Horizon is a company in Singapore. It manufactures lots of products for the land surveying market.
Horizon, the company
Many people know this company as Horizon. That name is also in the logo. But the company has also some other official name. That name is Survey Instrument Services Pte Ltd.
Mr. Tang Hui Jen started the company Horizon. Back in those days the company focussed on repair of instruments and they gave service to the clients that needed help on those instruments. Seeing the growth of the market Mr. Tang Hui Jen started to explore about production and manufacturing of land survey accessories in China. The first accessories that Horizon made in China were prisms, staves, tribachs and poles. That is the start of the company.
Horizon kept growing, because they listen and speak to their clients. That helps them to serve their clients better. Nowadays they distribute over more than 50 countries.
That is the result of their mission. Their mission is to offer good quality solutions that have value-for-dollar. They can keep the production costs low because of their office in Shanghai, China. But their main office is still in Singapore. That means that the prices are a bit higher. The Singaporean quality control makes the quality of the products well.
According their website they are better because they price and position their products for the best value.
They don’t believe in too cheap pricing to attract customers, because low prices will make quality, service and support lower. With this last part we can agree.
GNSS receivers of Horizon
Kronos C3+ GNSS receiver
Horizon sells different products. Most of them are in the field of land surveying. But the connection with Apglos are the GNSS receivers. The GNSS receivers of Horizon work with out software. First of all there is the Kronos C3+.
Horizon has more GNSS receivers of this type. There is also Kronos C3 Lite and Horizon Kronos C3. The specifications on this page are of the Kronos C3+.
- Dimensions: 127x143x84 mm
- Weight: 890 gram without battery
- Ingress protection: IP67
- Corrections: NTRIP, RTCM2, RTCM3, CMR, CMR+, CMRx
- Position output: NMEA, PJK, Binary code
- Positioning kinematic horizontal: 8 mm + 1 ppm
- Positioning kinematic vertical: 15 mm + 1 ppm
- GNSS signals tracked: GPS L1, L2, L5, GLONASS L1, L2, L3, BEIDOU B1, B2, GALILEO E1, E5a, E5b
- Number of channels: 220
Kronos 200 GNSS receiver
Another one of their GNSS receivers is the Kronos 200.
The nice thing is that it looks completely different than the Kronos C3+. But the specifications will make clear if it is really different from the other GNSS receievers.
- Dimensions: 186x186x96 mm
- Weight: 1200 gram
- Ingress protection: IP67
- Corrections: NTRIP, RTCM2, RTCM3, CMR, CMR+, CMRx
- Position output: NMEA
- Positioning kinematic horizontal: 8 mm + 1 ppm
- Positioning kinematic vertical: 15 mm + 1 ppm
- GNSS signals tracked: GPS L1, L2, L5, GLONASS L1, L2, BEIDOU B1, B2, GALILEO E1, E5a, E5b, Altboc
- Number of channels: 220
Kronos 500 GNSS receiver
The last GNSS receiver they produce is the Kronos 500.
As you can see Horizon promotes this GNSS receiver as a small GNSS receiver. You can hold it just on the palm of your hand. So let’s see the specifications of the Kronos 500 to see how it performs.
- Dimensions: 129x129x112 mm
- Weight: 970 gram
- Ingress protection: IP67
- Corrections: NTRIP, RTCM2, RTCM3, CMR+, CMRx
- Position output: NMEA, PJK, binary code
- Positioning kinematic horizontal: 8 mm + 1 ppm
- Positioning kinematic vertical: 15 mm + 1 ppm
- GNSS signals tracked: GPS L1, L2, L5, GLONASS L1, L2, L3, BEIDOU B1, B2, B3, GALILEO E1, E5a, E5b
- Number of channels: 220
The size is when you compare it with other receivers not that small. It is a bit smaller, but the difference is not that big.
Surveying software for GNSS receivers of Horizon
Horizon has software for their GNSS receivers. They call it Kronos software. It comes on a CD-rom. So if you want to use the GNSS receivers of Horizon quickly with your Android phone or tablet than there is only one easy solution. That solution is Apglos Survey Wizard.
You can easily connect Apglos Survey Wizard with the Kronos receivers via bluetooth and by using the NMEA strings you will get the exact position in Apglos Survey Wizard. So it works great together. Check out more on this software for the Kronos receivers of Horizon.