I was recently rewarded No.1 of the Station Setup Challenge in one of Onocoys challenges with 3 of Emlid`s RS2 receivers. Link to X post (Twitter) x.com
🏆 The results are in!
The onocoy team has voted, and we’re excited to announce the winners of our Station Setup Challenge! 🎉
It wasn’t easy to choose, but here are our 6 winners:
In honor of this award I thought I would give a shoutout to both Onocoy and Emlid. And also give a brief introduction to what the fuzz is about.
In super short term; Onocoy enables mass adoption of high precision positioning using blockchain technology. Advances in Web3 technology with blockchain and smart contracts make it possible to build and operate very large, decentralized GNSS reference station networks efficiently and securely.
You get rewarded by providing GNSS reference station data to onocoy.
If this is your cup of tea, head over to Onocoy, read up on how to get started with your Emlid receiver and earn tokens today!
If you got any question I`d be happy to answer as best as I can.
Onocoy has also its own Discord server for their community here
No, not accuratly or visible atm. Only your own stations coordinates are visible when you log in.
Connecting to a nearby refrence station, the dropdown list show distance to the different base stations.
But if you connect to a station, the accurate position is in the RTCM header in ECEF format (ITRF20) , the same format you get with NrCan. This position is accuratly detemind by PPP and is supposed to be within 1-2cm
Okay, thanks. Hopefully someday they will list the stations in order to see if the network is actually relevant in a certain location. Perhaps they are focusing on on-boarding folks and not so much marketing the network for real NTRIP use.
Not sure i fully get what you look for in more information about relevant station. Could you elaborate?
Other then the spec and quality level, e.g not sure I fully trust a random station made by “anyone”. That is my biggest concern
With the networks I have used, you can look up the geographic locations of mount points in order to determine their baseline to, and thus their suitability for, a project site. A mount point 120 km from the site is useless. So, it’s good to know before hand what to expect. Their map is vague.
Not sure if this might help, but there is pin tool you can drop on the map and get nearby stations and distances to it.
But yeah, its in Beta so still in development.
I`m pretty sure theres some kind of a agreement.
I see institutionals operators all round the world in their map, anything els would be suicid fairly quick
I don’t use the Rock/(GEODNET) network. But I think if you add a base to the network, your choice is to get access to the entire network, or, the crypto stipend.
I think some of the institutional a free yes , but in most areas its scarce and to counter this they let random user share signals and in retur get rewared (Mining). E.g in my region there are none within 300km or so. But by sharing signals from my own RS2`s I already have up an running, this area is now covered.
It’s an interesting project, had a look myself and did setup as a test with a different caster I have built (not using Emlid to cast), however it seems that the BONO tokens they award aren’t actually worth anything right now and you have to pay to use the service (for clients)… so hopefully they aren’t just taking the money and won’t reward in the future, but at least you can use existing kit you have to send the NTRIP data to them unlike say GEOD which currently requires their costly kit of theirs to function.
True, the current token is Bono (BetaOno). But at some point they will offer a transition to the main net and Ono. Not sure its 1 to 1 but with other releases I`ve been to you have been able to use an exchange and “buy” Ono with your earned Bono token. Anyways, time will tell.
And with Emlids latest firmware update, You have dual base output. So it does not cost anything to send one stream to emlid caster and the other to the Onocoy. Doesnt get simpler than that.
