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A full-featured 3-axis digital compass designed for flexibility and adaptability — the perfect fit for sonobuoys, ROVs, AUVs, and cost-sensitive applications.

The highest-performance 3-axis compass module in its price range, PNI's CompassPoint™ Prime provides pitch, roll and compass heading anywhere GPS is compromised or unavailable — underwater or underground, beneath bridges or inside buildings. The low-power consumption, low-cost CompassPoint Prime provides all-digital compass heading outputs accurate to 1 degree, can be calibrated to account for magnetic distortions, and offers several user programmable parameters including output damping, reporting units, and sampling configuration.

		2-axis measurement				Integrated Processor
		3-axis measurement				Low power
		Hard- and soft- iron correction

Full featured digital compass...

By combining PNI's patented magneto-inductive sensors with a 3-axis MEMS accelerometer, the Prime is a low-cost compass that provides accurate heading and tilt readings, even at high and low latitudes. PNI's advanced hard and soft iron correction algorithms allow for compensation of magnetic distortions inherent in the user's system, resulting in reliable and consistent readings.

...at a 2 axis price.

By incorporating PNI's patented magneto-inductive sensors and intelligent power-saving algorithms, the Prime consumes less than half the power of magneto-resistive-based compasses. Unlike competetive products, the Prime works well at high and low latitudes where the earth's magnetic field has a very high Z-axis component. Applications include inclusion in binoculars and telescopes, robots and small unmanned vehicles, sonobouys, acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) and seismic monitoring equipment.

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