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Please find below some questions that are frequently ask by our customers regarding Qinertia Post Processing Software.
General
Which operating systems are supported?
Qinertia is available on Windows 10 or higher and Linux x64 operating systems. If you are interested in a Mac OS X version, please contact us at support@sbg-systems.com.
Is it possible to integrate Qinertia with my software?
Qinertia provides a fully documented and easy to use Command Line Interface to create advanced automated workflows integrations.
Can I execute Qinertia in a server environment?
Absolutely, we offer specific Qinertia versions as Docker Images that doesn't require a graphical stack to run and perfectly fitted for server environments.
Is Qinertia available as a cloud based processing?
Yes, Qinertia is available as Cloud API running an Amazon AWS servers. You can offer cloud based processing automated workflow very easily. Please check out the dedicated Qinertia Cloud API page to get more details.
Can I use Qinertia with no internet connection?
Yes, we have designed Qinertia and the licensing system to fully support offline modes. Please read the dedicated how-to-article to get more details.
Which ports need to be open for Qinertia to function properly under IT restrictions?
The HTTPS port 443 must be open for all *.sbg-systems.com domains:
https://account.sbg-systems.com
https://license-api.sbg-systems.com
https://gnss-api.sbg-systems.com
https://my-api.sbg-systems.com
https://update.sbg-systems.com
License Management
How can I buy a Qinertia license?
You can buy a Qinertia license online from MySBG portal. You can also contact our sales team or distributors https://www.sbg-systems.com/contact/
What type of licenses are available?
Qinertia offers both perpetual and subscription based license models. You can buy online a subscription for 1 or 12 months and you get access to all online services (PPP/CORS etc) as well as software updates.
Perpetual licenses gives you a life time access to a specific Qinertia version unless you also buy a maintenance on a yearly basis to access online services and software updates.
What is a floating license?
Qinertia offers floating licenses with a number of seats. It means the license is not bound to a computer and can be easily shared across several computers. Each time a user log into the software a seat is consumed and each time the software is close the seat is given back.
If your license have 3 seats, it means you can have 3 concurrent users using Qinertia at the same time.
Does Qinertia need an USB dongle?
No, Qinertia uses a modern licensing system that support both online and offline modes and doesn't require any specific hardware to work.
How can I activate my Qinertia license?
If you have ordered a license (perpetual or subscription) from our sales team or our distributor network, you should receive only an activation code. Before you can use Qinertia, you should first activate your license from MySBG portal.
If you have ordered a subscription online, the license is automatically activated and you can start using Qinertia right away.
When my license term countdown starts?
If you have ordered a subscription online, you license is activated right away as well as the the license term countdown.
If you have ordered a license (perpetual or subscription) from our sales team or our distributor network, you should receive only an activation code. The license term countdown will only start once you have activated your license using this code on MySBG portal.
How can I check if my Qinertia license is about to expire?
You can check at any time your license status from MySBG portal. If you are an organization admin, you should also receive emails when a license is about to expire.
How can I renew my Qinertia license?
If you have bought your subscription from MySBG portal it should renew automatically. If you have stopped your license renewal you can easily restart it from this platform.
If you have a perpetual license, you can extend your maintenance while valid. The extension is appended at the end of your current maintenance plan. After expiration, the Maintenance Plan can be renewed at anytime. The renewed Maintenance Plan starts on purchase day and is more expensive than a maintenance extension.
Please contact your sales representative or distributor to get more information and a formal offer.
How can I cancel my Qinertia subscription?
If you have bought your Qinertia subscription online from MySBG, simply click on your license and hit the cancel button to stop further subscription renewals.
If you have bought your license from a distributor or from standard sales order workflows, your subscription will not renew automatically.
Third Party INS
Can I process an INS not manufactured by SBG Systems
Qinertia can process any INS as soon as you have IMU data correctly time stamped to UTC or GPS time as well as RAW GNSS data and/or PVT (Position Velocity) data.
Qinertia natively support some third party INS such as Novatel SPAN while for other manufactures a conversion step is necessary to Qinertia generic file format.
Most of the time, you can achieve this conversion using the tools provided by your INS manufacturer but for some INS you will have to write your own conversion tool.
For more information, please read the documentation related to Project Creation and Input formats
How can I process Applanix Pos data
Qinertia can support some Applanix POS data.
Get in contact with us for more details.
How can I process Novatel SPAN data
Qinertia offers a native support for Novatel SPAN data so you just have to drag and drop the binary SPAN files to Qinertia to create a new projet.
For more information, please read the documentation related to Project Creation and Novatel input file format.
How can I process Ixblue INS data
Ixblue INS requires a specific software option to allow full IMU data accuracy output. Moreover, Ixblue INS IMU file format is not made available to the public.
As a result, Qinertia can't offer a native support for Ixblue INS. However, you can use Ixblue tools to export and convert IMU data to Qinertia generic text files.
This has already been done by several customers so feel free to contact SBG Systems support@sbg-systems.com
For more information, please read the documentation related to Project Creation and Input formats.
How can I process Septentrio INS data
Qinertia offers a native support for Septentrio INS data so you just have to drag and drop the binary files to Qinertia to create a new project.
For more information, please read the documentation related to Project Creation and Septentrio input file format.
GNSS only processing
Which GNSS manufacturers are supported
Qinertia can be used with any GNSS that is able to output RAW GNSS observable and have at least L1/L2 capabilities.
You can directly drag and drop to Qinertia RINEX v2 or v3 files to create a new GNSS only project.
Qinertia also offers a native support for Septentrio, Novatel, Trimble and Ublox GNSS receivers so you don't even need to convert the data to RINEX.
Can I process GNSS data at 100 Hz
Qinertia support any GNSS data rate from 1 Hz to 100 Hz so yes, you can use Qinertia to do GNSS only processing at high rates. However, keep in mind that processing RAW GNSS data at 100 Hz consume a lot of RAM and takes much more processing time than processing equivalent INS data.
SBG Systems always recommend using INS rather than GNSS only if you would like high frequency data.
Does Qinertia support GNSS Event Markers
If your GNSS manufacturer is directly supported by Qinertia, event markers will be automatically read when you import GNSS data to Qinertia. Event markers are used to export post processed Position, Velocity and Time data on each received event such as a camera shutter trigger. It's useful for GNSS only photogrammetry jobs for instance even if SBG Systems strongly recommend using an INS for this type of acquisitions.
If your GNSS is not natively supported by Qinertia and thus you have to use RINEX files, Qinertia will not be able to extract event markers automatically and you will have to import them manually using generic ASCII file format.
For more information, please read the documentation related to Input formats
Photogrammetry
Which photogrammetry software are supported?
SBG Systems has tested Qinertia with Pix4D, Agisoft Metashape and Trimble Inpho UAS Master. However, Qinertia can update JPEG files with precise position and orientation data and also export the same information as CSV like text files. Qinertia should thus be able to work with any serious photogrammetry software package;
Can I process my DJI data
Qinertia has a dedicated support for DJI UAV that are RTK capable. Simply drag & drop the DJI files and pictures and Qinertia handle the rest. Please read the Photogrammetry section to get more information.