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Understanding Status Icons: Instrument and Controller Indicators for Efficient Operation


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Description
Status bar TPS: Specific icons
Move & Search Pilot icons, TPS
Status bar GNSS: Specific icons GNSS
Status bar: Battery and Memory icons TPS + GNSS
Map screen icons


Description

Icons provide information related to basic instrument and controller status.

Displayed icons depend on which instrument is used, and the instrument configuration.

Status bar TPS: Specific icons

Icon Description
Indicates connected instrument.
Indicates that a geometric scale factor is applied to the project.
Indicates that a height shift is applied to the project.

iCON build + iCON site Plus

Indicates that tilted plane setup is applied.

Indicates measure mode.
Indicates compensator/level status.
Indicates prism lock setting

Indicates the selected prism.

See also: Set prism type step-by-step

Indicates prism height setting. Allows you to
define two user settings for prism height.
Indicates that a PowerSearch is running.

Move & Search Pilot icons, TPS 

The Move & Search Pilot is available in the Status 2 menu.

It is only available when connected to a Robotic Total Station. It enables remote control of the vertical and horizontal rotation of the telescope on the Total Station. PowerSearch1), an intelligent prism search method, can be triggered from this control.

Icon Description
Activates a local PowerSearch. If no prism is found, a full PowerSearch occurs. 
PowerSearch left/right. Activates an intelligent prism search in the specified direction.
Switch to Joystick control.
ATR search. Instrument searches locally for a prism.
Switch to PowerSearch.
Moves instrument in specified direction. Tap key again to increase speed. Three speeds are available.
Indicates the current vertical angle of the total station. The graphic updates in real-time and helps to point the instrument in the correct direction.
Cancel current search.
To close the Move & Search Pilot, tap outside the control, in the Map screen.

Status bar GNSS: Specific icons GNSS

Icon Description

Position status

Displays the current position solution:

  • fixed
  • PPP/SBAS, or xRTK (for iCON iCG60 only)
  • float
  • navigated
  • no position

Number of visible satellites

  • Displays the number of satellites used in position calculation with the current satellite settings.

Tilt functionality of antenna

  • When tilt functionality is activated, the antenna icon displays the status of initialisation: ready or not initialised.

Radio status

  • Displays the real-time mode of the radio.

Modem status

  • Displays the real-time mode of the modem.

PPP status

Displays the PPP status:

  • converging
  • converged

RTK Bridging

  • Displays the RTK Bridging status.

SBAS status

Displays the current SBAS status:

  • searching
  • active

☞ When active, the sensor position is being calculated using SBAS corrections.

☞ When there is no icon, the sensor is either outside the supported SBAS coverage zones, or the system is waiting for SBAS corrections to be used for calculating the sensor position.


Status bar: Battery and Memory icons TPS + GNSS

Icon Description
Indicates battery status.
Indicates memory or data storage device type

Map screen icons

Icon Description
User Point
Control Point
Point being staked/being set out 
Staked/Set out and stored within tolerance
Staked/Set out and stored outside tolerance 
Delete point
Point with one or several linked images.
Reference Line
Selected Line 

Target point position.

Measured; within tolerance; outside tolerance