The courier is the bottleneck
Drone, LiDAR and photogrammetry projects produce point clouds, raw captures and orthomosaic tiles by the hundred gigabytes per day. Posting a drive works until it is lost, delayed or arrives corrupt, and browser uploads over a site connection tend to fail halfway through and start again.
Boita’s accelerated transfer engine runs over UDP with its own rate control, so it holds your line rate regardless of the distance to the server. In the desktop app, transfers resume by themselves from where they stopped after a network drop, sleep or reboot, and completed files are never re-sent. From a browser or the phone app, an interrupted transfer starts again, so run field uploads from the desktop app.
Point a watch folder at the capture drive
Install the desktop app on the field laptop and point a watch folder at the folder where captures are offloaded. New files upload as they appear, once they have stopped changing, and the queue keeps running from the menu bar or tray with the window closed. State is kept locally, so a restart does not re-upload the week.
Allowed hours per watch folder and a workspace bandwidth window, enforced by the transfer server, let the site connection be used only after hours. Include and exclude patterns are coming.
A 400 GB week of captures on Pro, over a 100 Mbps site line, takes about nine hours, line-limited, which is an overnight window. Back at the office on a 1 Gbps line the same 400 GB takes about two hours, plan-limited at 450 Mbps. The calculator on the home page models your own line and distance.
Share results with clients who have no account
Processed orthomosaics and models go out as share links with an expiry, an optional password and a download limit. Clients open a page, see the files and sizes, and download; no account or plan of their own. Receiving raw data from a subcontractor works the same way in reverse through an upload portal that drops each delivery into its own inbox folder.
Intact, and you can check
Every file shows the checksum the server recorded when it arrived, so a corrupt tile is caught at ingest rather than in the deliverable. Numbered tile sets show as one row with a gap warning. Storage usage is shown on every page with an email before you reach your quota, and there are no per-GB transfer fees, so a heavy capture month does not produce a surprise bill.
Projects that must be kept but rarely opened can move to the archive tier with a manifest and restore on demand (Scale and above).
- Line-rate transfers from field connections, resumable in the desktop app
- Watch folders on the offload laptop; allowed hours and bandwidth windows
- Share links and upload portals with no accounts for the other side
- Checksums on every file; storage usage always visible
- Flat plans, no per-GB fees