Micom-IGPS

Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Over HF Tracking System

The MICOM?-IGPS is an interrogating Automatic Vehicle Location and reporting system which utilizes the best of two very mature and existing reliable technologies: The global positioning system (GPS) and the adaptive very wide area MICOM HF-SSB communication system.

The system is perfectly integrated consisting of a Master Computer Control Station, a MICOM-2EF ALE fixed station and MICOM-2ET ALE trunk mount mobile radios equipped with remote acquisition and control interface (RACI) unit and an automatic antenna tuning system. The system will simultaneously accommodate up to five hundred (500) reporting field units. The Master Computer Control Station will display real time positioning, speed and directional data together with other optional inputs such as telemetry, alarms and/or a series of preprogrammed messages.

The computer based reporting system, located at the Master Computer Control Station, automatically interrogates field units within the HF radio network, retrieving their position using the standard MICOM-2E embedded Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) protocol based on FED-STD-1045 and MIL-STD-188-141. Besides a priority manual override function which provides for single unit interrogation, the system can be configured to flash emergency tracking instigated by individual field units.

The systems provides for user friendly changes in map scales, legends and icons as well as for three hundred and sixty (360) degree merging and rolling map displays. As the AVL system also provides for internet capability based upon MS Explorer and Netscape, any authorized remote user can view the disposition of field units. The availability of extended color scales and different types of grid systems make the versatile MICOM-IGPS the ideal solution for every type of mission.