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Page 2: ...family However the particular PolaRx5 you purchased may not support functions speciﬁc to certain variants While we try to keep the manual as complete and up to date as possible it may be that certain features functionality or other product speciﬁcations change without prior notice or obligation The information contained in this manual is subject to change without notice Copyright 2000 2020 Septent...

Page 3: ... 14 3 2 CONNECTING AN ANTENNA 14 3 3 CONNECTING TO THE POLARX5 VIA THE WEB INTERFACE 15 3 3 1 Using the USB cable 15 3 3 2 Over WiFi 17 3 3 3 Using the Ethernet cable 19 4 Reference station operation 20 4 1 HOW TO CONFIGURE THE POLARX5 AS AN RTK BASE STATION 20 4 2 CONFIGURING THE POLARX5 NTRIP CASTER 25 4 3 USING PPP CORRECTION DATA WITH THE POLARX5 28 4 4 HOW TO OUTPUT A PPS PULSE PER SECOND SIG...

Page 4: ...ing feature 57 5 6 SCHEDULED SLEEP 59 5 6 1 Conﬁguring scheduled sleep 59 5 6 2 Combining the Monitoring and Scheduling features 62 6 Security 64 6 1 HOW TO MANAGE ACCESS TO THE POLARX5 64 6 1 1 SSH key authentication 66 6 2 HOW TO CONTROL ACCESS USING THE POLARX5 FIREWALL 68 7 Receiver administration operations 69 7 1 HOW TO CHANGE IP SETTINGS OF THE POLARX5 69 7 2 HOW TO CONFIGURE DYNAMIC DNS 70...

Page 5: ...83 C 3 POLARX5E DESIGN 84 C 3 1 Front panel 84 C 3 2 Rear panel 84 C 4 POWERING THE POLARX5E 85 C 4 1 Power Button 85 C 5 POLARX5E BATTERY CHARGING 86 Appendix D Cables 87 Appendix E LED behaviour 88 Appendix F RxTools 90 F 1 INSTALLING RXTOOLS 90 Appendix G Connecting to the PolaRx5 using RxControl 91 5 ...

Page 6: ...06 95 EC Low Voltage Directive both amended by the CE marking directive 93 68 EC With regards to EMC these devices are declared as class B suitable for residential or business environment 1 1 2 ROHS WEEE Notice PolaRx5 receivers are compliant with the latest WEEE RoHS and REACH directives For more information see www septentrio com en environmental compliance 6 ...

Page 7: ...and all the accessories included with this product may only be used according to the speciﬁcations in the delivered release note manual or other documents delivered with the receiver Statement 4 Only applicable to the PolaRx5e In order to ensure safe operation of the receiver a lightning arrestor should be installed between the receiver and the GNSS antenna A lightning arrestor with following spec...

Page 8: ...e has a dedicated Support section http www septentrio com support where the User Manual the Firmware Reference Guide and the latest oﬃcially supported Firmware version are readily available for download Further information can be found on our website or by contacting Septentrio s Technical Support department In case the PolaRx5 does not behave as expected and you need to contact Septentrio s Techn...

Page 9: ...e the setWiFiMode command or press the WiFi button to turn oﬀ or on the WiFi module The REF OUT frequency reference output In power critical applications REF OUT can be turned oﬀ with the setREFOUTMode command The activation of the Wideband Interference mitigation WBI with the setWBIMitigation command Enabling the L band demodulator using the setLBandSelectMode command The following table shows th...

Page 10: ...ure Range 40 to 65 C operational 40 to 85 C storage Certiﬁcation IP65 RohS CE FCC Class B Part 15 2 1 3 Performance Time accuracy 1 PPS out1 5ns 1 PPS out rise time 2ns Event 20ns Time to ﬁrst ﬁx Cold Start2 45s Warm Start3 20s Re acquisition avg 1 2s 2 No information available no almanac no approximate position 3 Ephemeris and approximate position known 10 ...

Page 11: ...IN assignments can be found in Appendix A The cables available for use with the PolaRx5 are listed in Appendix D and the LED behaviour is described in Appendix E Figure 2 1 PolaRx5 front panel layout 2 2 2 Rear panel Figure 2 2 shows the layout of the rear panel connectors on the PolaRx5 More information on these connectors can be found in Appendix B Figure 2 2 PolaRx5 rear panel layout 11 ...

Page 12: ...y powered through PoE pressing the power button resets the receiver After a few seconds the receiver will restart In case the receiver is powered through the PWR connector or through both PWR and PoE pressing the power button turns the receiver oﬀ Pressing the button again switches the receiver back on In all cases the state of the power button is not retained across a power outage If the receiver...

Page 13: ...2 2 POLARX5 DESIGN 2 2 7 External memory The PolaRx5 can log data to an external memory device More information on the recommended external device speciﬁcations can be found in Section 4 6 2 13 ...

Page 14: ... panel power socket The PolaRx5 can also be powered over Ethernet PoE as described in Section 2 2 3 or by supplying 9 to 30 V via PIN 1 of the open ended power cable CBLe_PWR_OE as detailed in Appendix A 8 3 2 Connecting an antenna The rear panel of the PolaRx5 has a TNC connector labelled MAIN to connect a GNSS antenna Connect an antenna to the PolaRx5 using an antenna cable as shown in Figure 3 ...

Page 15: ... 3 3 1 Using the USB cable Connect the USB cable CBLe_USB to the socket labelled COM3 4 USB on the front panel of the PolaRx5 as indicated in Figure 3 3 Figure 3 3 Connecting to the front panel USB socket The ﬁrst time that the USB cable is connected to your pc you may be prompted to allow installation of drivers which can take several minutes When the drivers have been installed it is recommended...

Page 16: ...activate the drivers The USB connection on the PolaRx5 functions as network adapter and the DHCP server running on the receiver will always assign the PolaRx5 the IP address 192 168 3 1 To connect to the PolaRx5 you can then simply open a web browser using the IP address 192 168 3 1 as shown in Figure 3 5 Figure 3 5 Connect to the Web Interface of the PolaRx5 over USB using the IP address 192 168 ...

Page 17: ...ront panel WiFi button to turn on the WiFi modem When active the red WiFi led will be lit On your PC or tablet search for visible WiFi signals the PolaRx5 identiﬁes itself as a wireless access point named PolaRx5 serial number The serial number of the PolaRx5 can be found on an identiﬁcation sticker on the receiver housing Select and connect to the PolaRx5 as shown in Figure 3 7 Figure 3 7 Select ...

Page 18: ...en your PC has connected to the PolaRx5 WiFi signal you can open a web browser using the IP address 192 168 20 1 as shown in Figure 3 8 Figure 3 8 Connect to the Web Interface of the PolaRx5 over WiFi using the IP address 192 168 20 1 on any web browser 18 ...

Page 19: ...g a DHCP server The IP address assigned to the receiver will be associated with the hostname PolaRx5 xxxxxxx where xxxxxxx are the 7 digits of the serial number of the GNSS Receiver Board GRB inside the PolaRx5 This number can also be found on an identiﬁcation sticker on the receiver housing You can then make a connection to the receiver using the web address http PolaRx5 xxxxxxx Figure 3 10 shows...

Page 20: ...e selected in the Position window of the Station menu as shown in Figure 4 1 Figure 4 1 Setting the PolaRx5 base station position to static Set the correct position An accurate position of the antenna that is connected to the PolaRx5 should also be set The default setting of auto can be used for demonstrations however for most other purposes a properly surveyed position is advisable In the example...

Page 21: ...CM3 output to start the sequence of conﬁguration steps RTCMv3 is the most compact and robust diﬀerential correction format and it is recommended to use this format where possible Select the Ethernet port you wish to use avoiding the commands port 28784 the webserver port 80 the FTP port 21 as well as the default NTRIP port 2101 and the NTP port 123 The example shown in Figure 4 3 uses port 28785 T...

Page 22: ...y them you can now connect to the conﬁgured Ethernet port of the PolaRx5 using a terminal emulator tool such as Data Link The Ethernet IP address you need can be found in the information bar at the top of the web interface In the example shown in Figure 4 4 the IP address is 192 168 105 246 Figure 4 4 The IP address of the PolaRx5 can be found on the information bar Data Link is part of Septentrio...

Page 23: ...the Data Link terminal emulator tool to connect to the PolaRx5 Ethernet port over which diﬀerential corrections have been conﬁgured When connected to the output correction stream click on the Show Data button on Data Link and you should see output similar to that shown in Figure 4 6 Figure 4 6 The RTCMv3 diﬀerential correction stream output from the IPS1 Ethernet connection of the PolaRx5 23 ...

Page 24: ...ed in this example using Data Link the Data Streams ﬁeld on the Corrections Output window should now show the active blue connection shown in Figure 4 7 and the corrections output icon in the information panel should appear active Figure 4 7 Web Interface showing diﬀerential corrections output over an Ethernet connection 24 ...

Page 25: ...ish to send correction data the default port is 2101 Click on New mount point as indicated in Figure 4 9 Select Yes to enable the mount point and give it a name This is the name that will appear in the caster source table Up to 3 mount points can be deﬁned each with a diﬀerent name You can also select the type of Client authentication for the mount point none any client can connect without logging...

Page 26: ...ne at least one user The user name and password are the credentials needed for the NTRIP client rover to access the correction stream In the Client Users section click on New User as shown in Figure 4 10 Enter a User Name and Password for the user and select the mount points that they will have access to Up to 10 NTRIP clients can log in as a particular user Click Ok to apply the settings Figure 4...

Page 27: ...a GGA message to the caster as was the case in Figure 4 12 then their position will also be visible Figure 4 11 Connecting as a client to the PolaRx5 NTRIP Caster On the NTRIP Client side Rover receivers can connect to the NTRIP Caster by entering its IP address and Port as shown in Figure 4 12 After clicking Ok the mount point source table will be ﬁlled and a mount point can be selected The user ...

Page 28: ...d capable antenna The PolaRx5 can use PPP correction data from SECORX as described in the steps below Step 1 Check you have PPP permissions on your PolaRx5 The use of PPP services is permission ﬁle controlled on the PolaRx5 You can make sure that have PPP permissions enabled on the About page selected from the Admin menu Click on Permitted Capabilities and scroll down the list of permissions PPP a...

Page 29: ...be purchased from your PolaRx5 dealer or from Septentrio sales department sales septentrio com To activate SECORX you will need to provide the Product Activation Code PAC of the receiver The PAC can be found on the SECORX window as highlighted in Figure 4 14 Figure 4 14 Provide the Product Activation Code PAC for SECORX activation Please note that the SECORX service is activated over the air Your ...

Page 30: ...hoose the L Band beam selection mode by clicking Settings in the SECORX conﬁguration window as Figure 4 16 shows In the default auto mode the demodulator will try to lock on to a visible beam preferring beams to which access has been granted In manual mode you can select the beam you want to track from the Manual beam selection drop down list The details of two additional beams can also be entered...

Page 31: ...d decoder Information ﬁeld shown in Figure 4 17 The receiver should also report its position as PPP on the upper information panel Figure 4 17 Access to SECORX PPP correction data is enabled Step 6 Save the conﬁguration Click on Save in the pop up to save the current setting as the boot conﬁguration Figure 4 18 Save the new settings to the boot conﬁguration 31 ...

Page 32: ... rear panel of the PolaRx5 Step 2 Conﬁgure the PPS settings You can conﬁgure the PPS settings on the Timing window of the GNSS menu as shown in Figure 4 20 Figure 4 20 PPS conﬁguration ﬁeld in the web interface The Interval is the time interval between successive timing pulses and is selectable between 10 ms and 10 s The default Polarity of the PPS signal is a low to high transition which can be a...

Page 33: ...he PPS generation time which is extrapolated from the last available PVT information may start to drift To avoid large biases the receiver stops outputting the PPS pulse when the last available PVT is older than the speciﬁed MaxSyncAge The MaxSyncAge is ignored when TimeScale is set to RxClock Step 3 Click on Ok to apply settings The new conﬁguration can also be saved as the boot conﬁguration by c...

Page 34: ...ere are two options either the receiver stops logging when the memory is full or it continues logging by making space for new ﬁles by deleting the oldest The default setting is Delete oldest Figure 4 22 Selecting what you wish to happen when the internal 16 GB memory is full Step 2 Conﬁguring a logging session On the Log Sessions window of the Logging menu you can check which logging sessions have...

Page 35: ...ternal Disk and Never for Auto Delete have been selected In the Edit SBF Stream window the messages required for RINEX generation have been selected as well as those useful for the Support department for diagnosing problems SBF messages can also be selected individually Figure 4 24 Follow the sequence of windows to fully conﬁgure the logging session Please note that this setting is overruled by th...

Page 36: ... the Log Sessions window will show a summary of the deﬁned logging sessions as in Figure 4 25 An estimate of the daily size of data generated with the current logging conﬁguration is also given Figure 4 25 A summary of the newly deﬁned logging sessions showing the expected amount of data generated daily 36 ...

Page 37: ...rnal memory device connected the new device should be visible in the Log Sessions window as shown in Figure 4 27 If the device is not formatted or the formatting is not compatible with the receiver ﬁle system you will be prompted to format the device This can be done by clicking on the Format button Figure 4 27 With a 2 GB external USB memory device connected to the PolaRx5 New logging sessions ca...

Page 38: ...d in the Edit Session window after conﬁguring SBF or RINEX logging as shown in Figure 4 29 FTP push will create the folder data on the remote server if it does not yet exist If ﬁle transfer fails the receiver will retry after the Retry Interval which has been selected as 15 minutes in this example Figure 4 29 Conﬁgure pushing of RINEX ﬁles to an external FTP server You can check that the FTP serve...

Page 39: ...e PolaRx5 both on its internal memory and to an external USB device can be downloaded using the web interface on the Disk Contents window of the Logging menu Each logging session is logged to a separate folder Individual ﬁles can be downloaded by clicking on the green download arrow next to the ﬁle name as shown in Figure 4 31 If you need to download multiple ﬁles from the receiver it may be more ...

Page 40: ... how to connect using FTP with FileZilla over both the USB connection 192 168 3 1 and over Ethernet polarx5 3010305 The DSK1 folder contains data ﬁles logged on the internal memory while DSK2 contains ﬁles logged to an external device Figure 4 32 Downloading logged data ﬁles using the PolaRx5 FTP server with a FileZilla client DSK1 ﬁles logged on the internal memory DSK2 ﬁles logged on an external...

Page 41: ... 7 HOW TO ACCESS LOGGED DATA Figure 4 33 Downloading logged data ﬁles using the FTP server with Windows File Explorer DSK1 ﬁles logged on the internal memory DSK2 ﬁles logged on an external USB device 41 ...

Page 42: ... them from being deleted To conﬁgure POEL create a new log session as described in Section 4 6 and select Type âĂŸPreserve on EventâĂŹ Currently âĂŸEventsâĂŹ refers to hardware events a voltage transition registered by either the Event A or the Event B pins Data can be preserved from x minutes before until y minutes after event as shown in Figure 4 34 The maximum amount of time data can be preserv...

Page 43: ...ull The ﬁles in unused or disabled log sessions are ﬁrst to be deleted The receiver then scans the enabled low priority sessions The oldest ﬁle in these sessions is identiﬁed and deleted If no ﬁle could be deleted the receiver scans the medium priority sessions and ﬁnally it will scan the high priority sessions Preserved ﬁles are the last to be deleted but in case the disk ﬁlls with preserved ﬁles...

Page 44: ... to Server Note that it is disabled by default Once the server is enabled all the other P2PP settings can be conﬁgured as shown in Figure 4 36 The Port option allows to select the COM port to be used for the point to point communication Next the client and server IP s will need to be set The ClientIP sets the IP address that will be given to the client remote from the receiver s perspective when a...

Page 45: ...assword needs to be set in order to successfully conﬁgure this feature Figure 4 37 Enabling P2PP authentication Finally Connect Timeout determines the maximum amount of time in seconds that a connection attempt may consume before being refused Meanwhile Activity Timeout sets the maximum time in seconds that a connection may be idle no data transfer before it is disconnected When a timeout occurs t...

Page 46: ...alternative to FTP for RINEX or SBF ﬁle submission from the PolaRx5 receivers and supports OpenAM for authentication To learn more about the CloudIt feature and learn how to set it up please check the knowledge base on the Septentrio website 46 ...

Page 47: ...he receiver board and the voltage supplied is also shown The icons to the right of the information bar show that in this example the position of the receiver is ﬁxed the overall signal quality is Excellent 5 out of 5 bars and the receiver is logging both internally Int Logging and to an external USB memory device Ext Logging The Corrections icon indicates that diﬀerential corrections are being sen...

Page 48: ... line that there are no satellites from that particular constellation in tracking More information can be found in the Satellites and Signals page on the GNSS menu The Logging ﬁeld summarises the current logging sessions and disk capacities The complete logging information and conﬁguration windows can be found via the Logging menu The Data Streams ﬁeld gives and overview of the data streams into g...

Page 49: ...eband interference both intentional and unintentional can be mitigated by turning on the WBI mitigation system The WBI system also reduces more eﬀectively than traditionally used pulse blanking methods the eﬀects of pulsed interferers The spectrum view plot In the Spectrum window of the GNSS menu you can monitor the RF spectrum and conﬁgure three separate notch ﬁlters to cancel out narrowband inte...

Page 50: ...de as shown conﬁgured for Notch1 in Figure 5 3 the region of the aﬀected spectrum is speciﬁed by a centre frequency and a bandwidth which is eﬀectively blanked by the notch ﬁlter Figure 5 3 Conﬁguring the ﬁrst notch ﬁlter Notch1 at 1235 MHz With the Notch1 settings as shown in Figure 5 3 the L2 band after the notch ﬁlter After IM is shown in Figure 5 4 with the blanked section clearly visible Figu...

Page 51: ...om devices such as chirp jammers The wideband interference mitigation system WBI of the PolaRx5 can reduce the eﬀect of both types of interference on GNSS signals Conﬁguring WBI mitigation The Wideband Interference Mitigation system WBI can be enabled by selecting on as shown in Figure 5 5 Enabling WBI will increase the power consumed by the PolaRx5 by about 160 mW Figure 5 5 Select on to enable W...

Page 52: ...the eﬀect of the interference is dramatically reduced to the extent that the small signal bump at the GPS L1 central frequency of 1575 MHz is clearly visible as Figure 5 7 shows In this particular test the interference signal caused the receiver to fall back to the less precise DGNSS or standalone positioning modes With WBI mitigation enabled however the receiver was able to maintain an RTK ﬁx pos...

Page 53: ...ing a new logging session On the menu bar select Logging then the Log Sessions window where you can deﬁne a new logging session Figure 5 8 Click on the Create button to start deﬁning a new logging session Step 2 Select to log the Support data blocks In the Edit Session window click on SBF Logging and New SBF stream as usual In the ﬁnal Edit SBF Stream ﬁeld make sure to select the Support option as...

Page 54: ...ing session selecting Support in the Edit SBF Stream ﬁeld When logging has been correctly conﬁgured the Log Sessions window will show the newly deﬁned session as active as indicated in Figure 5 10 Figure 5 10 The Log Sessions window showing an active logging session 54 ...

Page 55: ...igure 5 11 Click on the download icon next the SBF ﬁle you want to download Figure 5 11 Click on the green download icon to next to the ﬁle you want to download 5 3 2 Diagnostic Report A Diagnostic Report can be generated under the Admin About tab on the Web interface as shown in Figure 5 12 and saved to your PC Figure 5 12 Generate a Diagnostic Report 55 ...

Page 56: ...ver Messages window of the Admin menu that can be used to check the receiver operations The example in Figure 5 13 shows that four 15 minute SBF ﬁles have been successfully FTP pushed to a remote location Figure 5 13 Receiver events reported by the PolaRx5 in the Receiver Messages window 56 ...

Page 57: ...re Step 1 Deﬁne a voltage threshold and standby time On the menu bar select âĂŸStationâĂŹ and then âĂŸPower ModeâĂŹ Next click on the âĂŸMonitoringâĂŹ tab Here you can conﬁgure the voltage threshold and deﬁne how long the receiver should remain in standby before attempting to wake up again as shown in Figure 5 14 If the voltage level is still below the threshold value when the receiver tries to wa...

Page 58: ...re 5 15 Note that if the current voltage is lower than the threshold value deﬁned in step 1 the receiver will not go into standby immediately but will display a warning and wait for 30 seconds allowing the user to save the conﬁguration to boot or increase the threshold value Figure 5 15 Saving the conﬁguration to boot after conﬁguring the Monitoring feature Note that the receiver will not attempt ...

Page 59: ...1 Conﬁgure a new Wake Up Schedule On the menu bar select âĂŸStationâĂŹ and then âĂŸPower ModeâĂŹ Next click on the âĂŸSchedulingâĂŹ tab Here you can conﬁgure a full âĂŸWake Up ScheduleâĂŹ as shown in Figure 5 16 Figure 5 16 Overview of the Wake Up Schedule The Wake Up schedule allows you to conﬁgure both the length of the period the receiver should be awake and whether or not this wake up period s...

Page 60: ...e example shown in Figure 5 17 this is set to 10 minutes Step 3 Deﬁne the repetition period Next determine how often the receiver needs to wake up for the previously conﬁgured period of time If you wish for the receiver to wake up just once leave the Repetition Period option at its default value of âĂŸNo RepetitionâĂŹ The example shown in Figure 5 17 shows a receiver which is conﬁgured to wake up ...

Page 61: ...ent conﬁguration to boot This is because when waking up from standby or sleep the receiver will apply the boot conﬁguration which at this point does not contain the recently conﬁgured changes Figure 5 18 Figure 5 18 Upon applying the changes the receiver will show a warning suggesting to copy the current conﬁguration to boot Note that you can also conﬁgure the receiver to wake up at a certain poin...

Page 62: ...nitoring feature with a Wake Up Schedule In this case when the receiver is scheduled to be awake but the voltage level is below the threshold value deﬁned in the monitoring tab the receiver will remain in standby but will periodically attempt to wake up in order to check the voltage level Conversely during time periods for which the receiver is scheduled to sleep the receiver will not attempt to w...

Page 63: ...will lead the receiver to remain in standby but periodically check the voltage level when the receiver is scheduled to be awake but the voltage level is below the threshold value When the receiver is scheduled to sleep the receiver will not attempt to wake up to check the voltage levels 63 ...

Page 64: ...5 In the example shown in Figure 6 2 Web Interface Anonymous users without password can connect to the receiver via the web interface as Viewers They can browse the various windows but cannot change any of the settings Only George who has User access can change receiver settings via the web interface FTP Anonymous users have full access over FTP so can download and delete logged data ﬁles IP COM a...

Page 65: ... 6 2 Deﬁning user access levels After deﬁning the Users Viewers and their access levels they can login on the web interface by clicking on Log in on the upper right corner as shown in Figure 6 3 Figure 6 3 Logging in to the PolaRx5 web interface 65 ...

Page 66: ...ess can be limited by conﬁguring user access as described in Section 6 1 For added security user authentication for SFTP and rsync access can be conﬁgured using an SSH public key When an SSH key is deﬁned the conﬁgured user can download ﬁles using SFTP or rsync without entering a password provided of course that the matching private key is known by the key agent running on the same PC You can gene...

Page 67: ...xt that can be pasted directly into the SSH Key ﬁeld of the PolaRx5 Web Interface as shown in Figure 6 6 Figure 6 6 Logging out 521 bit ECSDA keys oﬀer the best security however ECSDA 256 and 384 bit keys can also be used Alternatively RSA 512 and 1024 key encryption is also supported 67 ...

Page 68: ...the IP Ports menu In the example shown in Figure 6 7 Ethernet ports 2101 2102 and 2103 are accessible but only from devices with the IP address 84 199 9 148 Similarly all WiFi ports are open but only those from IP 84 199 9 148 Please note that the ﬁrewall settings do not apply when connecting to the web interface using USB In the case of WiFi ﬁrewall settings only apply when the receiver is in WiF...

Page 69: ...own in Figure 7 1 In Static mode the receiver will not attempt to request an address via DHCP but will use the speciﬁed IP address netmask gateway domain name and DNS DNS1 is the primary DNS and DNS2 is the backup DNS In DHCP mode the arguments IP Netmask Gateway Domain DNS1 and DNS2 are ignored Having entered the settings click on Ok then Apply And Reboot in the pop up dialog as shown as the rece...

Page 70: ...ternet service provider ISP If the IP address is dynamic then it may change over time resulting in a loss of connection Dynamic DNS DynDNS or DDNS is a service that addresses this problem by linking a user deﬁned hostname for the device to whichever IP address is currently assigned to it To make use of this feature on the PolaRx5 you should ﬁrst create an account with a Dynamic DNS provider dyndns...

Page 71: ...time of the receiver Permission ﬁles enable additional features on the PolaRx5 and can be purchased from our sales department Step 1 Select the suf ﬁle and start the upgrade The upgrade procedure is started by clicking on the Choose ﬁle button in the Upgrade window of the Admin menu and which is highlighted in Figure 7 4 Figure 7 4 Selecting the suf ﬁle to upload to the receiver Having already sav...

Page 72: ...2 Verifying the upgrade If there were no problems with the upgrade the message Upgrade successful will appear You can then check on the Admin About window as shown in Figure 7 6 that the new ﬁrmware version or permission ﬁle has been updated Figure 7 6 Checking the ﬁrmware and permission ﬁle versions 72 ...

Page 73: ... with saved conﬁguration after a power cycle Figure 7 7 Setting the PolaRx5 to its default conﬁguration 7 5 How to reset the PolaRx5 If the PolaRx5 is not operating as expected a simple reset may resolve matters The PolaRx5 can be fully power cycled by disconnecting then reconnecting the power supply However on the Admin Reset window as shown in Figure 7 8 diﬀerent functionalities can be reset ind...

Page 74: ...n of a PolaRx5 can be easily saved to a PC as a text ﬁle A saved conﬁguration can then be uploaded to any other PolaRx5 Step 1 Downloading the conﬁguration from a PolaRx5 Click the green download arrow next the conﬁguration you wish to download as shown in Figure 7 9 The conﬁguration will be saved as a txt ﬁle Figure 7 9 Saving a conﬁguration from a PolaRx5 as a text ﬁle 74 ...

Page 75: ...tion to another PolaRx5 Again on the Admin Conﬁguratoins window click on the blue upload arrow as indicated in Figure 7 10 to upload a conﬁguration ﬁle stored on you PC In this example the saved ﬁle will be uploaded as the Boot conﬁguration Figure 7 10 Uploading a conﬁguration to a PolaRx5 75 ...

Page 76: ...e connectors are shown in Figure A 1 Figure A 1 Pinout of the front panel female connectors and the ODU part numbers of the corresponding male connectors A 1 COM1 This 7 pin connector provides access to the ﬁrst serial port COM1 The receiver behaves as Data Terminal Equipment DTE PIN Description 1 Not connected 2 Signal ground GND 3 Not connected 4 Not connected 5 Receive Data RXD input to the rec...

Page 77: ...d CTS input 4 Request To Send RTS output 5 Receive Data RXD input to the receiver 6 Transmit Data TXD output from the receiver 7 Not connected A 3 COM3 4 USB This 7 pin connector can be conﬁgured in two modes COM3 and COM4 USB device The electrical level at pin 7 deﬁnes the operating mode COM3 4 device This mode is selected by leaving pin 7 unconnected PIN Description 1 Not connected 2 GND 3 COM4 ...

Page 78: ... Over Ethernet Please note that only mode A as speciﬁed in the 802 3af standard is supported on the PolaRx5 PIN Description 1 TxD 2 TxD 3 RxD 4 RxD A 5 OUT PIN Description 1 Reserved 2 GND 3 GP1 output 3 3V Use the command setGPIOFunctionality to set the level of this pin 4 GP2 output 3 3V Use the command setGPIOFunctionality to set the level of this pin 5 nRST_OUT Open collector output driven low...

Page 79: ...a power Can be used to apply an external supply voltage to the antenna The voltage applied to ANT_EXT VANT determines the voltage source on the MAIN connector as follows if VANT 2 0V or ANT_EXT left open the antenna is powered by the internal 5V supply if 3 0V VANT 4 0V there is no power provided to the MAIN connector if 5 0V VANT 12 0V the antenna power supply is taken from ANT_EXT Warning Exceed...

Page 80: ...etPPSParameters command or on the Web Interface see Section 4 4 The pulse duration is 5ms B 3 REF IN BNC Use this connector to provide the receiver with an external 10 MHz frequency reference to be used instead of the internal oscillator The reference signal should preferably be sinusoidal with a peak to peak amplitude unloaded ranging from 0 5V to 10V 8dBm to 18dBm on a 50 Ω load Connecting or di...

Page 81: ...B 5 WIFI SMA Note that the REF OUT signal can be turned oﬀ with the setREFOUTMode command See also Section 2 1 1 B 5 WiFi SMA Connector for the WiFi antenna 81 ...

Page 82: ...d when 12 VDC is supplied to the PWR connector Conﬁguration Power Consumption GPS GLONASS L1 tracking and PVT 1 9W GPS GLONASS L1 L2 tracking and PVT 2 1W GPS L1 L2 L5 GLO L1 L2 GAL E1 E5a SBAS L1 L5 BDS B1 B2 2 3W All constellations and all signals enabling GAL E6 and or BDS B3 increases the power by 650mW 3 0W Enabling Ethernet 650mW Enabling WiFi 450mW Enabling REFOUT 30mW Enabling Wideband Int...

Page 83: ...ength includes connectors and excludes WiFi antenna Weight 1 9 kg 4 23 lb Operating temperature 20 C to 55 C 4 F to 131 F Storage temperature 20 C to 55 C 4 F to 131 F IP rating IP68 Internal battery 7 5 V 6400 mAh Li ion Certiﬁcation RohS CE FCC Class B Part 15 The internal battery charger operates between 0 C and 55 C 32 F to 131 F 83 ...

Page 84: ... the PolaRx5e is described in Appendix E Figure C 2 PolaRx5e front panel layout C 3 2 Rear panel The rear panel layout of the PolaRx5e diﬀers slightly to that of the PolaRx5 described in Section 2 2 2 The WiFi connector of the PolaRx5e is located on the left hand side of the rear panel located on right hand side of PolaRx5 Figure C 3 shows the layout of the rear panel connectors on the PolaRx5e Mo...

Page 85: ...re reported in the PowerStatus SBF bock C 4 1 Power Button In case the receiver is powered through the PWR connector or through both PWR and PoE pressing the power button turns the receiver oﬀ Pressing the button again switches the receiver back on In case the receiver is only powered through PoE pressing the power button resets the receiver After a few seconds the receiver will restart In contras...

Page 86: ... of the PolaRx5e will charge automatically when connected to a power source During charging the power consumption increases by about 3 W The battery will fully charge from empty in around 16 hours The charge status and estimated remaining charging time are reported in the web interface of the PolaRx5e 86 ...

Page 87: ...ur 1 PPS_IN Blue 2 Ground Blue White 3 IO1 Orange 4 RESET Green 5 EVENTA Brown 6 EVENTB Green White 7 ANT_EXT Orange White Do not leave the Brown and Green White wires ﬂoating tie them to ground if not used This will avoid crosstalk eﬀects that could lead to spurious level transitions on the EvA and EvB inputs CBLe_USB 201202 USB device cable to be connected to the COM3 4 USB connector CBLe_USB_HO...

Page 88: ...E LED behaviour 88 ...

Page 89: ...s the number of satellites for which diﬀerential corrections have been provided in the last received diﬀerential correction message RTCM or CMR Behaviour conﬁgured as DIFFCORLED Number of satellites with corrections Oﬀ No diﬀ corr received On The LED is solid ON when the receiver outputs diﬀerential corrections as a static base station Blinks fast 10 per second 0 Blinks once then pauses 1 2 Blinks...

Page 90: ...cluding ASCII RINEX and KML SBF Analyzer allows users to generate time plots from SBF ﬁles for detailed analysis It can also create standard reports for reporting purposes RxLogger allows ﬂexible logging of SBF and NMEA data Users can select multiple streams each with a diﬀerent update rate RxPlanner is a Satellite Mission Planning software It shows the satellite visibility and DOP at the user deﬁ...

Page 91: ... in the Start menu of your PC In the File menu select Change Connection In the example shown in Figure G 2 a USB cable was used The USB connection of the PolaRx5 maps onto two virtual serial connections which are identiﬁed as USB COM Port 1 and USB COM Port 2 Select one of these connections and give it a name When connected to a receiver the various information ﬁelds in RxControl will be ﬁlled as ...

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