Australia’s first SmartNet Aus sites go live

Leica Geosystems and C.R. Kennedy & Company Pty Ltd are pleased to announce that the SmartNet Aus fully comprehensive CORS RTK Networks have gone commercially live in Australia.

The two sites are located on the Gold Coast in South East Queensland and in South Australia and cover a combined area of over 20,000 sq km. They are the first of many planned SmartNet systems nationally and are part of the Global SmartNet system that has sites throughout North America and Europe. The SmartNet networks provide centimeter level Real Time corrections for Surveying, Construction, Mining, Machine Control and Agricultural Auto-Steer Applications.

The SmartNet Aus Gold Coast site was commissioned by the Gold Coast City Council to provide Network RTK over the entire Council area. On both sites SmartNet Aus have installed new bases and are utilising existing bases to provide government and private clients with centimeter accuracy RTK.

SmartNet Aus is a joint initiative of Leica Geosystems and their national distributor, C.R. Kennedy. However, it is a stand-alone company and the networks are available to anyone who has a GNSS enabled system from any supplier and their industry partners.

Problems Solved
The value of SmartNet Aus in comparison to other networks is that it is a CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Station) Network, not a single-base solution. SmartNet Aus is connected with Leica Spider (Leica Geosystems Reference Network software) via nTrip (a protocol that enables streaming of DGPS or RTK correction data via the internet). As such the SmartNet Aus network has vast advantages over the conventional, single-base network solutions. It has none of the traditional issues that users of these networks experience like loss of fix, distance-dependant errors and accuracy issues on long baselines. Other issues with the conventional systems are UHF frequency crowding, clashing of radio signals, bandwidth issues, topology, natural and man-made barrier interference and other atmospherics all affecting baseline lengths. SmartNet Aus has none of these problems.

Notably, with SmartNet Aus there are no bandwidth problems, no interference and no weak signals due to distance. The users connect their GNSS equipment to the internet via Bluetooth Mobile Phone or proprietary modems and from there connect to SmartNet Aus to receive the corrections. The RTK is consistent no matter where the user is within the network. UHF radio issues are eliminated. SmartNet Aus operates far more accurately as it does not need to expand from one point only. Geographically separate networks can be set up all over the country and the Leica Spider software monitors all of these networks simultaneously.

For Static Surveys the user can log onto www.smartnetaus.com and view all the RINEX data available with just a few mouse clicks. Rinex files can be uploaded and Leica Spider Web processes the data.

Increased Productivity
The commercial savings of using SmartNet Aus are huge. Using the network eliminates the need to purchase or hire, set-up, secure, upgrade and maintain a base station. It eliminates this substantial financial and time cost and it’s easy to use - the user simply turns on their GNSS equipment, connects to the SmartNet Aus servers and they are working.

For more information on the SmartNet Aus networks visit

www.smartnetaus.com  or

email enquiries@smartnetaus.com

 

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