OPS7243-A Doppler Radar Sensor
The OPS7243-A provides a simple radar sensor solution in an all-weather, IP67 enclosure that can quickly and easily detect and report motion, speed, and direction for objects in its field of view. A simple API enables a flexible solution that can be tailored for different applications.
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Description
OPS7243-A Short Range Radar Sensor
The OPS7243-A is Doppler radar sensor providing motion detection, speed, and direction reporting in an all-weather IP67 enclosure. Motion, speed, and direction information is provided over a USB interface. A simple API provides control over the reporting format, sample rate, and module power levels. The sensor carries full FCC/IC regulatory approval and comes with a USB cable.
Features
- 1-100m (3-328’) detection range
- Speed reporting in excess of 138mph
- Speed accurate to within 0.5%
- Direction reporting (Inbound/Outbound)
- Narrow 20° beam width (-3 dBm)
- All-weather IP67 enclosure
- USB interface
- Simple API control
- 1.5W Active power, 0.7W Idle power
- Small form factor 130 x 130 x 35 mm, 311g
Applications
- Traffic Monitoring
- IoT Sensor
- Robot Safety Monitoring
Documentation
Additional information
Weight | 1 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7 × 7 × 4 in |
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Recent Updates
New Rolling Buffer feature for detection of very high speed events implemented in v1.2.3 of the OPS243-A code. The Rolling Buffer can be used for capturing bullet muzzle velocity or baseball. New AN-27 Rolling Buffer application note explains the details and reference Python code to enable and trigger the data capture available on GitHub. AN-10 API Interface is updated for the new feature.
The Field of View Calculator is updated to provide the width and length of the field of view based on the mounting inputs. The width relates to the horizontal beamwidth at the field of view center point and the length relates to the vertical beamwidth.
Updated AN-10 API Interface application note now available with vehicle classification OC mode description.
Updated version of AN-21 Vehicle Classification added.
Simple Matlab script for displaying plot of speed values posted to GitHub.
New Doppler & FMCW radar calculator provides speed and range resolution or max speed or range depending on radar configuration.
Confirm the accuracy of your OPS24x radar sensor with a tuning fork. See the full explanation in the new AN-26 Speed Accuracy Measurement Using Tuning Forks or watch the new YouTube video.
New page on our website provides instant viewing of data from your OPS24x radar sensor. Simply plug it into your PC via USB and go to our Serial Port page to see speed and/or range data from the sensor.
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AN-14 UART and Arduino Support has been updated to cover all OPS24x sensors.
New AN-21 Vehicle Classification application note added for use with machine learning (ML) processing of vehicle classification and lane detection.
Updated AN-10 API Interface application note with details about moving average, higher sample rates.
Blues, a cellular IoT provider, has released a new application write-up for OPS243-A and camera based traffic monitor which object detection. The full write-up and code source files are located on their GitHub site here.
Just published Telkom University (Indonesia) research on determining soil water content using the OPS243-C.