Real Time Ground Penetration Radar- GPR
- RunCom has vast experience in radio technologies and signal processing, this competence gives RunCom a massive advantage in the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) market.
Traditional GPR companies excel at rugged hardware and basic geology. The industry is currently undergoing digital transformation where software, advanced modulation, and signal intelligence are in the front of the cutting edge
:The Runcom RunGPR product offers
- Advanced Waveform Design (Beyond current traditional Impulse)
.Most commercial GPRs still rely on traditional "impulse" radio (short, high-energy pulses). With our skills we can leapfrog this aged technology
· SFCW Implementation: we can design superior Stepped-Frequency Continuous Wave (SFCW) systems, which offer better dynamic range and depth-to-resolution optimization.
· Noise Immunity: Our knowledge of advanced modulation allows us to build systems that filter out heavy urban (cellular, Wi-Fi) RF noise far better incumbent competitors.
· Orthogonal Waveforms: We can implement MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) antenna arrays using orthogonal signals to scan large areas simultaneously with minimal crosstalk.
2. Next-Gen Signal Processing & Clutter Rejection
GPR data is extremely noisy, often requiring human experts to interpret "fuzzy" hyperbolas. Our signal processing background can revolutionize this workflow.
· Real-Time de-cluttering: RunCom can apply advanced algorithms (like sophisticated subspace filtering or Kalman filtering) to strip away surface reflections and soil clutter.
· Super-Resolution Algorithms: By applying algorithms like MUSIC (Multiple Signal Classification) or ESPRIT, we can resolve closely spaced objects that traditional solutions see as a single echo.
· Compressive Sensing: we can reconstruct high-quality subsurface images from fewer physical data points, drastically speeding up scan times.
3. Software-Defined GPR (SD-GPR)
Traditional hardware is rigid, expensive to manufacture, slow to update and complicated to deploy.
· Agile Hardware: We can build Software-Defined Radios (SDRs) and FPGAs based systems.
· Frequency Flexibility: Instead of selling different antennas for different depths (e.g., below 200MHz for deep, 1GHz for shallow), our agile software can shift and adapt frequencies on the fly.
· App-Store Model: we can sell a hardware unit and charge subscription fees for specific software capabilities (e.g., a "concrete scanning mode" vs. a "utility mapping mode") for customer projects with upgrades for other usecases.
4. Machine Learning Integration Pipeline
AI is only as good as the data it receives. Clean, well-processed signals make machine learning highly effective.
· Feature Extraction: our team knowledge and database know enable us to extract clean phase, amplitude, and frequency features from raw RF data.
· Automatic Target Recognition (ATR): we can feed these high-quality features into AI based platforms to automatically identify pipes, tree roots, or cracks, minimizing human guesswork.