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iG9 Serial and USB IO Port Definitions

Serial IO Port Definition

PIN

FUNCTION

Ground ( -)

RS232-TX (Output)

PPS (Pulse Output)

Not Used

VIN

RS232-RX (Input)

Figure 3 iG9 7-Pin Serial IO Lemo Connection Information

USB Port Definition

The iG9 has a standard USB Type-C connector.

When connected to a computer with a USB cable, the receiver mounts as a lettered disk drive.

Summary of Contents for iG9

Page 1: ...is for use with iG9 and iG9a RTK GNSS receivers produced by iGage Mapping Corporation Receivers purchased from other sources that appear to be similar will not match devices provisioned by iGage The...

Page 2: ...tellite System BDS also known as COMPASS or BeiDou 2 is operated by CNSA China National Space Administration SBAS Satellite Based Augmentation Services including WAAS USA MSAS Japan EGNOS Europe QZSS...

Page 3: ...Compliance FCC Notice iG9 and iG9a receivers comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to the Part 15 of the FCC rules when it is used in the Portable Mode FCC ID SY4 A01020 Operat...

Page 4: ...ctices for Extending UHF Radio Range 30 Multiple Users on Same Radio Frequency 30 Base Output Power Setting 31 Bad Antennas 31 External Antenna Extension Top of Pole Extension 31 Loose TNC Antenna Con...

Page 5: ...Case Scenarios 66 Semi Trucks and Trains 66 Large Structures to the South 67 Huge Trees to the South 67 Huge Trees Overhead 67 Large Reflective Surfaces Nearby 68 Deep Canyons 68 Power Poles 69 9 Opti...

Page 6: ...available from www iG9 xyz Click on Tools for firmware FAQs and other iG9 information Don t hesitate to call iGage for assistance deploying using or updating your device Remote assistance is availabl...

Page 7: ...munication between the receiver and a data collector controller You can change many of the basic settings of the receiver with the two front panel buttons and LCD panel Additional configuration settin...

Page 8: ...for 3 seconds to turn the receiver ON or OFF Tap to accept a modified value Enter Receiver Back and Bottom 4G nano SIM Card iG9 receivers have a NANO sized Sim Card slot NANO is the smallest sized si...

Page 9: ...e battery contacts and the SIM card contacts will be damaged Serial Power 7 pin LEMO connector supports RS 232 communication and external power 9 to 28 VDC input Note even if external power is supplie...

Page 10: ...sonable combination of receivers and accessories can be provided for specific needs Depending on your purchased configuration you will receive different accessories with your iG9 GNSS receivers iG9 iG...

Page 11: ...pdate the receiver firmware with a thumbdrive Included with Rover USB 2 0 Cable A Male to Type C Used to connect the receiver to a PC and download occupations from the internal memory Included with Ro...

Page 12: ...ed rugged hard cases with custom foam inserts and plenty of compartments to protect your receiver and accessories Included with Base and Rover Optional Accessories iGA High Gain UHF Antenna Extends UH...

Page 13: ...er than 160 F 70 C as it will permanently reduce the battery capacity and life DO NOT leave the iG9 or accessories inside a vehicle in the summer Temperatures higher than 160 F will permanently reduce...

Page 14: ...volt battery Remember that the receiver GNSS antennas were calibrated with two batteries inserted The phase center may change if you remove the batteries Please keep at least one charged battery in t...

Page 15: ...sions UHF Safety and General Information When used in the transmitting mode even though the broadcast power is relatively low you should take these additional precautions Medical Devices Hearing Aids...

Page 16: ...in Morse Code every 15 minutes Putting a label on the devices with your FCC ID Keeping a copy of your FCC License with the transmitting devices when they are in use as a transmitter In January 2020 th...

Page 17: ...verview Menu will be shown Clicking either button or will display the Main Menu You can move the current selection through each of the items Info Sv Mode Power Data Set by clicking the Fn Left button...

Page 18: ...ected click the Power Enter button to select Front Panel Info The Info screen shows Device Serial Number Device Part Number spread over 3 lines Device Main Firmware Registration Status Operation Mode...

Page 19: ...n again to return to the main menu Front Panel Receiver Mode The Mode screen allows selection of the receiver operation mode Base External UHF Base Internal UHF Base APIS Base External UHF APIS Rover...

Page 20: ...on or custom Port 9901 9902 9920 OK Cancel Base External UHF APIS Format sCMRx RTCM2 3 RTCM3 RTCM3 2 RTD CMR CMR IP select from common or custom Port 9901 9902 9920 OK Cancel Rover APIS Base ID enter...

Page 21: ...g On and Off The action does not occur until you move to the OK line and click Enter to accept changes Select Advanced to control the recording file parameters Recording Sample Interval default 1 seco...

Page 22: ...nds time before returning to the Overview screen Display Sleep Time time until the screen turns off WIFI On Off Click Enter to toggle On and Off WIFI Mode AP Access Point STA Station 4G SIM number OEM...

Page 23: ...rvPC Contact iGage to receive either PDF or hardcopy versions of these Getting Started Guides Using IMU Tilt Compensation The iG9 receiver has a accurate fast IMU based Tilt Compensation function buil...

Page 24: ...t Tilts that result in a higher offset will pause measurements Finally click Accept The SURVEY or STAKING screen will be shown A translucent tilt indicator will be displayed on the map bottom As the I...

Page 25: ...y you only need to shake the receiver 0 01 in one direction to immediately reinitialize the IMU When staking the tilt angle is shown Carlson SurvPC Note SurvCE running on Windows Mobile Devices will n...

Page 26: ...t that it is uninitialized the smallest shake 0 01 of the pole will reinitialize the IMU for another 30 seconds If the receiver drops to a FLOAT or DGPS solution the IMU initialization will be lost ho...

Page 27: ...t Sensor Test is valuable for field crews to understand the limitations of tilt compensation Tilt Related Raw Data Records Raw files RW5 will have additional measurement records when tilt is enabled G...

Page 28: ...nce from GNSS Phase Center PC to pole point Ground Mark GM Header Description GSAL GNSS Sensors Absolute Linear deviations TXL Tilt X relative distance to point feet meters TYL Tilt Y relative distanc...

Page 29: ...ng you to hold the pole upright And rocking the pole forward then back to vertical or left right and back to upright again After a few moments the IMU initialize and detailed pole tilt information wil...

Page 30: ...mething else on the same frequency using voice or data they will greatly reduce the distance you can move from your Base This the most common cause of bad radio range Use a Handheld UHF radio to check...

Page 31: ...output as high of power as possible The setting for the Base output power is under Equip GPS Base RTK tab Internal UHF Radio Settings If 2 watts with an elevated antenna is not sufficient we recommen...

Page 32: ...ns The antenna connector can become intermittent and not make a solid connection If antenna is over tightened then the connection points shown below can become sprung and won t make good contact unles...

Page 33: ...e blade to extract the correct nano sized card the smallest punch out With the iG9 head battery door swung UP looking into the battery compartment the SIM card is inserted with the gold connectors fac...

Page 34: ...riate APN for the card Set the Dial String to 99 leave the User Name and Password empty Click Save Turn off the GPRS Modem by clicking OFF wait 10 seconds then turn the GPRS Modem on again by clicking...

Page 35: ...opy and multipath can make Mission Planning worthwhile There are many web and computer Based mission planning tools The online resource https www gnssplanningonline com is used for this example First...

Page 36: ...age iG9 User Manual GDOPs higher than 3 will present difficult operation GDOPs higher than 5 may not fix under canopy Usually waiting 20 minutes for the constellation to improve will make a huge diffe...

Page 37: ...not On click the Fn button three times to move down and highlight WIFI Off and click the Enter button to turn WIFI On Wi Fi turns off after 15 minutes to Save Power To save power if the Wi Fi modem i...

Page 38: ...r then click on Connect Enter the Wi Fi password 12345678 Click on Next to connect by Wi Fi to the GPS head Open a browser window on your PC and type in the GPS IP address http 192 168 1 1 A Login scr...

Page 39: ...iGage iG9 User Manual 39 From the Wi Fi interface you can configure nearly every aspect of the receiver s operation using the left hand section tabs and sub items...

Page 40: ...o The programming tool will run on any PC With this tool you can create a standard list modify frequencies and reorder the frequency list When the frequency list matches your FCC License then you can...

Page 41: ...ule Setting then Radio Settings If the Radio Status is Off click On to turn on the radio power The Call Sign Status should be set to ON the Call Sign Interval should be 15 minutes or less the Call Sig...

Page 42: ...ceiver wait for it to boot plug in the USB Cable to your computer The iG9 receiver mounts as a USB thumb drive flash drive on your Windows computer No special drivers are required To download data fro...

Page 43: ...header will reverse order the grid If you have any short or unneeded occupations you can select and delete them the Delete Occupation button For the remaining observations enter the values you recorde...

Page 44: ...and Instrument Height Click on the Submit for OPUS button U S National Geodetic Survey Note you may select an alternative PPP Service provider on the configuration tab Some of the alternative provider...

Page 45: ...press Control V then click the Open button with your mouse You will need to manually select the antenna type as prompted by the iGx Download tool The download tool cannot automate the antenna selecti...

Page 46: ...t to OPUS Common reasons for wanting to do this include Receiver is turned on while sitting on your tailgate and then moved 20 feet and spun onto the tripod The first 5 minutes of the observation are...

Page 47: ...download the User Guide for TEQC from the UNAVCO web site TEQC is a great tool for evaluating both the receiver s performance and the site suitability for collected data Advanced Download Settings Co...

Page 48: ...ns are not really deleted they are moved to the _Deleted folder An undelete function is included in Utilities on the Settings tab _Error Sometimes short occupations won t include navigation records th...

Page 49: ...ed to your computer with the USB cable click on the Update GPS Model button to display this dialog Use the drop down Receiver Model to change the receiver type If the HCN Key has been lost you can fin...

Page 50: ...le basis Typically the Agency name is two to five characters with no spaces While most strings up to 20 characters in length will be accepted you may cause issues with other programs that consume gene...

Page 51: ...OPUS Projects the GPS Settings and Log tab OPUS Projects Displays the OPUS Projects checkbox which allows automatic submission to an NGS registered project Advanced Displays the GPS Settings and Log t...

Page 52: ...s and US Survey Feet or International Feet at the bottom of the report The download tool defaults to Extended checked for this reason Prior to submitting an OPUS report you can modify any of the Optio...

Page 53: ...will read every single file on the receiver This will take quite a bit of time if your receiver has hundreds of files GPS Settings Hidden when Simple To modify the GPS Settings or view the log select...

Page 54: ...out elevation please remember that a 2 hour OPUS static observation has an expected height accuracy of 2 5 cm A 6 hour occupation has an expected accuracy of 1 5 cm Again longer times are better Your...

Page 55: ...u are processing OPUS RS jobs in an area with very few CORS stations and one CORS station was offline waiting will not help OPUS Static is the solution for locations where OPUS RS is not dependable CO...

Page 56: ...e sure you use the left hand column NAD_83 results not the right hand column IGS08 Be careful with heights Both ellipsoid and orthometric heights are listed The orthometric height is NAVD88 GPS derive...

Page 57: ...red Your site must be within 50 km of a polygon created by the remaining available CORS If the eligible CORS count is low check the past reliability of recent observations to ensure that there is a hi...

Page 58: ...tab set Show Advanced Settings to Support OPUS Projects 2 Add the NGS registered OPUS Projects Project Identifier supplied by your project administrator Click the button Enter the exact identifier as...

Page 59: ...hat shows the daily number of jobs and the daily success rate On most days over 25 of all submitted OPUS RS Rapid Static jobs fail Relatively few OPUS Static jobs fail and most of the Static jobs that...

Page 60: ...higan If you are in the middle of Utah there are very few CORS sites available on the best of days On a bad day if a few stations are offline or have not yet archived data then your OPUS RS solution w...

Page 61: ...ire observation data in two separate UTC days In other words your observation spans midnight UTC 5 Some areas of the United States effectively ONLY have Daily Data Consider Western Utah Daily Stations...

Page 62: ...r uncertainty and result in higher peak to peak error estimates If we resubmit the 2nd occupation on Wednesday it will have excellent results like the first observation A The receivers are identical a...

Page 63: ...d to stable masonry structures or well engineered ground monuments have booked coordinates that are within 2 cm of their apparent actual location have state of the art choke ring antenna have short hi...

Page 64: ...and all the error bars are fully contained in the green error bands Coupled with continuous recent Data Availability this station appears be a great CORS resource However if you look at a station s Ti...

Page 65: ...d locations Best Case Scenario The best possible site would have a totally clear view of the sky above 10 at all azimuths where there is a possibility of a GPS satellite being in the sky Obstructions...

Page 66: ...onsider respecting them Worst Case Scenarios All of the sites presented below are actual customer sites or in some cases slightly obfuscated locations to save embarrassment Remember that during times...

Page 67: ...rn sky is fully blocked and trees obscure view directly overhead We can debate leaves on leaves off pine needles vs broad leaves length of pine needles size of tree trunks size of branches But trees a...

Page 68: ...es like corrugated roofing are even worse Some mirrored glass windowing used on building exteriors is reflective at microwave frequencies Box truck bodies metal buildings metal roofs and open water ar...

Page 69: ...You should avoid locations that are under high voltage transmission lines and have large steel towers directly to the south Smaller power poles and lines are also unacceptable especially if they are s...

Page 70: ...With modern GNSS RTK receivers that track lots of satellite constellations and lots of signals mission planning is no longer required A full GNSS receiver tracks so many satellites that there are no b...

Page 71: ...pensation errors Wrong antenna type is selected No battery in head with external power Use a Fixed Height Tripod Get the HI Correct The 1 OPUS procedure failure is a blundered instrument height The ON...

Page 72: ...on of the satellite in the sky and the XY offset of the center of the antenna from the center of the mounting nut OPUS compensates for the northing easting offset assuming the antenna is facing North...

Page 73: ...e OPUS fails Yes OPUS is substantially more finicky than modern GNSS RTK OPUS jobs routinely fail in places and at times that iG9 RTK works flawlessly There are two primary reasons number of satellite...

Page 74: ...atellites is like a small laser beam This is incorrect The GPS beam width is spread out in a cigar shaped area known as the Fresnel Zone Fresnel is pronounced with a silent s Frenel named after French...

Page 75: ...hink Here is a beam width chart for GPS L1 1 575 GHz 1 foot above your GNSS antenna the beam width is 1 6 in diameter 20 feet above the Rover antenna perhaps the midpoint of tree canopy the 1st Fresne...

Page 76: ...receiver should begin tracking within 30 seconds after a warm start After a cold start off for more than 1 week it may take 90 seconds for the receiver to begin tracking If the receiver will not trac...

Page 77: ...1 Ground 2 Ground 3 RS232 TX Output 4 PPS Pulse Output 5 Not Used 6 VIN 7 RS232 RX Input Figure 3 iG9 7 Pin Serial IO Lemo Connection Information USB Port Definition The iG9 has a standard USB Type C...

Page 78: ...artphone via Wi Fi on page 37 to get your PC connected to the receiver by Wi Fi and logged into the web interface Click on Firmware then Firmware Upgrade 1 then Browse 2 find and select the firmware f...

Page 79: ...iGage iG9 User Manual 79 Click on Firmware then Upgrade then Browse and find the firmware finally click on Confirm The receiver will reboot twice during the upgrade process...

Page 80: ...r Smartphone via Wi Fi on page 37 Once connected from the Main Menu Click on Receiver Configuration Receiver Reset then Clear Satellite Data Confirm You can also reboot the entire receiver clear the s...

Page 81: ...ick the Fn key once to OK The receiver will display Reset OEM Board Resetting then after 15 seconds the receiver will reboot Resetting the engine erases the OEM Engine memory erases all satellite data...

Page 82: ...m Radius 55 3 mm SHMP 74 2 mm ARP Bottom of Antenna Mount BAM North Reference Turn Display to North The antenna designator is CHCI90 NONE 12345678901234567890 A summary of the atx file G01 START OF FR...

Page 83: ...from the Ground Mark GM to the bottom of the receiver s 5 8 11 TPI nut the ARP Antenna Reference Point Manually Converting Heights Receiver Radius r meters SHMP h meters iG9 0 07505 0 0742 s2 r2 h v...

Page 84: ...or 30 days from the date of return shipment or for the balance of the original warranty whichever is longer Software IMC warrants that software products included with hardware products will be free fr...

Page 85: ...r such damages even if IMC has been advised of the possibility of such damages This written warranty is the complete final and exclusive agreement between IMC and the Purchaser RMA To obtain warranty...

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