Globalsat DG-100 User Manual

DG-100 Data Logger

User Manual

Version 1.0

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Table of Content

1 Introduction and Features................................................3

Introduction ...................................................................3

Features.........................................................................4

2 Specifications...................................................................5

System specification ........................................................5

GPS specification.............................................................6

3 Hardware overview ..........................................................7

Hardware introduction......................................................7

Detailed Hardware Functions.............................................8

Package contents ............................................................9

4 Software Utility .............................................................. 10

Software Utility features.................................................10

Install the software Utility...............................................11

DG-100 Setup...............................................................12

5 Getting Started............................................................... 15

DG-100 Usage ..............................................................16

Transfer data to your PC.................................................16

Save data.....................................................................17

Displaying the data on map ............................................18

Export data ..................................................................21

Speed filter...................................................................22

Delete the data from memory .........................................22

Metric system or imperial system.....................................22

Using the G-mouse function............................................23

6 Troubleshooting ............................................................. 24

► Change the battery....................................................24

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1 Introduction and Features

Introduction

GlobalSat DG-100 is a GPS data logger that records track data from the received GPS
signal. With a GPS logger and antenna built in a miniature construction, DG-100
features an all-in-one, cost-effective GPS logger solution. The DG-100 records time,
date, speed, altitude and GPS location at preset intervals . Based on the SiRF star III
chipset, DG-100 offers accurate position tracking capabilities.

All recorded GPS information can be downloaded to the computer. It is a convenient,
economical way for later review of your recorded histories. Simply connect the
DG-100 to your PC or Notebook, and then download the track-log to your PC for use
with Windows based software utility. User can easily export the recorded points to
Google Earth and Google Maps.

It is ideal application in fleet management, marine navigational aids, traveling and
consumer personal use. You also can use the DG-100 as an USB GPS mouse. It is
another good feature for DG-100.

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Features

The main features of DG-100 GPS data logger

1. SiRF StarIII chipset 20 channels.

2. Allowing user to store up to 60000 points.

3. Two NiMh batteries for more than 20 hours continuous operation.

4. USB interface.

5. Power On/Off button for easy use.

6. Three preset saving intervals (Time/Distance) can be selected by slide switch.

7. Three LEDs to show the status of GPS, battery and memory.

8. MMCX port for external GPS antenna.

9. USB G-mouse function.

10. Configuration Wizard he lps you to quickly make the configuration.

11. User friendly Windows based software utility. User may use the software utility to
do the following functions:

 Upload recorded data
 Change Recording Interval
 Configuration setting
 Delete recorded data
 Exporting and mapping your recorded data:

(1) Exploring to KML (Interface with Google Earth)
(2) Show recorded data on Google Maps
(3) Text format
(4) Excel file format
(5) NMEA183

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2 Specifications

System specification

Electrical Characteristics

GPS standard

GPS Antenna Built-in patch antenna

Operation time Up to 24 hrs

Charge time 7 hrs

Battery Charging USB connector @ 350mah

POWER BUTTON

Power On/Off Press and hold for 3 second to On/Off the device.

Instant Save Press button once to save a waypoint manually when

STATUS LED’S

GPS status Flashing Green – GPS position is fixed.

Power status Solid Red – Device is power on.

Memory status Flashing Blue – Memory is 2/3 full.

TEMPERATURE

Operating -20°C ~ 50°C (-4°F ~ 122°F)

Storage -20°C ~ 35°C (-4°F ~ 95°F)

Humidity Operational up to 95% non-condensing

SLIDE SWITCH

One Slide Switch There are three customized setting of intervals.

BATTERY

Battery Type Two NiMh Rechargeable Battery

MECHANICAL

Dimension 3.15”X 2.75’’X 0.7’’

SiRF StarⅢ

device is active.

Steady Green – GPS position is not fixed.

Flashing Red – Device is in low battery power.
Solid Amber – Battery is being charged.

Solid Blue – Memory is full.

A (interval 1 Time or Distance selectable)
B (interval 2 Time or Distance selectable)
C (interval 3 Time or Distance selectable)

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GPS specification

Electrical Characteristics

GPS Chipset SiRF Star III

Frequency L1, 1575.42 MHz

C/A Code 1.023 MHz chip rate

Channels 20 channel all-in-view tracking

ACCURACY

Position Horizontal 10 meters, 2D RMS

1-5 meters 2D RMS, WAAS corrected

Velocity 0.1m/sec

Time 1 micro-second synchronized to GPS time

DATUM

Datum Default: WGS-84

ACQUISITION RATE

Hot start 1 sec., average

Warm start 38 sec., average

Cold start 42 sec., average

Reacquisition 0.1 sec. average

PROTOCOL

GPS Protocol Default: NMEA 0183 (Secondary: SiRF binary)

GPS Output

format

DYNAMIC CONDITION

Acceleration Limit Less than 4g

Altitude Limit 18,000 meters (60,000 feet) max.
Vel ocity Limit 515 meters/sec. (1,000 knots) max.

Jerk Limit 20 m/sec**3

GGA(1sec), GSA(1sec), GSV(5sec), RMC(1sec), GLL,
VTG is optional

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3 Hardware overview

Hardware introduction

Power button

GPS status LED

Memory status LDE

Battery status LDE

External

antenna

Mode switch

ort

Battery cover

USB connecto

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Detailed Hardware Functions

Power button Press and hold the power button for 3 seconds to turn

Mode Switch
GPS status LED Flashing Green – GPS position is fixed.

Memory status LED Flashing Blue – Memory is 2/3 full.
Battery status LED Solid Red – Device is power on.

External antenna Port For you to connect an external antenna.
USB connector Connect with the USB cable for data transfer or battery

Belt clip You can use the belt clip to clip DG-100 on your belt or
DC charger (optional) For you to charge the DG-100 in car or use it in car.

on/off the device.
Press power button once to save a waypoint manually

when device is active.
You can set up to 3 different interval modes for your

requirement by the software utility.

Steady Green – GPS position is not fixed.

Solid Blue – Memory is full.

Flashing Red – Device is in low battery power.
Solid Amber – Battery is being charged.

charging purpose.

backpack.

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Package contents

Check the contents of your DG-100 package. If you find any accessories are missing or
appear damaged, please contact your dealer immediately.

DG-100

Two rechargeable NiMh batteries

Belt clip

CD (user manual, software utility)

DC charger (optional)

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4 Software Utility

Software Utility features

Upload recorded data: User can upload recorded data and save it to PC.
Information Stored: 1. Only Position

Speed Filter:
Speed Filter Threshold:

Distance Filter Disable data save if data logger hasn’t moved

Saving intervals: Saving interval (Time or Distance) can be selectable.

Converting Output
format

Configuration Wizard Using Configuration Wizard to help you quick adjust

2. Position, Time, Date, Speed.

3. Position, Time, Date, Speed, Altitude.
User programmable via software utility.

Disables data save if speed falls below a threshold
value.

greater than the selected radius.

User programmable via utility.
Mode Switch to select saving interval.

(1) Exploring to KML ( Interface with Google Earth)
(2) Show recorded data on Google Maps
(3) Text format
(4) Excel file format
(5) NMEA183 file format

the settings, including Mode A, B, C.

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Install the software Utility

1. Insert the software utility CD into your CD-ROM drive, the installation program
will start automatically.

2. Click on “Install USB Driver” button to install the USB driver which is needed
when you connect DG-100 to your PC.

3. Click on “DG-100 PC Software” button and follow the instruction to install the
DG-100 software utility.

4. You can click “User Manual” button to open the user manual folder. The user
manual is in PDF format. You have to install the Acrobat PDF Reader to view the
PDF file.

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DG-100 Setup

1. Turn on the power of DG-100, and
then connect it to the USB port on
PC.

2. Check the COM port of DG-100 first.
Click [Start] > [Control Panel] >
[Performance and Maintenance]
> [System], you will see the
System Properties dialog box; click
on [Hardware] tab and then the
[Device Manager] button. Expand
the [Ports (COM & LPT)] item, and
the “Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm
Port” is the COM port of you DG-100.

3. Click from [Start] > [All

Programs] > [GlobalSat Data
Logger] > [DG-100 Utility] to

start the GlobalSat DG-100 utility.

The Configuration Wizard appears when the first
time you start the program. It helps you to quickly
setup the configuration with easy step by step.

y Step 1: Select Device Type. Please select

“Data Logger”.

y Step 2: Select COM port.

y Step 3: Select the Mode switch.

There are 3 predefined modes,
including “Hiker/Backpacker”,
“Bicyclist”, and “Motorcyclist”.

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y Step 4: Select the Metric or Imperial unit.

y Step 5:

Select the
directory for
exporting
files.

y When you finished the setup, a

successful message appears and
all settings are saved in system.

4. The DG-100 utility will import the
setting you just made from
Configuration Wizard.
If you did not use Configuration
Wizard to do the settings, please
manually select the correct COM
port and set the Baud Rate to
“115200”.
If later on you want to enable
Configuration Wizard again, please
click from menu bar, [File] >
[Quick Configuration].

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5. From menu bar, click on [Settings] > [Configuration] to open the Device
Configuration dialog box.

f Data logging format:
There are three options for you to choose those data items to be recorded.

f Disable data logging if speed falls below a threshold:

If your speed is below this specified value, DG-100 will not save the data of current
position.

f Disable data logging if distance is less than the selected radius:

If the distance between your last point and current point is less than this specified
value, DG-100 will not save the data of current position.

f Data logging interval Mode A, B, C

Setup the Mode Switch for the interval (time or distance) for recording the data.

f System information

It shows the current memory usage status.

6. When you have done the configuration setup, press OK button to save the settings

to DG-100.

7. These setting will take effect when next time you restart the device.

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5 Getting Started

Tool Bar

Configuration

Tree Bar

1 Open a training file. 8 The Configuration for GPS

2 Save training information to

a file.
3 Preference 10 Delete records.
4 Select all files. 11 Load Track Points.
5 Export training information

to the KML format.
6 Export to CSV file. 13 Display program information,

7 Export to the text file.

9 Metric system.

12 Export to Google Earth.

GPS information

Status Bar

device.

version number and copyright.

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DG-100 Usage

1. When you press the power button to turn on the DG-100, it starts to search the
GPS signal. After the GPS position is fixed, it will begin to record and save the
position data.

2. You can select the Mode Switch for the different recording interval as you need.

3. If you want to stop recording, just press the power button to turn it off.

4. When the battery power is exhausted, it wi ll shut down automatically.

Note: When you connect DG-100 to your PC, DG-100 will enter the “data transfer

mode”, it can not record the data in this mode. After you disconnect it from
PC, please remember to power off and restart DG-100 to make it return to
Data Logger mode.

Transfer data to your PC

1. Turn on the power of

DG-100, and then connect it
to the USB port on PC. Start
the software utility. Select
the correct COM port and set
the Baud Rate to “115200”.
From menu bar, click on
[TrackRecord] > [Load
Track Points]. Select the
data item which you want to
load and click on “Load”
button.

2. The data is loaded in the Tree Bar area, and the entire track points will be sorted

by time order displaying on the right bottom window.

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3. Select the data you want from Tree Bar area. From menu bar click [Map] >

[View Points]; the data you select will be combined and displayed in details in
a new window or the right side.
(You can click on [File] > [Select All Files] to automatically select all data
record in Tree Bar, or click on [File] > [Select All Files] again to deselect all.)

Save data

From menu bar click on [File] > [Save] to save the data to a DataLogger (*.gsd)
format. This will save all data items in Tree Bar no ma tter they are selected or not. You
can open the saved gsd file by [File] > [Open].

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Displaying the data on map

1. Display the track points on Google Earth:
You can display all the data from “active window” on Google Earth. Just click [Map]
> [Google Earth] from the menu bar.

Check the root record to
display all information.

Check “TrackPoints” to
display the route by red line.

Check any point which you want to display
its position and information in map.

1.1 By default, it only shows the track points on the map.

1.2 You can select from [File] > [Preference],
and check the “Show Speed/Time in Google
Earth” to have the Speed and Time info of the
points shown on the map.

1.3 To display the route on Google Earth, you must install Google Earth and the
internet connection is also needed. For more information, please visit
http://earth.google.com/

.

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2. Display the track points on Google Maps:
You can display all the data from “active window” on Google Maps. Just click [Map]
> [Show Track Points in Google Maps] from the menu bar. To display the
track points on Google Maps, your PC must have the internet connection enabled.

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3. Display one track point on Google Maps:
You can double click on any track point to display its position on Google Maps.

Double click on any track
point to display its position
on Google Maps window.

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Export data

Inactive window

Active window

1. With the export function, you can export the data in “active window” to the
following three kinds of data format.

2. Click [File] > [Export] > [KML File] to export the data to the Google Earth KML
file format.

3. Click [File] > [Export] > [CSV File] to export the data to the Excel file format.

4. Click [File] > [Export] > [TXT File] to export the data to the TXT file format.

5. Click [File] > [Export] > [NMEA183 Format] to export the data to the
NMEA183 text file format.

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Speed filter

The Speed filter function allows you to display the data which match the criteria. Select
the range criteria and input speed value (integer), then click “Refresh” button.

Delete the data from memory

If you have already saved your data to PC, then you can click on [TrackRecord] >
[Delete All] to delete all data from the DG-100 memory.

Metric system or imperial system

You can click on [Settings] > [Metric System] to check this item for displaying the
distance by “meters” and speed by “km/hour”, or uncheck it for displaying the
distance by “feet” and speed by “mile/hour”.

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Using the G-mouse function

You can connect the DG-100 to your Notebook and use it as a GPS mouse.

1. Connect DG-100 to your Notebook.

2. Turn on the DG-100.

3. Start the DG-100 software utility.

4. Select the correct COM port and set Baud Rate to 115200.

5. Click the “Start GMouse mode” button. This would start DG-100 G-mouse
function. Now you can close the DG-100 software utility.

6. Start your Navigation software and set the COM port and Baud Rate if necessary.
The G-mouse is ready for your use.

7. If you want to end the G-mouse mode, and return to the data logger mode, you
must turn off the DG-100 and turn on it again.

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6 Troubleshooting

► Change the battery

1. Press downward to open the battery cover.

2. If there are rechargeable batteries in the DG-100, then you can connect the
device to PC’s USB port for battery charging or for data downloading.

3. The USB port of computer will provide power to DG-100 via the USB cable when
you make the connection. If you use the non-rechargeable battery, please
remove it to avoid any hazard.

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FCC Notices

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two

conditions:

(1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and

(2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause

undesired operation.

FCC RF Exposure requirements:

This device and its antenna(s) must not be co-located or operation in conjunction with any other

antenna or transmitter.

NOTE: THE MANUFACTURER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RADIO OR TV

INTERFERENCE CAUSED BY UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATIONS TO THIS EQUIPMENT.

SUCH MODIFICATIONS COULD VOID THE USER’S AUTHORITY TO OPERATE THE

EQUIPMENT.