How Airace One Simplifies GPS Tracking and Survey Analysis for Professionals

What is Airace One?

Airace One is the Android field app that pairs with Airace RTK receivers (and most third-party RTK receivers) over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. It handles point capture, stake-out, COGO, and basic GIS work, then exports the result as CSV, DXF, KML, or SHP. Everything works offline. Subscriptions are ₹199/year.

Why use Airace One?

Without a controller app, an RTK receiver is a black box that streams NMEA. The app gives you the survey workflow on the rover pole: a job, a coordinate system, real-time fix status, and the ability to capture, label, and stake points. It removes paper field-books and the manual transcription step that introduces most survey errors.

Airace One pairs with your existing receiver in under a minute, so adopting it doesn't disrupt the way your team already works.

Is it mandatory to subscribe to the Airace One mobile application if you purchase the RTK receiver?

No. The receiver works fine on its own with any NTRIP-capable controller app. But the workflows that most surveyors actually want, including job management, stake-out, coded point capture, NTRIP, RTCM input, and clean exports, all live in the app. Without it you'll typically end up writing point coordinates into another tool by hand.

The first 30 days of Airace One are free with every Airace receiver. After that it is ₹199/year per device.

How is the RTK receiver connected with the Airace One mobile App?

The RTK receiver connects to Airace One over Bluetooth (or Wi-Fi for the Navon's web UI). Once paired, the receiver streams its position and fix status to the app, and the app sends back configuration changes, RTCM corrections from NTRIP, and the active job's coordinate system.

The pairing is one tap. The app remembers receivers it has seen before, so on subsequent days you just turn the rover on.

Typical RTK survey workflow with the app

1. Increased productivity: A coded job template, a stake-out list, and live tilt-corrected point capture replaces the paper field-book.
2. Centimetre accuracy: With NTRIP corrections from Survey of India CORS or your own base, fix accuracy is 8 mm + 1 ppm horizontal.
3. Cleaner data: Direct exports to CSV, DXF, KML, and SHP, no manual transcription.
4. Field collaboration: Jobs can be shared between crew controllers, so multiple rovers work on the same survey without overlap.

How does the Airace mobile application help industries with GPS Mapping & Surveys?

Airace One helps various industries with its GPS mapping and survey capabilities.

1. Land surveying: Cadastral boundary mapping, area calculation, and topographic surveys. Stake-out lists are imported from CAD and worked through point-by-point.
2. Construction layout: Stake foundation corners, road centrelines, and utility runs from a DXF drawing. The receiver's tilt support saves time around walls and pillars.
3. Government and PMGSY/Jal Jeevan work: Pre-loaded coordinate systems for Indian grids and direct NTRIP integration with Survey of India CORS keep the workflow inside one app.
4. GPS mapping and asset capture: Photos, attributes, and coordinates against the same point, exported to GIS as a SHP layer.
5. Topographic survey: Capture elevations on a grid or along break-lines, then export to DXF for contour generation in Geo Studio or any standard CAD tool.

Features of Airace One

1. Universal RTK GNSS support: Pairs over Bluetooth with Airace receivers and most third-party RTK rovers that output standard NMEA/RTCM.
2. NTRIP client: Connects to any NTRIP caster (including Survey of India CORS) for real-time corrections over 4G.
3. Coordinate systems: WGS84, UTM, and Indian grid systems out of the box. Custom local grids can be added per job.
4. Survey tools: Point capture, stake-out (point, line, area), distance and area measurement, and basic COGO.
5. GIS tools: Map display, feature creation, and attribute data attached to points and lines.
6. Geotagged photos: Take a photo against a captured point and store it inside the job.
7. Offline maps: Download base maps before heading out so the app stays usable on no-signal sites.
8. Exports: CSV, DXF, KML, and SHP. Reports can be generated as PDF directly inside the app.
9. Languages: Available in seven Indian languages.

Benefits

1. Faster point capture: Tilt support means crews don't have to plumb the pole on every shot. In open ground we see 25 to 40% more points per day.
2. Centimetre accuracy: 8 mm + 1 ppm horizontal in RTK fix.
3. Cleaner data: Coded points and direct exports remove the manual transcription step that produces most survey errors.
4. Lower training overhead: Indian-language UI and a small set of well-named tools means a new field assistant can be productive in a day.

Conclusion

Airace One is the controller app the receiver was designed to ship with. If you've bought an Airace rover, install it, pair the receiver, and start a job. If you're using a third-party receiver, give the 30-day trial a run before deciding.