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Telegesis™

TG-RF-PM-501 ZigBee RangeFinder

ZigBee RangeFinder

Product Manual 0501 r8

ZigBee RangeFinder

Telegesis ZigBee RangeFinder

Product Manual

Rev: 8

Date: Sept 2014

Guide for firmware versions: R311 and R211

Patent pending: GB1222898.7

Telegesis™ is a trademark of Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Summary of Contents for TG-RF-PM-501

Page 1: ...eFinder Product Manual 0501 r8 2016 Silicon Labs ZigBee RangeFinder Telegesis ZigBee RangeFinder Product Manual Rev 8 Date Sept 2014 Guide for firmware versions R311 and R211 Patent pending GB1222898 7 Telegesis is a trademark of Silicon Laboratories Inc ...

Page 2: ...minal Unit 7 Layout 7 Functionality 9 Start up 10 Menu Screens 11 Normal Test Modes 12 Continuous Test Modes 16 Device Configurations 23 Firmware Upgrades 27 Data Logging 30 Device Info 33 Adjust Contrast 33 PAN Scan 34 Power 36 Batteries 36 Charging 36 Power Saving 36 Satellite Unit 37 Layout 37 Functionality 38 Buttons 38 LEDs 39 Power 39 Batteries 39 Power Consumption 39 Usage 39 System Topolog...

Page 3: ...ZigBee RangeFinder 2016 Silicon Labs 3 Telegesis ZigBee RangeFinder Interpreting Test Results 42 RSSI Calculation 42 Packet Error Rate 42 Pass Fail Criteria 42 ...

Page 4: ...ne Hop Test Result Screens 21 Figure 17 Configurations Screen 24 Figure 18 Advanced Configurations Screen 25 Figure 19 Configurations Parameter Limits 26 Figure 20 Firmware Upgrade Screens 27 Figure 21 HHT Firmware Upgrade 27 Figure 22 HHT Firmware upgrade options 28 Figure 23 SAT Firmware Options 29 Figure 24 Data Logger Screen 30 Figure 25 Device Information Screen 33 Figure 26 Adjust Contrast S...

Page 5: ...ackage contains the following items Figure 1 Package Contents a 1x Quick Start Guide b 4x 1 5V AA Alkaline Batteries c 2x Satellite Units SAT100 d 1x USB A to USB Micro Cable e 1x Handheld Terminal ZHT100 f 2x 1 2V AA 2000mA Rechargeable Batteries g 3x 2 4GHz Half wave Antennas a b c d e f g ...

Page 6: ... 2V 2000mAH NiMH Rechargeable Charging 5Volts 300mA via USB Micro Connector Operating Temperature 0 to 50C Humidity 95 TH Non condensing IP Rating IP54 subject to testing Satellite SAT x Model Number SAT100 RF Interface 2 4GHz IEEE802 15 4 RF Output Power 9dBm to 8dBm Standard Version 20 19 18 16 15 13 10 7 1dBm Long Range Version Antenna Half wave Dipole Antenna 2dBi Gain Battery 2x 1 5V AA Alkal...

Page 7: ...egesis ZigBee RangeFinder Handheld Terminal Unit Layout Figure 2 Handheld Terminal Front Handheld Terminal Front a Product Model Number b LCD Display c Escape Back Key d Enter Activate Key e Power On Off Key f USB B Micro Connector f a b d c e ...

Page 8: ...is ZigBee RangeFinder Figure 3 Handheld Terminal Back Handheld Terminal Back a SMA Connector for Antenna b Product Label c 2x Screw for Battery Compartment d Battery Compartment e Dummy Battery non removable f 2x Rechargeable Batteries a b d c f e ...

Page 9: ...s of various options and output screens one can use on the HHT Figure 4 Product Label Handheld Terminal Label a Product name ZigBee RangeFinder and product model number ZHT100 b Serial number of the product c Operating parameters of the product d Maximum RF Transmit power 8dBm for standard version 20dBm forLong Range version e Warning f Barcode with following content Model L Serial e g ZHT100 L900...

Page 10: ... numbers of device and the firmware version of HHT This screen is displayed upon power up and by Device Info option on Menu screen 3 Figure 5 Start up Screen RANGE FINDER Press Any Key a HHT 2 4GHz Zigbee Network Surveyor IHD xxx xxx VER GAS xxx xxx c d b f e a Product Name b Space for OEM Label c Serial Number of the HHT d Serial Number of SAT A set to emulate IHD e Serial Number of SAT B set to ...

Page 11: ... to enter the selected menu item The battery symbol shows the current battery status Figure 6 Start up Screen a Menu Items b Single SAT Dual SAT option c Battery status d Battery charging a a b c Pre Test Test A Test B Energy Scan Config IG x x x Menu Screen 1 d Tx Tone Ch Ping Ch E Scan FW Upgrades Data Logger x x x Menu Screen 2 One Hop Test Device Info x x x Menu Screen 3 Adjust Contrast ...

Page 12: ...e Test is indicated by a short beep from the built in buzzer To return to the main menu from the Pre Test Screen please press a Label of the first Satellite unit IHD b Serial number of Satellite Labelled IHD c Status of Pre Test OK for Success and NOK for Failure indicated by Red backlight d Battery status of the IHD unit in percentage from 0 to 100 e RSSI of the received data during Pre Test f HH...

Page 13: ... meter and move away from the meter housing if necessary This timer is configurable in the Configuration Menu To perform tests A or B navigate to the menu item on Menu Screen 1 using and keys and press button for the test start screen to appear Continuous and Figure 8 Test Start Screen Once the countdown has elapsed the test starts and the test results are displayed for each channel for the test a...

Page 14: ...25 e Label for RSSI column T represents RSSI measured at the HHT end f RSSI measured at the HHT end for Satellite labelled GAS g RSSI measured at the Satellite labelled GAS h Overall test result tick for Pass and cross for a Fail RSSI values will inverted to indicated failed results i Label for RSSI column S represents RSSI measured at the Satellite end j Transmit power of the radio during the tes...

Page 15: ...Energy Scan navigate to the Energy Scan menu item on Menu Screen 1 using and keys and press for the energy scan result graph as shown below to appear on screen Figure 10 Energy Scan Screen a A bar representing noise level on a channel the value ranges from 85dBm bottom to 35dBm top b Channel number 0 represents channel 11 of the ZigBee channels it is highlighted as it is one of the recommended cha...

Page 16: ...e on this screen the user can scroll through parameters using the and keys press to be able to edit the transmit power and channel number on which to transmit a continuous tone which can be done using the and keys and again press to set the new value After setting all the parameters user will navigate to START option and press to start transmitting the tone The symbol on the right will start blink...

Page 17: ... and the IHD and or GAS units As with the other options navigate to the Ch Ping option on menu screen 2 using and keys and select the option using key The single channel Ping Config screen as shown above will appear There are different parameters as shown in the figure above which are to be set according to test requirements To scroll through list of parameters use and arrow keys Press to edit and...

Page 18: ... on running and updating the display with the Single Channel Ping Results screen unless stopped manually by pressing key Single Channel Ping Results IHD GAS S T S xx xx xx xx PER xx CH RSSI xx xx b a c d f e g xx sec DUR a Received RSSI by HHT from IHD b Received RSSI by IHD c PER between HHT and IHD d Channel on which test is being performed e PER between HHT and GAS f RSSI received by HHT from G...

Page 19: ...is screen scroll through the list of channels from CH 11 to CH 26 on which the noise scan is to be done by using and keys and again press to set the desired channel The scan is started by navigating to START and pressing The dynamic energy levels on that channel will be displayed on the screen as shown in the figure above Editable values xx Continuous E Scan Test x 40 Ch xx 85 35 START a b c a d e...

Page 20: ...configuration screen allows the operator to modify the test parameters like Tx Power RSSI threshold Channel used for test and the duration of test To scroll through list of parameters use and arrow keys Press to edit and to edit values and then press to set the parameter value for the current session of test Once parameters are set navigate to the start button on the screen and press to start the ...

Page 21: ...d bring it closer to the RTR so that it can get the messages for the RTR Once that happens Screen 3 will appear and the HHT will set the test channel on all devices and start pinging messages to GAS for the set test duration and update the RSSI values As the test is running the operator can move the devices to get a measure of the optimum range between devices If any of the devices move outside th...

Page 22: ...eFinder To end the test press key and the HHT will send a message to end the test on both RTR and GAS units Until both units are in range the end message will not carry forward to GAS and the HHT will keep retrying which is indicated by periodic beeps on the HHT ...

Page 23: ...h a situation might exist where only an electricity meter is being installed together with an IHD In such cases it is possible to select the Satellite unit labelled IHD only to be used for test To do so one has to go to the Home Screen and scroll to using and item and press keys or to select between or and press to save the setting This setting is volatile and will revert to once the device is tur...

Page 24: ...a setting The Configuration screen is shown below Figure 17 Configurations Screen a The Countdown Timer value is set to a default of 5 seconds the operator can change it to values between 10 and 120 seconds The change made is volatile and will revert back to the default value1 after power off b A four digit PIN code allows access to advanced settings The factory programmed PIN code is 1985 which c...

Page 25: ... IHD Serial Serial number of Satellite unit labelled as IHD Only the Satellite with matching serial number will be used in the test b GAS Serial Serial number of Satellite unit labelled as GAS Only the Satellite with matching serial number will be used in the test c Profile Name Is the name of the profile out of the 10 stored profiles whose settings are currently displayed on screen d Countdown Ti...

Page 26: ... 16 15 13 10 7 1 dBm for long range version h Receive Threshold The minimum receive signal strength for a packet to be considered valid for test purpose The limit available is 85dBm to 45dBm changeable in steps of 1dBm i Packet Error Rate Maximum allowed packet error rate for a successful test The limits are 2 to 10 maximum changeable in 1 steps Label Parameter Minimum Value Maximum Value Change S...

Page 27: ...it Select the HHT unit for upgrade by navigating to it and pressing key That will start the bootloader in serial mode and the new firmware image can be transferred via Xmodem at 115200 8N1 baud using the Telegesis Terminal or any other terminal program that supports Xmodem The display on the HHT unit will show the following screen and the backlight will start to blink with red and green lights ind...

Page 28: ...ader in Xmodem receive mode Indicated by outputting C on the terminal as shown in the fig Now Transfer the new firmware ebl file to the HHT unit Once the file is transferred press 2 on host PC to run the new firmware Now Press Enter key on host PC to get the bootloader options on the terminal as shown in the fig Figure 22 HHT Firmware upgrade options ...

Page 29: ... eg Battery on SAT dying while transfer of file or ZigBee link broken the SAT unit will remain in the same bootload mode with red LED flashing The HHT will timeout after 30 sec and send out a message on the terminal as shown in fig The entire file needs to be transferred again to the SAT unit When the remote SAT unit is selected for OTA firmware upgrade the red LED starts flashing continuously And...

Page 30: ...ng type Where recordSize This is the total size of data collected at each site location recordSize is the addition of the recordMainHeader bytes recordSubHeader bytes records Since there can be any number of tests performed at any given site the recordSize is variable hence it is calculated at the end of the last test carried out at the site i e when the new site ID is entered by the user But it i...

Page 31: ...e current site and will increment after each test performed at the same site recordType The one byte recordType identifier which will indicate which type of test results is stored in the record field recordLength This value will be the actual length of the record excluding the record header bytes as the record header will be of fixed length recordTestSettings This will be the configuration setting...

Page 32: ...by the HHT Row 0 CH20 result Row 1 CH24 result Row 2 CH25 result Energy Scan Record recordType 0x03 recordLength 16 Record Data The energy results array will hold the values of Energy scan on all the ZigBee channels 11 26 test Records for Test A typedef struct int8u satARssi 4 2 int8u satBRssi 4 2 int8u perA 4 int8u perB 4 int8u testResult 4 recordTestARecords test Record for Test B typedef struct...

Page 33: ...o the required contrast level press to apply the contrast The HHT will beep once to indicate that the contrast is applied RANGE FINDER Press Any Key a HHT 2 4GHz Zigbee Network Surveyor IHD xxx xxx VER GAS xxx xxx c d b f e a Product Name b Space for OEM Label c Serial Number of the HHT d Serial Number of SAT A set to emulate IHD e Serial Number of SAT B set to emulate GAS f Device Firmware versio...

Page 34: ... start the scan To navigate through the Channel and START option use and keys Once the channel option is selected use and keys to scroll through the channel list If 11 26 option is selected the PAN scan will be performed over the entire ZigBee spectrum After selecting the channel press to apply the channel and press START The PAN scan will start and any PAN s discovered during the scan will be add...

Page 35: ... the new network found with permit join false however if an existing network changes its state from Y to N a long beep of 5 sec along with red backlight flash will indicate this change After 2 5 minutes of permit join turning to Y the join window indicator will turn ON and HHT will beep 5 times and flash blue backlight just as when a new PAN with permit join is detected to indicate that the permit...

Page 36: ...s powered from USB power source The charger charges the 2000mAh batteries at C 10 rate and it terminates the charge via voltage detection and a 12 hour timer The power requirement for charging as well as operating the unit is 1 5Watts at 5 Volts The charging state is shown on the Home screen by showing the following the symbol Figure 29 Battery Charging Symbol The charging symbol shown above is re...

Page 37: ...tellite Unit Layout Figure 30 Satellite Front a Model number SAT100 b Power Button to turn the unit On or Off c Red Green LED to indicate the operation state of the unit Figure 31 Satellite Back a SMA connector for Antenna b Product Label c Battery Compartment c b a a b c ...

Page 38: ...ays listening to commands from the HHT to which they are paired to and respond with the information required to calculate the results for various tests performed by the HHT There is an ON OFF button for power ON OFF and status LED s for SAT activity indication Buttons There is only button on the Satellite which is the Power Button as shown in Figure 30 The Power Button needs to be pressed down for...

Page 39: ...o conserve the power the Satellite units are turned off after 15 minutes of wakeup period If the Satellite receives any radio message from the HHT in the last 15 minutes of the wakeup period then it extends the wakeup period by 5 more minutes Nominal power consumed by the Satellite while it is turned on is 100mW Usage System Topology In a typical ZigBee Smart Energy installation it is expected the...

Page 40: ... RangeFinder locations Electric meter Gas meter and Kitchen work surface In the above picture the HHT is placed adjacent to the Electricity meter the Satellite unit labelled GAS is placed on the GAS meter and the Satellite unit labelled IHD is placed on the kitchen work surface The tests are then run on the HHT to make sure that all simulated devices will be able to communicate with each other Gar...

Page 41: ...Change Batteries Bring Closer to Handheld Flashing Green Flashing Red Yes Yes No Power On Handheld Unit From Main Menu select I for IHD only and IG for both IHD and GAS satellite units Perform Pre Test Pre Test Pass Start Test A on the Handheld Place Handheld in Test Location Test Completed Bring Closer to Satellite Units Yes No No No Test Pass Record Test Results Turn Power Off Start Test B on th...

Page 42: ...ly a PASS or FAIL result RSSI Calculation The RSSI calculation is a mixture of Median and Mode and will be calculated as follows n number of RSSI samples taken Sn value of nth RSSI sample e error margin dBm n samples will be taken and Sn stored in memory For each unique Sn the occurrence of Sn will be calculated and the highest occurring value shall be used as the RSSI value Packet Error Rate An n...

Page 43: ...ricate any integrated circuits The products are not designed or authorized to be used within any Life Support System without the specific written consent of Silicon Laboratories A Life Support System is any product or system intended to support or sustain life and or health which if it fails can be reasonably expected to result in significant personal injury or death Silicon Laboratories products ...

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