Subscriptions and Licenses
  • 14 Aug 2024
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SkyDeck offers a range of flexible and scalable pricing plans that are tailored to meet your specific requirements. You can find the available plans and offers here: https://asteria.co.in/skydeck-pricing.

To enforce these plans, your SkyDeck account is administered by a License. This License is specific to the plan that you have purchased and it determines the extent to which you can utilize the features and capabilities offered by SkyDeck.

The License tab in the Console module displays detailed information about your organisation’s current license and how it is being utilized.

In this section, you will look at:

Understanding Licenses

In this section, you will look at:

Licensed Entities

Your organization's license determines the limits for creating certain types of entities or running specific tasks within our system. Here’s how it works:

License Limits

Each type of entity or task has a set limit defined by your license. For example, your license might specify:

  • The maximum number of Drones you can add to the Fleets Module

  • Whether livestreaming is allowed

  • The number of simultaneous livestreams you can conduct

  • The total hours of livestreams you can perform per month

  • Data Storage capacity

  • Compute tokens available per month

  • The total number of users that can be onboarded

Reaching the Limit

Once the limit for a particular type of entity or task is reached, no new entities of that type can be created. For example, if your license allows for a maximum of 10 Users, you won’t be able to add an 11th User unless you:

  • Remove existing Users to free up space

  • Upgrade your license through an add-on purchase

30-Day Reset Cycle

Our licensing system operates on a 30-day reset cycle. This cycles starts when you subscription begins and at the end of each cycle, certain limitations are reset. This means that if your license allows 3 hours of livestreams per month, you'll have 3 hours available at the start of each cycle. Note that the balances do not carry over between 2 cycles.

Following entities reset at the start of each cycles:

  • Total Hours of livestreams per Month

  • Total Compute tokens available for use per Month

Tracking License Utilization

To view information about the license assigned to your organization and its utilization:

  • In the Console module, from the top menu, click License. The Manage License page is displayed with the License Utilization tab open by default.

License Utilization

The following information is displayed under this tab:

License Information

Description

License Expires in

Displays the number of days left for the license to expire along with the license period.

For more information, click here.

Token summary

Displays the number of tokens used against the maximum number of tokens available with purchased license.

To know more about tokens, click here.

Storage Utilization

Displays storage used against maximum storage available with purchased license.

Drones

Displays the number of drones used against maximum number of drones that can be added with purchased license.

Once this limit is reached, you can either update your license or delete one or more drones to add new ones.

Missions per month

Displays the number of missions scheduled per month against the number of missions that can be scheduled with the purchased license.

Live Streaming

Displays the live streaming details in terms of:

  • The maximum number of parallel streams

  • Stream hours per month available with purchased license

  • The live streaming hours are used, planned, and available.

Site Utilization

Displays information about the type and quantity of sites that have been created, in comparison to the allowed number of sites based on the purchased license.

At the time of site creation, the organisation will be permitted to create only those types of sites that are covered in the license.

User Summary

Displays the number of users that can be created and managed with the purchased.

License Expiry

SkyDeck will attempt to auto-renew once your current subscription expires. Incase  the auto-renewal payment is unsuccessful, your account license will license expires. Upon expiry, the account will be in a locked mode, only users with admin and the project manager roles will have a 30-day window (or as per the data retention agreement with the organisation) with download and read-only access to the data stored in SkyDeck. During this period, you can download all necessary data or renew its subscription for complete access to the platform.

If the license is not renewed within the initial 30-day period, the admin and the project manager will lose access to all the data and all the data is purged.

Once the data is purged, any organization-related data will be deleted from the Skydeck system including user accounts and these users will not be able to login to Skydeck any longer.

Understanding Tokens

In this section, you will look at:

Tokens

Tokens are the digital currency for running compute-heavy tasks on SkyDeck. As you utilize SkyDeck's cloud-based processing resources, you consume tokens. The more compute-intensive the task, the more tokens it consumes.

The SkyDeck license allows you to consume a specific number of tokens for each 30-day period.

These tokens refresh monthly and cannot be carried forward.

Before you can proceed with tasks that consume tokens, SkyDeck displays a pop-up informing you of the total available tokens for your current monthly cycle, quantity, pricing  and the number of tokens required to run the task.

Token Quotation

To proceed further you must ACCEPT this quotation. If sufficient tokens are not available, the task cannot be initiated. You may either wait for the 30-day period to refresh or contact the Asteria Sales team to purchase more tokens.

To know more about token and understand how the calculation is done for different tasks, click Understanding Token Calculation.

Tracking Token Utilization History

  1. To see how the tokens are used, click Token Utilization History. The token utilisation history for the last 30 days is displayed by default. You can select the time period for which you want to view the token usage history.

Token Usage History

The following information is displayed under this tab:

Token Information

Description

Date and Time

Displays the purpose for the token usage.

Event

Displays the name of the process

Quantity

Displays the total amount of data processed in the activity. (this is usually in form of pixels)

Total cost

Displays the total cost of the tokens used based on the quantity. Understanding Token Calculationto learn more

Site

Displays the name of the site for which the token was used.

User

Displays the email ID of the user that used the token.

  1. To filter this data based on the analysis conducted, click Filter and select the required option from the dropdown.

  2. Select the time period

  3. To download this data, click Download.

Download License Data


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