Hardware Manual

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1 INTRODUCTION
About This Document
This document serves as a hardware manual for the RTK EQU Tracking System for horse racing. It is intended to
give guidance on the setup and the commissioning of all mobile components of the system. This document is not
intended as an operation manual for hardware or software components of the system.
Audience
Information in this document are intended for skilled personnel only, such as system operators, track personnel
and persons responsible for setting up the mobile components of system.
About the System
RTK Tracking for horse racing is a complete solution intended for accurate GNSS-based tracking of horses in Horse
racing. It incorporates the use of real-time kinematic (RTK) correction through a number of hardware and
software components. The system is not intended for consumer markets and only applicable in the Horse Racing
sector.
Figure 1: System Overview
Nomenclature
Within this manual, the system components of the RTK EQU Tracking System will be named according to their
user terms. However, there might be situations in which the technical term for a component is being used
instead.
User term
Technical term
EQTracker
EQTrackerV4
RTK Base Station
GPSRadio32V2
RTK Transceiver
GPSRadio32V2
RTK EQU Charging Case
ChargingCaseEQTrackerV4
RTK EQU Tracking System
RTKEQUSystem