The Most Precise Gyro Based Drillhead Guidance Tool in its Class

For more than 20 years, iMAR has been manufacturing tools for borehole surveying and drill head steering for both, vertical and horizontal directional drilling (HDD). iANARO is the latest generation of a most robust gyro based drillhead steering tool. It uses a unique technology to provide precise information in order to determine the position of the drillhead in real-time.

The system provides a very accurate, true north related heading and pitch information (azimuth and inclination), even under very strong environmental conditions, up to hard-rock drilling and high rotation rates around the drill axes. Furthermore, it provides environmental and operational information, like temperature, pressure, battery and health status.

The iANARO tool family contains several devices, distiguished according to diameter and accuracy:

• iANARO-HP with 0.04 deg sec Lat heading accuracy
• iANARO-mini with 0.1 deg sec Lat heading accuracy 

Features:

• Best of class tool and solution for trenchless technolgy, long distance pipeline installation, utility and infrastructure drilling, cost-effective precision gyro steering for HDD, complex terrain drilling
• Sensor System Accuracy: 0.04 deg ... 0.1 deg sec lat true north, 0.02 deg pitch accuracy
• Advanced communication between AMD and ACB, integrated additional sensors
• No disturbance by magnetic fields (railways, power lines etc.)
• Online Position monitoring, no costly after-job surveying required
• No calibration at construction area required, operable by customer’s staff
• Leading solution for horizontal boring, gyro directional drilling, directional horizontal drilling

So, the engineers and technicians at iMAR Navigation in Germany are the designing and manufacturing experts of leading gyro-guided Horizontal Directional Drilling Tools since 2004.

Note:

In compliance with our proven design philosophy and our technical code of conduct for development, production, and quality assurance of our products and solutions, only physics determines the behavior of iMAR’s measurement systems. The real-time output of our systems and solutions in the inertial signal path is achieved through the intelligent signal processing developed by our experienced engineers – not by artificial intelligence (AI).

Why?

We cannot recommend that integrators or users entrust the success of critical or general missions in inertial navigation, stabilization or control to the heuristic decisions of AI.

Rely on the high reliability, accuracy, and availability of iMAR solutions, as well as on the leading INS/GNSS/+ expertise and experience of our engineering team in Germany. This is based on our mathematically and physically precise algorithms, traceable results, our sensor, hardware, and algorithm design, and our production facilities, which are certified to military and aviation standards.

Note: We apply AI methods in signal processing where they provide benefits for the application (e.g., for improving image or scenario analysis). However, our highest priority is mission safety – even in so-called corner cases of applications, where AI is typically not sufficiently trained.

 iMAR is the designer of the famous Gyro Steering Tool iGST for Brownline.