User's Manual

6 P412 User’s Manual & Data Sheet
Fig. 3: Illustration of the interface with a system of P412 RCMs
Key Features of the P412 RCM
• Excellent performance in high multipath and high clutter environments
• Coherent signal processing extends operating range
• Direct sequential pulse sampling allows measurement of received waveform (resultant
waveform is available to the user for ranging optimization)
• Two-Way Time-of-Flight (TW-TOF) ranging technique provides highly precise range
measurements with industry-leading update rate
• Coarse Range Estimation (CRE) technique estimates the range from a transmitting unit by
using the received leading edge signal strength and periodically recalibrating the estimate
based on infrequent TW-TOF range measurements
• UWB chipset enables low cost, small size, and low power operation
• UWB waveform and pseudo random encoding ensures noise-like transmissions with a very
small RF footprint
• RF emissions compliant with FCC limits
• Each unit is a full transceiver
• Single 3.1”x 3.7” (7.9 x 9.4 cm) board
• USB or Serial interfaces or CAN
• Several sleep modes allow user to reduce power consumption
Typical Applications of the P412 RCM
• Peer-to-peer ranging with moderate-rate wireless communications
• GPS augmentation for multipath resistance
• Inertial augmentation for drift removal
• Robotics navigation and tracking, precision formation
• Autonomous vehicle convoys
• First responder tracking and man-down locator
• Asset tracking, especially in applications that preclude the use of fixed infrastructure or
involving moving frames of reference
• Distributed sensor automatic survey and dynamic mapping with fused data communications
• Wireless channel impulse response (CIR) measurements