{"id":2916,"date":"2017-01-04T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2916"},"modified":"2018-03-04T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T14:37:59","slug":"nearest-mountpt-use-case-examples","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-use-case-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearest MountPt, use case examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This article provides a few practical details and comments on setting up a <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-use\/\">NEARest<\/a> data stream on a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>node.\u00a0 It follow another <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-use\/\">article <\/a>which serves to introduce the new NEARest mountPt feature in SNIP.<\/p>\n<p>For this article we have used the <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/adding-remote-relayed-data-streams\/\">remote-relay<\/a> mode to connect a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> node to four different networks (our <a href=\"http:\/\/ntrip.itsware.net:2101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own<\/a>, a private <a href=\"http:\/\/esricaster.esri.com:2101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party<\/a>, and two government run networks) to create a local regional network of casters in the greater San Gabriel valley area.\u00a0 It is located near our primary offices with <strong>eight<\/strong> well spaced base stations all providing RTCM3 L1\/L2 data.\u00a0 The San Gabriel valley is part of the Los Angles basin in California, USA.\u00a0 The resulting network is shown in the <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/support-for-basic-mapping\/\">map display<\/a> image created by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>bellow:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2922 size-full\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool.png\" alt=\"nearest_localpool\" width=\"838\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool.png 838w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool-50x34.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool-600x407.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool-320x217.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The local freeway network (in this case using Interstate I-10) provides a convenient way to travel in a general East-West direction which we will use to demonstrate the connection of an <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\">NTRIP Client<\/a> Rover device as it proceeds.\u00a0 By adjusting the controls provided by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>, the operators can control the hand-over process by which a new Caster stream is selected to suit their needs.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Setting up a Regional NEAR stream<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The purpose of this article is to cover some of the operational considerations and issues you will see when operating a NEAR network stream.\u00a0 The actual process of setting up such a stream on your <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>Caster is covered in this <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-stream-contents\/\">article <\/a>where the various controls are explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Base Station data streams which form any NEAR mountPt are referred in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> documentation to as a &#8220;pool&#8221;\u00a0 This collection of stations (the pool) all share common attributes selected by the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> operator.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, an operator may want to only use station offering both GPS and GLONASS data streams.\u00a0 The members of the pool are managed by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> as the various stream come on-line.\u00a0 A data stream must be on-line and otherwise stable for ~180 seconds before it will be considered for inclusion into a pool.\u00a0 This serves to prevent using data streams that may be transitory.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Typical Performance Expectations<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can be helpful to recall what the general expected performance of a rover will be when connected to a base station as the distance between them varies.\u00a0 You can find many technical articles covering details of this topic at <a href=\"http:\/\/ion.org\">ION<\/a> and elsewhere.\u00a0 But in general terms &#8211; and as long as the raw data is good, <strong>nearer is better<\/strong> and both accuracy and precision falls off with greater distance.\u00a0 Commonly stated in RTK application slang:\u00a0 the rover can not can get into &#8220;fixed&#8221; mode when too far away.\u00a0 Consider the radial distance lines in the image below at 10, 20, 40 and 75 kilometers from one the above base stations .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2919\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings.png\" alt=\"nearest_acastersandrings\" width=\"1252\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings.png 1252w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings-1024x694.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings-50x34.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings-920x624.png 920w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings-600x407.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_ACastersAndRings-320x217.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1252px) 100vw, 1252px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One can confidently expect that an unobstructed L1\/L2 rover will be able to achieve reasonable RTK performance (that is a very large percentage of the time to be in <strong>fixed<\/strong> ambiguity resolution (AR) mode), even under kinematic states, out to ~40km or so (the 3rd ring shown).\u00a0 With greater distances, the percentage of <strong>float<\/strong> behavior, increases and predominating out to the final ring at ~75km and beyond where fix mode is very unlikely to occur.\u00a0 At the shorter radial distances, such devices are often able to achieve a fixed AR state in a single measurement epoch or two.\u00a0 Other then advent of <em>faster<\/em>, <em>cheaper<\/em>, <em>better<\/em> devices this the stock RTK of the past two+ decades. NTRIP and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>just serve to make it more accessible to more users at a much lower cost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By contrast, lower cost L1-only devices (which cannot therefore directly measure the ionospheric effects they are experiencing) have a more limited range where they can achieve a fixed AR mode (especially when moving), limiting their abilities.\u00a0 In the above image we have drawn the cut off point at a 10km separation distance from the base station (a somewhat conservative choice of value).\u00a0 At distances beyond this, the percentage of time spent fixed drops until it is not obtainable.\u00a0 And the device is reduced to either a full time float mode or using DGPS type corrections (which often serve to better remove other residual error of ~1 meter which are present when only using SBAS\/WAAS corrections).\u00a0 <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/ublox-tests-with-a-1000-meter-baseline\/\">Here<\/a> is a typical example of what you can expect for this at a static 1km distance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Aside:<\/strong><\/span> In the above discussion we presume the radio \/ cellular link between the rover and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> is working to deliver the stream of corrections. When the radio link is not reliable, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> has various patented and proprietary methods to overcome this, but their use is restricted to Enterprise license users.\u00a0 Please contact SCSC if you have such a need.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Review of how NEAR works<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consider a simpler network with only three base stations and the rover device moving along the simple East-West line as shown in green.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2920\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings.png\" alt=\"nearest_localpool_threecasterswrings\" width=\"1254\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings.png 1254w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings-1024x695.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings-50x34.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings-920x624.png 920w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings-600x407.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NEARest_LocalPool_ThreeCasterswRings-320x217.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1254px) 100vw, 1254px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is causally obvious that as the rover proceeds from one side of this area to the other it will find each of the three base stations to be the closest for periods of time spanning tens of minutes or more\u00a0 [we presume LA traffic speeds \ud83d\ude42 ].\u00a0 In fact, when the rover is inside the black circles (within &lt;10km of each base station) even an L1-only device is likely to have no problems achieving a fixed AR mode of operation and its inherent ~2cm accuracy.<\/p>\n<h4>Hysteresis<\/h4>\n<p>The interesting question from the above is <em>when<\/em> the change to a new caster connection is best made.\u00a0 And in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>this is handled by the concept of a <strong>Hysteresis <\/strong>value which is set by the operator for each of the NEAR streams.<\/p>\n<p>By setting the value <em>very low<\/em>, changes to new caster will occur more often as the rover moves.\u00a0 By setting the value <em>high<\/em>, such changes will occur less often.<\/p>\n<p>The default value is 2km (~1.2 miles) which means that as the sets of distances are re-evaluated (every time the NTRIP Client ROVER sends in a new NEMA-183 $GGA message), then any potential new &#8220;shorter&#8221; distance has to be shorter to the proposed new base station by<em> at least<\/em> the hysteresis value before it will be used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Aside<\/strong><\/span>: And by setting the hysteresis value <em>very high<\/em>, the initial base station stream to which an NTRIP Client is assigned can be made to persist indefinitely (or at least as long as that stream remains active).\u00a0 This mode of operation has some value with older devices when the GNSS of the NTRIP Client is not able to change base stations on the fly. It can also be of value in some stationary rover applications or when rover movement is constrained (such as a precision agriculture in a small operating area).<\/p>\n<h4>The Initial Connection Point<\/h4>\n<p>When a NTRIP Client first connects to NEAR stream, the normal &#8220;200 Ok&#8221; reply is sent.\u00a0 Then, unlike a normal stream which begins sending immediately, the Caster awaits the initial NEMA-183 $GGA message from the rovers.\u00a0 [Aside, in NTRIP revision 2 the rover location can also be sent along with the initial connection]\u00a0 Every time the $GGA message is sent, the Caster re-evaluates the best best stream to be used according to the current settings and connects that NTRIP Client to another stream when conditions warrant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hint<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 You can always see a report of the connected users with: the last $GGA message, a count of how many such messages have been received, the lat-long data in a more readable form, and the distance to the current base station by pressing the <em><strong>List Current Users&#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>button on the <strong>Caster and Clients<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">There are currently 2 NTRIP client connections. SNIP is feeding data to these remote points:\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 MountPt: <strong>SCSC \u00a0<\/strong> 192.168.2.105 : 57259 [#<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>C22<\/strong><\/span>]\u00a0\u00a0 '<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Anonymous<\/strong><\/span>' \u00a0 Sent: 284.69 KB Connected for: 15:27.388 MIN:SEC\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 LastNMEA: \u00a0 $GPGGA,211621.81,3408.1987406,N,11749.8103974,W,1,00,1.0,278.503,M,-33.504,M,0.0,*78 (185th msg)\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Location: \u00a0 Lat: 34.13664568 (deg), \u00a0 Lon: -117.83017329 (deg), \u00a0 Ht: 312.007 (m) \u00a0 \u00a0 [1,081.5 m to base]<\/pre>\n<p>The very first time the $GGA message is the first moment when the stream assignment occurs.\u00a0 If no $GGA message is ever sent (indicating an ill configured NTRIP Client, or one whose GNSS is no operational), then that NTRIP Client is disconnected from the Caster after a reasonable delay.\u00a0 If only one $GGA message is ever sent, then that value is used, resulting in a permanent assignment to the closest stream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Aside<\/strong><\/span>: If the assigned stream were to fail, the NTRIP Client will immediately be automatically re-assigned to the next closest suitable stream, see below for an example of this using the above connection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Interesting Side note<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 Many GNSS devices do not send their RTK precise location estimate in the $GGA message, and in fact send only a simple (crude) least squares estimate.\u00a0 Do not presume the $GGA message is precise until checking with the vendor.\u00a0 When sending cm level LLH data, additional digits of precision must be added to the traditional $GGA message.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> will process these additional digits when present (and use them in the displayed maps), but some NMEA processing software will not.<\/p>\n<p>Often cellular type radio links will fail when used in a moving vehicle.\u00a0 Upon re-connection, the NTRIP Client again presents a new NEMA-183 $GGA message to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Caster and the process resumes as described above.<\/p>\n<h4>On <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> starting<\/h4>\n<p>The NEAR pool is only made up of stable data streams.\u00a0 This can be an issue during the first few minutes of operation.\u00a0 If the NEAR function is enabled on a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> node, the function will restart with each power cycle just like all the other data streams (reusing the user settings from the last run).\u00a0 From a cold start it requires about three minutes to complete this process.\u00a0 During the start-up time all the candidate streams are parsed and monitored to ensure they are stable, and the precise location of the data is determined. You can see a count down timer in the <em><strong>Nearest<\/strong> <\/em>tab when this is occurring. Once at least one suitable stream has been selected, the NEAR pool will be created and entered into the Caster table.<\/p>\n<p>During this short period time to startup, the NTRIP Clients cannot connect to the NEAR pool and there is no entry in the Caster Table for it.\u00a0 Of course all of the other streams are available or connection as soon as they come online.\u00a0 NTRIP Clients requesting such a NEAR stream receive the normal Caster table (as per the NTRIP protocol) and are disconnected until the NEAR pool is published.<\/p>\n<p>As new Base Station streams come and go, the pool members are evaluated and managed.\u00a0 Because of this, when there is a failure in a base station which then resumes sending data, it will be automatically restored to the pool without user intervention.\u00a0 The current members of the pool can be displayed at any time (in both the console and the map display) by pressing the <strong>View Map<\/strong> button in the <em><strong>Nearest<\/strong> <\/em>tab.\u00a0 You can also hover the mouse over the NEAR slot display and the tool tip will list the current pool members.<\/p>\n<h4>On Base Station Failures and Hand-Offs<\/h4>\n<p>When any Base Station used in a NEAR pool fails, all the clients connected to it are automatically re-assigned to the next closest suitable stream.\u00a0 This event is reflected in the console log.\u00a0 The process is automatic and serves to provide uninterrupted services to critical users.\u00a0 When a change is made, the current EFEC message (and other static antenna data) for that stream is sent out first to enable the rover device to detect that the data source has changed.<\/p>\n<p>This process will repeat as needed until there are no suitable streams available to be used. An event where multiple Base Station failures have occurred is typically very rare and is more often associated with regional internet failure events. Here is an example of what the log will say for a NTRIP Client connect to a near stream when five Base Stations were caused to fail in short order (this was a test case not an actual event).<\/p>\n<pre>[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>C22<\/strong><\/span>]:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A client Changed Stream event has just occurred, moving connection from: <strong>SCSC<\/strong> now --&gt; to: <strong>SCSC02<\/strong>\r\n[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>C22<\/strong><\/span>]:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A client Changed Stream event has just occurred, moving connection from: <strong>SCSC02<\/strong> now --&gt; to: <strong>AZU1_RTCM3<\/strong>\r\n[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>C22<\/strong><\/span>]:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A client Changed Stream event has just occurred, moving connection from: <strong>AZU1_RTCM3<\/strong> now --&gt; to: <strong>CLAR_RTCM3<\/strong>\r\n[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>C22<\/strong><\/span>]:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A client Changed Stream event has just occurred, moving connection from: <strong>CLAR_RTCM3<\/strong> now --&gt; to: <strong>P612_RTCM3<\/strong>\r\n[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>C22<\/strong><\/span>]:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A client Changed Stream event has just occurred, moving connection from: <strong>P612_RTCM3<\/strong> now --&gt; to: <strong>gisar30<\/strong>\r\n[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>gisar30<\/strong><\/span>]:\u00a0\u00a0Client C22 disconnected, because no other suitable NEAR stream was found in NEAR3 pool<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Selecting a Maximum Connection Distance<\/h4>\n<p>The NEAR controls allow a simple baseline distance value to be set, beyond which an NTRIP Client rover can not connect to a Base Station.\u00a0 Different values can be set for the RTCM2 and RTCM3 NEAR stream to reflect the decorrelation limits you wish to allow. The default value for RTCM3 streams is 60km, a reasonable distance for L1-L2 RTK applications. See this article on the NEAR controls for further details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Aside:<\/strong><\/span> If you operate a NEAR stream<em> without<\/em> a region being defined or used (that is, to allow any stream located anywhere in the world can be part of the pool), then this threshold value becomes your primary way to prevent users beyond a reasonable coverage area from connecting to the closest member of the pool. Consider a pool operating the general southeast Michigan area (Detroit) and a user in\u00a0Chicago Illinois. The distance between these two points is about ~480km.\u00a0 If the Maximum Baseline Distance were set to 5000km such a connection would be allowed to occur.\u00a0 It is conceivable such a long baseline might be used with RTCM2 (DGPS methods) but but not with RTK.<\/p>\n<h3>Further Information<\/h3>\n<p>The NEAR MountPt Setting Dialog is explained <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-dialog\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides a few practical details and comments on setting up a NEARest data stream on a SNIP node.\u00a0 It follow another article which serves to introduce the new NEARest mountPt feature in SNIP. 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