HIKOB AZURE LION
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November 2015
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Installation
4.1
Overall methodology
Installing an HIKOB radio network requires a good topology analysis of your site to maxi-
mize radio transmission quality by optimizing positions and numbers of HIKOB nodes in the
network. A preliminary study done with your vendor determines elements that will constitute
your HIKOB radio network acquisition.
Draw a site map:
position your stationary sensors on parking places for HIKOB WISE COW
Parking; on the way where passing vehicles should be controlled for HIKOB WISE COW
Traffic; where road temperature have to be measured for HIKOB POLAR BEAR; and so on
with other sensors types. Then you can determine the number of routers you need for your
network following these rules:
– The maximum distance between buried sensors
and the HIKOB GATEWAY is 30m.
– The maximum distance between a HIKOB AZURE LION and a HIKOB GATEWAY, varies
between 100 and 300m, depending on the terrain topology.
– A HIKOB GATEWAY hosts 80 elements in all, and 30 as direct children in the multi hop
radio network.
– The HIKOB AZURE LION, the HIKOB router hosts 16 sensors or other routers.
For good radio transmission, both HIKOB GATEWAY and HIKOB AZURE LION need to
be installed on elevated spots, around 5m high. You will have better signal transmission with
routers close to sensors and far from other routers or HIKOB GATEWAY.
For an HIKOB AZURE LION routing detections for parked vehicles (HIKOB WISE COW
Parking), HIKOB recommends not going further than a distance of 50m between routers,
which compensates any problem that could be caused by an unpredictable environment. This
will ensure a good signal transmission that won’t be alterred for example by heavy trucks,
passing or parked in the transmission field.
For dynamic counting on road made by HIKOB WISE COW Traffic, you will need one
HIKOB AZURE LION per counting site, within a 50m radius. If you have several options
positioning the HIKOB AZURE LION, choose the one closer to sensors, moving it away from
other routers and / or the HIKOB GATEWAY.
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HIKOB buried sensors are sensors for car detection, that is, HIKOB WISE COW Parking and Traffic, and
HIKOB POLAR BEAR for roadway temperature measure
