Kalmix Engineering Notes

Practical GNSS and RTK resources for real machines.

Technical articles, selection guides, hardware deep dives, and application notes for engineers building RTK-based robotics, AGV, agriculture, and field-automation systems.

GNSS Handbook

Fundamentals of GNSS, RTK, signals, corrections, and coordinate systems.

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Market Insights

Selection guides for RTK receivers, modules, robotics, and field automation.

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Deep Dives

Engineering decisions behind Kalmix GNSS hardware and platform choices.

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Application Notes

Protocol references, frame structures, and developer integration notes.

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GNSS Handbook

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PPK from Logs: Can You Trust a Track Solved After the Fieldwork

RTK gives a position now. PPK uses recorded GNSS observations to build and check the final trajectory, with particular value in weak segments, mobile mapping, and UAV flights.

Sep 29, 202613 min read
OSR to SSR: What Changes When PPP-RTK Corrections Stop Looking Like a Base

OSR and SSR change what a GNSS receiver receives. PPP, PPP-AR and PPP-RTK show how correction content affects convergence, coverage and receiver support.

Sep 23, 202611 min read
RTK Goes Networked: What Breaks When Every Rover Wants Its Own Base

Network RTK turns one physical baseline into a regional service through CORS, multi-station modeling, virtual bases, shared grids, and quality control.

Sep 14, 202614 min read

Market Insights

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Position Before Steering: What Must an RTK GNSS Receiver Provide for AgOpenGPS

How to assess an RTK GNSS receiver for AgOpenGPS: data path, RTK corrections, motion inputs, vehicle-control boundaries, and field validation.

Jul 29, 202613 min read
RTK Accuracy Trap: Can a Datasheet Predict Field Performance

How to read RTK accuracy tests by comparing datasheet specs, Fixed Rate, RMS, CDF, and scenario statistics before choosing a receiver.

Jul 10, 20262 min read
Right Acres Wrong Place: Why Does a Perfect Fix Still Land Your Boundary Off the Map

RTK GPS can improve field mapping, but acreage, boundaries, datum, antenna setup, and export metadata decide whether the map still lines up later.

Jun 14, 202613 min read

Deep Dives

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Host-Based RTK: Why Moving the RTK Engine Off-Chip Still Matters

Why host-based RTK moved the software engine off-chip, how that architecture lowered cost, and why the responsibility boundary still matters today.

Jun 04, 202613 min read
AG3335 Variants Explained: How to Choose Between M, A, AT, and AD

AG3335 suffixes define GNSS responsibility boundaries, from PVT-first modules to RTK+DR packaging, vehicle dead reckoning, and OPEN compute paths.

May 26, 202612 min read
Why Kalmix Chose AG3335: Building a GNSS Platform for Real Machines

Kalmix chose AG3335 as a GNSS platform because real machines need L1/L5 tracking, firmware control, RTK behavior, and deployable module architecture.

May 09, 202618 min read

Application Notes

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AN-002: RTCM SC-104 Frame Structure & Message Type Reference

A field-level RTCM 3.x reference for frame parsing, CRC-24Q, MSM fields, message types, base-station records, and parser validation.

Apr 11, 202631 min read
AN-001: NMEA 0183 Protocol Structure & Sentence Dictionary

A field-level NMEA 0183 reference for GGA, RMC, GSA, and GSV: sentence fields, talker IDs, checksums, GNSS codes, and parser-safe version handling.

Feb 26, 202621 min read