Leica SmartNet GB RTK License High User

Product Code: 88363 , Price: 2000

Unlimited usage per month. The first commercial RTK network for Great Britain and Ireland: Since mid January 2006 Leica Geosystems’ SmartNet service has been live and available as a broadcast correction service to subscribers via GSM or GPRS technology in Great Britain. Since then Leica Geosystems has also been adding value to the network by introducing its own GPS & GLONASS sites throughout Great Britain. From July 2007 SmartNet can now offer an additional service for the whole of Ireland. The complete service is provided in partnership between Leica Geosystems and Ordnance Survey Great Britain (OSGB), Ireland (OSI), and Northern Ireland (OSNI). GPS first became a viable tool for Topographic Surveys, GIS and Engineering applications in the early 1990’s, with the completion of the Navstar satellite constellation. The breakthrough to high precision solutions came with the expense of needing access to two GPS receivers; a reference and a rover. Without this configuration, accuracy is at around 10 metres, of variable quality and uncertain reliability. Now there is a genuine breakthrough, which means that we no longer require the use of multiple GPS receivers. Announced on December 20th 2005, Great Britain has the first commercially available broadcast RTK network in the form of Leica SmartNet. The service is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week and from July 2007 is extended to cover Great Britain and Ireland. ‘Now, one receiver is all you need. Of critical importance is the continuous datum afforded by SmartNet – you can work at full precision, in OS Grid, as soon as you turn the receiver on, anywhere in the country – or work in a new or existing local grid as before.’ SmartNet is based on raw data from the OSGB, OSI & OSNI network of GPS base stations. This network comprises around 142 permanent nationally deployed GPS reference stations; however the OS networks are only commercially available via partners. Leica Geosystems have also added further value to the reference infrastructure, by providing additional GPS and GPS & GLONASS reference stations for extra satellite availability, coverage, redundancy and monitoring. Open to all, whichever GPS you own Since mid January 2006 Leica Geosystems’ SmartNet service is live and available as a broadcast correction service to subscribers via GSM or GPRS technology. SmartNet is available to anyone with any make of GPS receiver that can accept RTK or DGPS corrections broadcast by GSM or GPRS from industry standard RTCM formats. So whether you own a Leica Geosystems product or another make of GPS receiver you are able to gain access to the service. The Network: Leica SmartNet is enabled by the network of Ordnance Survey base stations in both Great Britain and Ireland, to create a high density, high redundancy network which is able to deliver corrections at the centimetre level in RTK mode or sub-metre DGPS and with raw data for post processing. Data from each of these base stations around the country is received via the internet at a highly secure location in London Docklands. Here it is processed using Leica Geosystems GPS SpiderNet advanced network calculation software, which is also used by both Ordnance Survey Ireland & Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland. The data is then made available to subscribed users when they dial up or log in.