The rugged 10,1” tablet is a perfect tool for industrial field service and maintenance or mobile HMI. It offers industry standard interfaces and connectors, hot-swappable battery and optional barcode reader, as well as the fact that it has been designed to allow customization.
Ceramic patch antennas used for GPS applications have a significant limitation – they must face the sky in order to get the best reception. Moreover, these antennas are sensitive to the size of the ground plane area and must be tuned together with the ground plane, which is a serious drawback.
On 15 December 2016, Europe's satellite navigation system Galileo started offering its initial services to public authorities, businesses and citizens.