Trimble PX-1 RTX – Commercial drone delivery is no longer an emerging technology, but a fast growing market. Helping drive that growth are technological advances from Trimble.
As the company continuously innovates new technologies, they have released a smart antenna enclosure option for the Trimble® PX-1 RTX™ solution, which provides accurate and robust positioning and heading for commercial drone delivery applications. By integrating a Calian jam resilient antenna element with the Trimble PX-1 RTX in a compact enclosure, integrators can bypass months of complex integration and testing, significantly accelerating speed to market.
“Bypassing lengthy development cycles provides an edge in today’s highly dynamic UAV landscape,” said Joe Hutton, director of Applanix airborne products at Trimble. “Removing board level integration challenges like RF interference and mechanical noise, and incorporating a high performance, state-of-the art GNSS antenna element from Calian, this drop-in positioning solution enables our customers to integrate real-time centimeter positioning into their products in weeks instead of months.”
The Trimble PX-1 RTX combines Trimble’s CenterPoint® RTX corrections with compact, high-performance GNSS-inertial hardware to deliver real-time, centimeter-level positioning and precise true heading. This enables tighter control during takeoff and landing in constrained or obstructed environments, while reducing risk for sensor issues or magnetic interference through greater positioning redundancy – critical for advanced commercial drone delivery operations.
The incorporated GNSS antenna technology is based on the Calian AC4990ECF full band Accutenna® 4 (AC4) Antenna. Calian’s eXtended Filtering mitigates radio frequency out-of-band signal interference (LTE, WiFi, BT, Ligado) with deep tight filtering around the GNSS bands (to -80 dB). XF+ isolates the upper and lower band gain paths to prevent jamming in one path from saturating the antenna.
The smart antenna enclosure option for the Trimble PX-1 RTX is expected to be available through Trimble Applanix sales channels in the third quarter of 2026. An image is attached.
