NovAtel and KVH Unveil CNS-5000

The KVH's CNS-5000 is a self-contained navigation system that combines fiber optic gyro (FOG)-based inertial measurement technology from KVH with GPS from NovAtel. It is combined effort of KVH Industries Inc. and manufacturer NovAtel Inc.
According to the company, the CNS-5000 is designed specifically for demanding commercial applications, such as dynamic surveying, precision agriculture, container terminal management, and autonomous vehicle navigation.The coupling of GPS and inertial measurement technologies in the CNS-5000 optimizes the raw GPS and inertial data, delivering position, velocity and attitude data, according to KVH. Built entirely of commercial components and rugged enough to operate in extremely demanding conditions, the device is also designed to meet COTS requirements.
Passing a comment on the product,Gram Purves who is the VP sales and marketing for NovAtel stated that "This product extends our portfolio into markets that have been difficult to penetrate with standard two-box GPS/INS solutions, due to high price or complex export controls."
In his own remark, KVH's VP of busibess development, Dan Conway said that "The combination of NovAtel's GPS technology with our precision fiber optic gyros and inertial technologies led to an entirely new single-enclosure approach to GPS/IMU systems.