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To meet the needs of product designers for a reliable, accurate source of direction and pointing information, KVH Industries has introduced a small, versatile heading sensor subsystem called the KVH C100 Compass Engine. Exceptionally accurate and capable of operating under a wide range of conditions, the KVH C100 is also compact and affordable. Typical applications for this versatile new sensor are diverse, including antenna aiming, vehicle navigation systems, oceanographic buoys, current meters, weapon fire control systems, robotics, remotely piloted vehicles, and optic instruments such as laser rangefinders, night vision scopes and binoculars.
The KVH C100 makes it very easy for the product designer to add the direction determining sensor to a larger system. Operating totally autonomously of the host system, the C100 requires only a power connection to output exceptionally accurate heading data. Simple menu driven software enables custom configuration of a variety of the product's performance parameters and outputs. Proprietary electronic automatic compensation corrects for both hard and soft iron sources of permanent deviation in each individual installation, assuring the C100 heading sensor is accurate not only on the lab bench but, more importantly, after it is installed in the final product.
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