requested data via the serial command interface, tracking of up to 20 satellites, and WAAS/EGNOS (Wide Area Augmentation System/European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) functionality for more accurate positioning results. The Module provides current date, time, latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and travel direction/heading, among other data, and can be used in a wide variety of applications, including navigation, tracking systems, mapping, fleet management, auto-pilot, and robotics.
Specification:
·         Fully-integrated, low-cost GPS receiver module with on-board, passive patch antenna.
·         Single-wire, 4800 baud Serial TTL interface to BASIC Stamp®, SX, Propeller, and other processors.
·         Provides either raw NMEA0183 strings or specific data requested via the command interface.
·         Requires single +5VDC supply @ 115mA (typical).
·         0.100” pin spacing for easy prototyping and integration.
  • The navigation update rate of the GPS Receiver Module is once per second.
  • • High sensitivity (-152 dBm for tracking and -139 dBm for acquisition).
  • The Module contains a built-in rechargeable battery for memory and real-time clock back-up.
  • On average, the Module has a +/-5 meter position accuracy and a +/-0.1 meter per second velocity accuracy.

RF module

These RF modules are adopting RF integrated circuit with super-heterodyne working mode and SAW resonance. Its features are stability and strong ability of anti-jamming. It is widely used at some spot of industrial control that has high requirement.

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