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Wireless Connectivity

PAN9028

Wi-Fi Dual Band 2.4 GHz/5 GHz and Bluetooth

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Module

Quick Start Guide

Rev. 1.0

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Summary of Contents for 88W8987

Page 1: ...Wireless Connectivity PAN9028 Wi Fi Dual Band 2 4 GHz 5 GHz and Bluetooth Module Quick Start Guide Rev 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...construed as guaranteeing specific functionality of the product as described or suitable for a particular application Any provided source code shall not be used or incorporated into any products or systems whose manufacture use or sale is prohibited under any applicable laws or regulations Any outlined or referenced source code within this document is provided on an as is basis without any right t...

Page 3: ...g to the Access Point 11 4 3 Remote Controlling PAN9028 IMX 12 4 4 Exploring Wi Fi Features 12 4 5 Exploring Bluetooth Features 16 5 Full Usage 21 5 1 Setup Full 21 5 2 Login 22 5 3 Configuring Audio 23 5 4 Configuring Wi Fi 24 5 5 Accessing Network 24 5 6 Using Wi Fi Location Demo 25 5 7 Remote Access 28 6 Recreating SD Card Image 29 6 1 Using Windows 29 6 2 Using Linux 29 7 Troubleshooting 31 7 ...

Page 4: ...n Note Indicates important information for the proper use of the product Non observance can lead to errors Attention Indicates important notes that if not observed can put the product s functionality at risk Tip Indicates useful information designed to facilitate working with the software chapter number chapter title Cross reference Indicates cross references within the document Example Descriptio...

Page 5: ...ges and information displayed on the screen or to be selected or entered by the user Examples pan1760 c contains the actual module initialization Enter the value Product 123 This font Systemoutput Indicates messages and information displayed on the screen Example The message Failed to save your data is displayed Key Key Indicates a key on the keyboard Example Press F10 1 4 Related Documents For re...

Page 6: ...The Yocto Project Linux based environment is available to showcase the easy integration into a customer specific build environment This environment is described in the Development Guide which is available separately Both environments provide access to the Wi Fi and Bluetooth features of the PAN9028 by supplying a web server running on a Wi Fi access point After a connection to that access point ha...

Page 7: ... Guide Rev 1 0 Page 7 of 34 Alternatively the PAN9028 IMX may become a Bluetooth Low Energy proximity beacon using the AltBeacon Protocol which may be used for indoor navigation All Bluetooth use cases have been implemented using Blue SDK from OpenSynergy ...

Page 8: ... interface with Ubuntu Linux USB memory stick transfer data to and from the PAN9028 MSD Headphones with 3 5 mm jack listen to Bluetooth audio Some Wi Fi capable device like a mobile phone or a tablet 3 1 Setup Boot Card The Wandboard consists of two separate parts the Baseboard that contains all the connectors and the system on module that contains the i MX6 processor The system on module is locat...

Page 9: ...te Control Certain functions of the PAN9028 IMX can be remote controlled via Wi Fi A Wi Fi capable device for controlling is needed Disabling a Mobile Data Plan If a mobile device is used that has a SIM card which supports a mobile data plan for accessing the internet it is recommended to switch off the mobile data plan while working with the PAN9028 IMX The Wi Fi access point provided by the PAN9...

Page 10: ... need any additional peripherals 4 1 Setup Basic The following components are needed Wandboard with µSD card with Ubuntu Linux image PAN9028 MSD with µSD card form factor Headphones with 3 5 mm jack Power supply 1 Insert the PAN9028 MSD into the µSD card slot of the Baseboard 1 2 Insert the headphones with 3 5 mm jack into the green audio socket 2 3 Insert the power supply 3 The system will boot u...

Page 11: ...iguration settings of the device and enable Wi Fi 2 Press PAN9028_uAP0 1 to connect to this access point which is provided by the PAN9028 It will be found automatically The connection will be established and is shown as Connected no Internet At this point it is possible to access the PAN9028 but not to use any features that required internet access ...

Page 12: ...9028 IMX a web server is running which provides the user interface for remote controlling the system 1 Open the web browser 2 Navigate to the address 192 168 33 1 1 to access 4 4 Exploring Wi Fi Features 4 4 1 Connecting to the Internet The Wi Fi features of the PAN9028 can be controlled using the section Station 1 on the web page ...

Page 13: ...t itself The user interface is intuitive and will guide through the possible use cases 1 Press Refresh 1 to update the list of found access points 2 Select the Network SSID 2 of the access point that should be used 3 Enter the matching network password 3 4 Press Create Connection 4 to create the connection The PAN9028 will connect to it This takes approximately a couple of seconds ...

Page 14: ...easurements This is done by having a Wi Fi station device initiate the measurement by sending a FTM request to an access point which acts as a responder One way of testing those RTT measurements is using the WifiRttScan application from Google on an Android smartphone which will be described in this section The following requirement must be met The application WifiRttScan is installed on a smartph...

Page 15: ...15 of 34 Measuring RTT 1 Enable Wi Fi and location services on the smartphone used for the RTT measurement 2 Open the application WifiRttScan 3 Press Scan WiFi 1 The application will scan for all access points supporting FTM and list them 4 Select the access point PAN9028_uAP0 1 ...

Page 16: ...sic Usage Quick Start Guide Rev 1 0 Page 16 of 34 The application displays the measured RTT range in meters 1 4 5 Exploring Bluetooth Features 1 Use the section Bluetooth 1 on the web page to control the Bluetooth features of the PAN9028 ...

Page 17: ... 4 5 1 Bluetooth Low Energy AltBeacon The application Locate Beacon from Radius Networks Inc can be used to discover the PAN9028 It can be downloaded from the Google Play Store for Android and the Apple App Store for iOS Starting AltBeacon 1 Press Beacon application 1 to start the application Bluetooth Low Energy AltBeacon The device advertises according to the AltBeacon specification ...

Page 18: ...e Beacon application is calculated based on the received signal strength indicator RSSI and other implementation specific variables and therefore is not accurate 4 5 2 Bluetooth Basic Rate A2DP Audio Sink Starting A2DP 1 Press A2DP application 1 to start the Bluetooth Basic Rate A2DP audio sink application The device will be available as an A2DP audio sink 2 Navigate to the Bluetooth settings of t...

Page 19: ... will be established and is shown as Connected 1 This takes approximately a couple of seconds Now any audio that is played back on the Android device will be routed to the PAN9028 instead and output on the audio jack of the PAN9028 IMX Depending on the connected headphones the volume might need to be adjusted to a different level For instructions on how to control the volume please refer to 5 3 Co...

Page 20: ...io player a video stream a web radio or video from the internet The sound will be outputted when some headphones are connected to the green audio jack of the Wandboard If the Android device is still connected to the access point of the PAN9028 make sure that the PAN9028 itself is connected to an access point with internet access otherwise no playback from the internet is possible ...

Page 21: ...u system The same functionality as in the basic setup is available 5 1 Setup Full The following components are needed Wandboard with µSD card with Ubuntu Linux image PAN9028 MSD with µSD card form factor USB hub USB keyboard USB mouse Serial port cable Headphones with 3 5 mm jack HDMI cable and matching monitor or TV set Power supply 1 Insert the PAN9028 MSD into the µSD card slot of the Baseboard...

Page 22: ...pproximately one minute The boot process of the system is displayed on the attached monitor If no output can be seen on the attached monitor please reselect the signal source to force the monitor to update the signal sources When the boot process is finished the Ubuntu desktop will be displayed 5 2 Login 5 2 Login Once the operating system has finished booting you will be automatically logged in a...

Page 23: ... 1 0 Page 23 of 34 5 3 Configuring Audio The audio configuration can be configured using the tool PulseAudio Volume Control 1 In the main menu 1 select Multimedia 2 PulseAudio Volume Control 3 2 Control the volume in the section imx6 wandboard sgtl5000 Analog Stereo 1 ...

Page 24: ...ection 2 The result of any network operation will be shown in a pop up message in the upper right corner When the Wi Fi settings are manipulated both through the web interface and the Network Manager applet the state displayed on either side may be incorrect It may be necessary to reload the page on the web 5 5 Accessing Network The following requirement must be met Wi Fi is configured 5 4 Configu...

Page 25: ...surement FTM responder the PAN9028 IMX can also be used as the initiator itself and make Round Trip Time RTT measurements To demonstrate this feature the system contains the WiFi Location Demo This section describes how to start and use the WiFi Location Demo The following requirement must be met A Wi Fi access point supporting FTM is available and running A second PAN9028 IMX can be used as the r...

Page 26: ...ld be used as the responder Type in the according index 2 and press Enter The application displays four options 3 Type in 1 and press Enter to make a RTT measurement with the selected access point The application will be displayed the result of a single RTT measurement At this point an action can be chosen 4 Type in 1 to restart the measurement 2 to scan for other access points 3 to quit the appli...

Page 27: ...nother single measurement 1 to let it run in a loop 7 Press Enter to confirm If 1 run in loop was chosen The application displays the recorded data points indefinitely 8 Type in q and press Enter to exit the application If the demo application fails to reestablish the original state of the networking setup after it has exiting 1 Power cycling the PAN9028 IMX 2 Reattaching the PAN9028 MSD ...

Page 28: ...he PAN9028 IMX is connected to a network over Ethernet It has a known IP address as signed that is in the same address range as the host machine used for the remote access The PAN9028 IMX is powered up and has finished booting 1 Open the application Remote Desktop Connection 2 Enter the IP address of the PAN9028 IMX 1 and click Connect 2 The application starts to establish a RDP connection to the ...

Page 29: ...se contact your local Panasonic sales representative to obtain the SD card image For using Windows please refer to 6 1 Using Windows For using Linux please refer to 6 2 Using Linux 6 1 Using Windows Using Windows the Win32 Disk Imager or a similar tool to write the SD card image to a SD card can be used 1 Select the image file 1 2 Select a destination 2 3 Click Write Schreiben 3 to write the SD ca...

Page 30: ...e name of the SD card 4 Check the column SIZE 2 to find the SD card 5 Remember the name from the column NAME 3 6 Enter the following code into the command dd to write the SD card image to the desired target drive sudo dd if ubuntu wandboard_vX_Y img of dev sdb bs 1M sudo is used because usually only the root user can write to device files like dev sdb ...

Page 31: ...ze the existing filesystem on that partition resize2fs dev mmcblk2p1 5 Reboot the system for a clean start reboot 7 2 Fixing a Non Booting System The full setup contains a fully running Ubuntu system which needs to be properly powered down before the system can be shut off Do not cut off the power supply before the PAN9028 IMX was properly shut down It can lead to a filesystem corruption which mig...

Page 32: ... 7 Troubleshooting Quick Start Guide Rev 1 0 Page 32 of 34 7 3 Updating System The system is a regular Ubuntu Linux system Therefor the system level tools like apt get are available to update the system or install additional packages ...

Page 33: ...xpected to result in a significant personal injury to the user or as a critical component in any life support device or system whose failure to perform can be reasonably expected to cause the failure of the life support device or system or to affect its safety or effectiveness Panasonic customers using or selling these products for use in such applications do so at their own risk and agree to full...

Page 34: ...rth America visit the Panasonic website Sales Support to find assistance near you at https na industrial panasonic com distributors Please visit the Panasonic Wireless Technical Forum to submit a question at https forum na industrial panasonic com 9 2 Product Information Please refer to the Panasonic Wireless Connectivity website for further information on our products and related documents For co...

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