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Document #1155-4713 

Revision E 

 

User Guide to PL131

 

SENSITIVITY LEVEL: 

YELLOW 

THE LEADER  IN 
REMOTE ASSET TRACKING

 

Summary of Contents for PL131

Page 1: ...Page Document 1155 4713 Revision E User Guide to PL131 SENSITIVITY LEVEL YELLOW THE LEADER IN REMOTE ASSET TRACKING...

Page 2: ...able 4 2 1 Added Time Offset field to Configuration Message in o Table 4 6 o Table 4 6 1 o Table 4 6 2 Corrected size of first Length field to 1 byte in Table 4 1 Corrected size of Length field to 12...

Page 3: ...ting 4 2 1 3 1 Screws 4 2 2 Setup 4 2 3 Provisioning and activation 4 2 3 1 Iridium 4 2 3 1 1 Activation 4 2 3 1 2 Provisioning 4 2 4 Powering On Off 4 2 4 1 Power on 4 2 4 2 Power off 5 2 5 Testing 5...

Page 4: ...tion 29 APPENDIX A GLOSSARY OF TERMS 30 List of Figures Figure 5 1 Iridium network diagram 21 Figure 6 1 Output structure of the standard BSDIFF file 24 Figure 6 2 New output structure of the BSDIFF f...

Page 5: ...itioning System GPS receiver capable of determining the position of the device 2 Wireless network A communications network capable of sending information to and from the device Iridium SBD 3 CAT Wirel...

Page 6: ...or which it was transmitted and will be returned upon request or when no longer needed by recipient Disclosure to unauthorized third parties or duplication without the express written permission of Qu...

Page 7: ...e express written permission of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserved Caution There is a risk of explosion if the battery is replaced by an incorrect type Dispose o...

Page 8: ...ny interference with other electronic devices 2 1 3 Mounting 2 1 3 1 Screws M6 hex head or socket screws The preference is Hex head the design must also accommodate a deep well socket If socket head i...

Page 9: ...of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserved 2 4 2 Power off To power down the PL131 either remove the battery or utilize the push button 2 5 Testing When the battery...

Page 10: ...er The Air OTA configuration The CAT Wireless Office System is a system of middleware that manages the collection and communication of data from Caterpillar to the communications network and a web bas...

Page 11: ...s Set only the Satellite Breadcrumbs parameters For the Satellite Breadcrumbs set the following parameters Enabled turns this feature on Interval determines how long the device will sleep between send...

Page 12: ...BAL INC All rights reserved Time offset and Interval can both be set at the same time Before going to sleep the unit will decide whether to wake up at Minute of Day or at another set interval The mini...

Page 13: ...ibed in this section All INT types are assumed to be little endian 4 1 1 Concatenated This message is an MO message and is less than or equal to 340 bytes In the event the modem has more than one mess...

Page 14: ...detic long double lat lon lon_code lat_code lat 90 0 unsigned long lat_code double 0XFFFFFF 180 0 lon unsigned long lon_code double 0XFFFFFF 360 0 if lon 180 0 lon lon 360 0 See parsed example in Tabl...

Page 15: ...0x3DBC7E00u Seconds difference between Jan 6 1980 GPS Epoch and Nov 1 2012 Timestamp seconds since GPS Epoch NEW_EPOCH_OFFSET Table 4 2 1 Example Status message Data Type Size 61 DA D0 4D 24 32 AA 01...

Page 16: ...e C7 Configuration Checksum 00 00 0000 reserved Timestamp D2 1D 6A 01 8 2 2013 4 07 46 PM 4 1 4 Nack This message can be either MO or MT Table 4 4 Nack message Name Data Type Size Notes Message opcode...

Page 17: ...Parsed Value Message opcode AF Factory Reset message Type of object FF Reserved ObjectId 00 00 Reserved Unit will default its configurations 4 1 6 Configuration This message is an MT message Table 4 6...

Page 18: ...9 bytes Table 4 6 2 Example Configuration message parsed Field Name Data Hex Parsed Value Message opcode C7 Configuration message Enable Motion Detection FA 80 Enabled Motion Detection Threshold 250...

Page 19: ...emperature reading battery voltage signal strength wake up event type Is network available Queue message Attempt connection to server Did Locator connect to server No Yes Send message to server Did Lo...

Page 20: ...rd parties or duplication without the express written permission of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserved Wait for FOTA packet Received a packet Last packet End of...

Page 21: ...third parties or duplication without the express written permission of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserved 4 2 2 Communication path Send a Status message 4 2 2 1...

Page 22: ...C All rights reserved 4 3 Failure modes 4 3 1 Failure to get GPS fix If the Locator fails to get a GPS fix no message will be queued and the Locator will go to sleep and wake up at the next specified...

Page 23: ...Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserved 4 3 3 Signal strength is unknown If signal strength is unknown or undetectable it will be set to 99 this will not stop an atte...

Page 24: ...able to be read the Locator will report 127 as the temperature Locator wakes up Does Locator know its temperature Temperature is recorded in the status message Report 127 as the temperature in the sta...

Page 25: ...between modems and the Iridium ground network are accomplished via a constellation of low earth orbit LEO satellites There are 66 operational satellites with additional spares that operate in 6 polar...

Page 26: ...he express written permission of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserved Mobile Terminated Short Burst Data MT SBD 1 A message is sent to the Iridium Gateway server b...

Page 27: ...ory constraints on the SAT units 2 LZF Compression http oldhome schmorp de marc liblzf html LZF Compression does not differ programmatically from the standard open source implementation BSDIFF creates...

Page 28: ...ed by recipient Disclosure to unauthorized third parties or duplication without the express written permission of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserved Figure 6 1 O...

Page 29: ...triplet x1 y1 z1 24 byte triplet x_n y_n z_n 34 byte header Control Section of size ctrl_len Diff section is Interleaved with extra section Figure 6 2 New output structure of the BSDIFF file The diff...

Page 30: ...Set the IsCompressed flag in header to 0 Yes Figure 6 3 Process flow of maximum application image size checks 6 2 Delivering a patch file QUAKE has developed a custom transport protocol for delivering...

Page 31: ...ta Type Size Notes Opcode Message opcode U8 1 byte Set to 0x3D EndSeqNo Total pkts in download 1 U16 2 bytes Checksum Checksum of entire file after compression U16 2 bytes FileId not used U8 1 byte Fi...

Page 32: ...byte Set to 0x36 AckOpcode OpCode of the message ACK U8 1 byte Will be 0x3D when ACK ing the header Will be 0x3C when ACK ing the data every 7 packets Checksum Should be 0x0000 reserved for future U16...

Page 33: ...no longer needed by recipient Disclosure to unauthorized third parties or duplication without the express written permission of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QUAKE GLOBAL INC All rights reserv...

Page 34: ...be returned upon request or when no longer needed by recipient Disclosure to unauthorized third parties or duplication without the express written permission of Quake Global is prohibited 2013 2015 QU...

Page 35: ...AKE products and services described herein No license express or implied by estoppel or otherwise to any intellectual property rights is granted under this document If any part of this document refers...

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