Operating Guide
SonoCollect 210/211
VU.SH.E1.02 | 3
© Danfoss | 2019.01
Please ensure that the package contents are
complete. These are as follows:
• 1 SonoCollect 210/211
• 1 USB cable
• 1 Short manual
• 1 CD with USB driver, reading software and
documentation
Items Supplied and
Packaging
The packaging can be reused or recycled. Please
dispose properly of any packaging material
no longer required. If you notice any transport
damage during unpacking, please contact your
supplier immediately.
To avoid risk of suffocation, keep packaging
film away from children!
Operating Principle
The SonoCollect 210/211 is a radio receiver for
M-Bus Mode T1, T2 and C1 consumption meters
(electricity, gas, water and heat). The received
radio telegrams of the consumption meters are
stored into an internal, non-volatile memory
which is capable of holding more than 58.000
telegrams. At predefined points of time the radio
telegram data are transmitted over an internet
connection established by the GSM / UMTS
modem to a FTP server.
Since the SonoCollect 210 is getting all its
operating power only from the lithium battery
pack, it is not possible to enable the radio
receiver permanently. Therefore, the user
configures the SonoCollect 210 to enable the
radio reception in fixed intervals of time for a
certain duration. The radio telegrams received
during this time are stored internally. For each
consumption meter only the first received radio
telegram at each reception is stored. Additionally
received radio telegrams of one meter at one
reception are discarded.
The maximum life time of the battery pack
depends especially on these three parameters:
frequency of the radio reception (e.g. once per
hour, every 6 hours etc.), duration of the radio
reception (e.g. 45 seconds, 90 seconds etc.) and
the number of FTP data uploads per month (e.g.
once per day, every 7 days etc.).
The frequency of the radio reception gives the
timely resolution of the consumption values.
The duration of the radio reception should
be adapted to the radio emission interval of
the radio consumption meters. In general it is
advised to use a 3.5 times longer radio reception
interval than the radio emission interval to
have an adequate security margin (example:
Also at configurable points of time the stored
radio telegrams, which have not already been
transmitted, are sent to the FTP server.
radio consumption meters are sending every 8
seconds
SonoCollect 210/211 radio reception
duration > 40 seconds).
It is also possible to predefine a list of radio
meters to receive. In this case the radio reception
is shut down when all radio meters of that
list are received which saves battery energy.
This option is especially recommended if the
number of radio meters to receive is low (e.g.
less than 40 radio meters) and if there are a lot of
other radio meters receivable. In this case only
the demanded radio meters are stored (saves
memory place) and the radio reception is shut
down as soon as the last radio meter has been
received (saves battery energy).
