Successful Launch of Leica SmartNet Bulgaria

On November 23rd in Sofia, Leica SmartNet Bulgaria was launched in partnership with IPOS (owners of Bulipos), who will operate the control center and Metrisys (Leica Geosystems distributor), who will take charge of the full commercial service, including user support and subscriptions.

The agreement forms a new three-way partnership bringing the technical expertise from IPOS to operate the network infrastructure, together with Metrisys, who will manage all the commercial services, support and subscriptions. Leica Geosystems have provided the latest GNSS network software technology, in the form of Leica GNSS Spider, SpiderWeb, and SpiderQC, together with additional Leica GR10 reference station receivers and Leica AR10 antennas to densify the network, with the very latest GNSS receiver technology.

Full national coverage with extra redundancy will be available from the end of December 2010, including data from EUPOS sites in neighboring countries. RTK Users can test the benefits of using the most innovative and advanced network in Bulgaria for free until January 2011. Flexible subscriptions will then be available for all types of applications and connection times.

Web services powered by Leica SpiderWeb, SpiderQC and Leica Geo Office, will include Network QC graphs, RINEX downloads and a computation service. Users can also update their profiles or order new subscriptions on-line, via the SmartNet Business Center.

Leica SmartNet Bulgaria: A network consisting of 39 reference stations equipped with latest Leica Geosystems technology provides correction data 24/7 for many GNSS applications.

(From left to right:)  Stanimir Stoykov, Technical Manager, IPOS; Rumen Pelovski, IT Manager, IPOS; Mark Burbidge, SmartNet EMEA Project Manager, Leica Geosystems; Sepp Englberger, Regional Director South Eastern Europe, Leica Geosystems; Elias Costopoulos, Managing Director, Metrisys; Peter Balkanski, Sales Manager, Metrisys

Internet: www.leica-geosystems.com and www.smartnet.bg