RTK cellular hotspot data consumption for NYSNet CORS?

kjypls, post: 348522, member: 9749 wrote: I'm looking at a hotspot device to use with the NYSNet CORS network.

The NYSNet site says "an unlimited data plan is usually recommended" but I'm just like :-/

Does anyone have a grasp on how many GB of data could maybe be consumed during an hour of RTK? I'm thinking probably not that much, and, I'd be a light user. My guess is that a couple few weekend RTK sessions a month and 5gb should be plenty. Thoughts?

I'm thinking a few weekend sessions is 1 GB at most.

I use that service and it seems like the data consumption is pretty low. I don't have any actual figures for you, though. I feel like I would have a hard time using 1 GB on it in a month's time, also.

I've used 5 GB in a year on my Mifi and that's using RTK Network at least 3 days a week.

Data streams for GPS is extremely low, the heavy highway firm I'm with has all of the gps controlled dozers and our rovers with mifi jetpacks on Verizon telemetry plans. Very cheap because it uses little data. Just don't go web browsing on it, then the data use explodes.

Great, thanks guys

For a CMR+ connection, with GLONASS here are some typical numbers:

A typical CMR+ data stream is 18,000 bytes per minute:
[INDENT=1] [/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]300 bytes per second
1,080,000 bytes per hour
8,640,000 bytes per 8 hour day
181,440,000 bytes per month assuming 21-days of 8-hours each[/INDENT]

Worst Case Scenario: If a user were to leave a rover connected continuously (24-hours per day) for 1-month they would consume 803,520,000 bytes per month.

RTCM 3.x streams are about the same data rate as CMR+ streams.

Thus, when provisioning SIM cards, one can be confident that at most 1 Gigabyte of data / month will be consumed. And typical use can be less than 100 meg, even with 8-hour work days.