High-precision RTK-GNSS available for a monthly fee of several thousand yen: 'ichimill' thoroughly tested by Kōbe Seikō in drone surveying and point cloud measurement.
This article was published in Construction IT World on March 18, 2022.
SoftBank offers a high-precision positioning service called "ichimill," which provides "correction information" used in "RTK-GNSS" capable of high-precision surveying. Despite its accuracy of just a few centimeters, the usage fee is surprisingly low at several thousand yen per month. A technical sales representative from Kobe Seiko, a surveying equipment sales company based in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, thoroughly verified the capabilities of ichimill using point cloud measurements with drones and 3D laser scanners.