The LinkStar-STX3-ME, a complete "radio system" for system monitoring and asset tracking. You can use the LinkStat-STX3-ME on cars, storage tanks, aircraft, boats, pipelines, and even balloons to over 100,000'! System includes LinkStar-STX3 board, modified BeagleBone Black, GPS, radio and GPS magnetic mount antennas, USB cord and AC power adapter.
Unit is FCC Part 25 certified (2ANKS-LINKSTAR-STX3) and Globalstar certified to use with a range of SMA connected antennas up to 4.55 dB.
The LinkStar-STX3-ME includes the QuickSAT/VMS web interface to activate the radio system plus development APIs to access the radio, record and transmit user specific data, and GPS access.
User must purchase data plan to activate the LinkStar-STX3-ME.
LinkStar-STX3-ME
LinkStar-STX3-ME System Includes
- LinkStar-STX3 radio
- Communicator software
- QuickSAT/VMS Management System
- TW1500 Antenna
- Industrial BeagleBone Black Computer
- GPS
- Enclosure; enclosure is designed to IEC52, IP65 and NEMA 1, 2, 4, 4x, 12, and 13 specifications, UL Listed to UL508-4x specifications, UV stabilized polycarbonate with UL94-V2 flammability rating
TW2500 Antenna
4.25 dBic dual-feed patch, 1610 - 1620 MHz with weather-proof, magnetic mount enclosure with threaded base holes for screw down attach
GPS Antenna
Active 28 dB weather-proof magnetic mount antenna, T1 1575.42±1.023 MHz
OPERATING TEMPERATURE RANGE
-40 to +80 ºC
DIGITAL POWER SUPPLY OPERATIONAL VOLTAGE
5.0 Volts
RF POWER SUPPLY VOLTAGE
3.0 to 5.0 Volts
CERTIFICATION
FCC CFR Part 25 Modular, FCC Part 15A, Globalstar
TECHNOLOGY
Operates over the Globalstar™ Simplex Data Network
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
COMPUTER
Modified Industrial BeagleBone Black
ENVIRONMENT
Debian Linux, QuickSAT/VMS, MySQL, Apache, PHPMYADMIN, Python, PHP, Javascipt, HTML5, C, C++, Bash
MEMORY
4 GB plus microSD port
PORTS
I2C (2), USB, UARTS (3), GPIO (32), GND, Analog In (7), 3.3V
APIs
STX3, GPS (NMEA) AdaFruit and NovAtel 6XX and 7XX series, Serial Communications, I2C, BMP Sensor
DATA TABLES
View data stored in the on board database through the QuickSAT/VMS interface
DATA EXPORT
CSV, Excel, SQL, PDF
DATA PLOTTING
Plot up to 4 numerical valued measurements including GPS data on one graph. Export graphs to PNG, JPG, PDF, SVG