Device description
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Push button 1
This button allows you to carry out radio transmissions in manual mode. In the PER menu, a long press will allow you to reset the counters to zero.
Push button 2
This button allows you to manage the LCD screen.
When the LCD backlight is switched off, pressing this button will switch on the backlight.
When the LCD backlight is switched on, each press will allow you to scroll through the different screens available on this device.
On/off switch
The on/off switch allows you to switch the device on or off. Moving the switch to the right will turn the device on.
Micro-USB connector
The micro-USB connector allows you to charge the device.
Charge indicator
The charge LED shows you the device’s charge status.
The Adeunis Field Test Device also has 2 on-board sensors: a temperature sensor and an accelerometer. The accelerometer triggers a send a frame when a large vibration is detected (by shaking the device for example).
The LCD screen of the product is split on few parts:
The "Start" screen (it shows the firmware version) - Only on the powering up process
The "Join" screen - Only on the powering up and after a command mode exit
The "Uplink/downlink" screen (main screen)
The "GPS" screen
The "PER" screen (Packet Error Rate)
The "Downlink frame" screen
The following icons are present on each screen of the product:
Item
Icon
Description
GPS status
GPS has been deactivated
GPS has not been synchronized
GPS has been synchronized
Temperature
Temperature in °C
Battery
Battery level
Product in charge
Item
Icon
Description
GPS status
No icon
GPS has been deactivated
GPS status
GPS has not been synchronized
GPS status
GPS has been synchronized
Temperature
Temperature in °C
Battery
Battery level
Battery
Product in charge
The device is switched on using the on/off switch located on the underside of the device. Once it has been switched on, the device's LCD screen will light up and the start menu will be displayed. This screen shows the 2 firmware versions during few seconds.
The device is configured to join the network using Over the Air Activation (OTAA). It starts a join request session (JRx) and shows the frequency, SF and power used during this session. When the product receives a Join Accept (JA) from the network, the information is displayed on the screen and the product switch to the main screen (uplink/downlink).
The requests are identified with "JR" followed with a number showing the number of requests done. The frequency used for the request is shown after this information.
requency used for the request is shown after this information.
Item
Icon
Description
RF status
No icon
The JOIN phase is completed and the device is operational on the network
RF status
The device is in JOIN phase, and is trying to connect to the network
This screen is displayed when the device is connected to a network.
Uplink and downlink transmission information will be displayed on the LCD screen. The 1st line shows the uplink information “ULx”, with x for the number and frequency of repetition. The 2nd line shows the Spreading Factor (SF) and the power used. The 3rd line shows the downlink information “DLx”, with x for the number and frequency of the reception window. The last line shows the SF, RSSI and SNR of the acknowledgement or frame received.
Item
Icon
Description
Transmission Status
No icon
There is currently no radio transmission
Transmission Status
Manual transmission has been triggered (in progress)
Transmission Status
Periodic transmission has been triggered (in progress)
The downlink information displayed on the device relates to a downlink frame sent from a LoRaWAN network. If no information is found in this section, this does not indicate that the device is not working on the network but only that it has not received the acknowledgement from the network yet.
This screen can be accessed by briefly pressing the pushbutton 2 after the home screen. It allows to check the functioning information of the GPS module, as well as the device’s GPS positioning.
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Figure: GPS screen
Item
Icon
Description
Number of satellites
SAT xx
Indicates the number of satellites received by the device
GPS signal
Indicator showing the quality of the GPS signal:
1 bar: weak reception
2 bars: average reception
3 bars: good reception
Latitude
Display showing latitude coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds
Longitude
Display showing longitude coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds
When the GPS signal has not yet been “fixed”, no information on latitude or longitude will be displayed on the screen and the information icon will indicate that GPS has not been synchronized yet.
This menu can be accessed by briefly pressing the pushbutton 2 after the GPS menu. It allows to evaluate the quality of the radio connection between the device and the network.
The screen will display:
The number of frames sent (UL COUNT), including repetitions
The number of frames received (DL COUNT)
The Packet Error Rate (PER), as a percentage
The PER measurement is calculated by comparing the number of frames transmitted to the number of frames received: PER (%) = 100 - (( DL_COUNT / UL_COUNT) * 100).
This menu can be accessed by briefly pressing the pushbutton 2 after the PER menu. It allows to view a downlink frame sent by the network. This frame is displayed in ASCII characters. The non-printable characters are replaced by a point.
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