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GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015
GRP-520 Series
3G Gateway
User Manual v1.30
High Quality, Industrial Data Acquisition, and Control Products
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  • Page 1 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 GRP-520 Series 3G Gateway User Manual v1.30 High Quality, Industrial Data Acquisition, and Control Products...
  • Page 2 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 Warranty All products manufactured by ICP DAS are warranted against defective materials for a period of one year from the date of delivery to the original purchaser. Warning ICP DAS assumes no liability for damages consequent to the use of this product.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................4 Features ......................5 Applications ...................... 5 2. Hardware ....................8 Specifications ....................8 Appearance and pin assignments ..............9 Dimensions ..................... 10 LED indicators ....................11 Rotary Switch ....................12 Installing GRP-520 ..................

  • Page 4: Introduction

    The GRP-520 provided by ICP DAS is a 3G gateway for Ethernet or serial port. With optional GPS model, the GRP-520 can also be a GPS tracking system. It can be used in M2M application fields to transfer the remote I/O, Modbus data or video of the camera via 3G/2G.

  • Page 5: Features

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 1.1 Features  Support Tri-band WCDMA 2100/1900/850 MHz and Quad-band GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz.  10/100 Base-TX compatible ethernet eontroller  COM port: COM1 (3-wire RS232), COM2 (RS-485), COM3 (3-wire RS232) ...
  • Page 6 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 Application 1: 3G Router Application 2: Remote Video Monitor Application 3: Remote Control (Serial Port to 3G gateway)
  • Page 7 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015...

  • Page 8: Hardware

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 2. Hardware 2.1 Specifications GRP-520 Item System / Software 3G Gateway Ethernet and Serial port (1x RS-232, 1x RS-485) to 3G Embedded service Web Server, 3G router System ARM CPU (312MHz) SRAM 64 MB...

  • Page 9: Appearance And Pin Assignments

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 2.2 Appearance and pin assignments COM Port & Power Input Terminal No. Pin Assignment RxD1 COM1 TxD1 COM2 RxD3 COM3 TxD3 DC.+VS Power DC.GND F.G.

  • Page 10: Dimensions

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 2.3 Dimensions...

  • Page 11: Led Indicators

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 2.4 LED indicators There are three LED indicators to help users to judge the various conditions of GRP-520. The description is as follows： PWR(Green)：Power LED to indicate whether the external power is input or not. The...

  • Page 12: Rotary Switch

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 2.5 Rotary Switch There are some functions of rotary switch. The description is as follows： 0：Normal mode, default position. 1 : Debug mode, this a engineering mode, we can communicate with the OS console.

  • Page 13: Installing Grp-520

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 2.6 Installing GRP-520 If users want to start GRP-520 normally, it needs to follow these steps to install the GRP-520 below: A. Install the antenna B. Plug in the normal SIM card (Before apply the SIM card, confirm it is OK by mobile phone.)

  • Page 14: Web Utility

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 Web Utility You must configure GRP-520 from web utility before using. 3.1 Login the Utility Please login before you use the web utility. The default username is “admin”, and the default password is “admin”...

  • Page 15: Information

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.2 Information You can get the basic information of the device here. 3.2.1 Device Information This page provides basic device information: (1) Product Name: the Name of your product (2) Serial Number: only one number of ICPDAS product...
  • Page 16 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.2.2 Network Information This page provides basic network information: (1) Ethernet: Ethernet information ．Mode: static IP or DHCP ．MAC address: a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces. ．IP Address: a computer's address under the Internet Protocol ．Mask: Mask will be provided from Gateway provider.
  • Page 17 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 ．Register Status: Indicating GRP-520 connect to 3G base successful or not. ．Signal Quality: the 3G signal quality. 3.2.3 Storage Information This page provides information about “Micro SD card”, “USB Disk”: (1) USB Disk / SD card: ．Size: total size of storage...

  • Page 18: Network

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.3 Network The user can configure the Network functions here. 3.3.1 Ethernet This page provides the basic settings of Ethernet: (1) IP Address: IP of Ethernet. (2) Mask: the Mask of the gateway. (3) Gateway: IP of the gateway.
  • Page 19 PS. Some ISP upgrades their system cause GRP-520 difficult to dial-up in Taiwan. Please enable this function to avoid this problem. When GRP-520 dial-up fails, it will try to solve this problem automatically. (It maybe take about 10 minutes, and this problem was solved in v1.1.1 and later).
  • Page 20 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.3.4 VPN Client Configure The user can set VPN Client configure here: (1) Server Address: VPN Server address. (2) User Name: user name for VPN Server. (3) Password: password for VPN Server 3.3.5 DNS Server The user can set DNS server IP here: (1) Primary DNS Server: the device will use it to get DNS service first.
  • Page 21 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (1) Server: the address of DDNS service provider. (2) Domain: The domains name you registered. (3) Username: the username of DDNS service. (4) Password: the password of DDNS service. (5) Period: the period time (seconds) to update your address.
  • Page 22 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.3.7 DHCP Server The Device could be a DHCP Server. The user can set the IP range for DHCP client. (1) Subnet, Netmask, Lease-time: these items are read-only. (2) Routers: the router IP. It usually is set as your device IP.
  • Page 23 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.3.8 Routing This page provides routing rule configuration. (1) IP: IP address. (2) Mask: the mask will effect how many IP this rule manages. ”24” = 255 IPs, “28” = 16 IPs, “32” = 1 IPs.
  • Page 24 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.3.9 Port Mapping (Port Forward) This page provides Port Mapping rule configuration. (1) Type: the protocol type. There are “TCP” and “UDP” (2) From: the interface that the socket comes from. ”ppp0” is 3G interface.
  • Page 25 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.3.10 Diagnostic This page provides the tools to check the problem of the network. (1) Ping Test: this tool will ping “Target IP”, and show result below. (2) Traceroute: this tool will trace routing path to “Target IP”, and show the result below.

  • Page 26: System

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.4 System The user can configure “password”, “system parameter”, reboot the device and restore factory settings here. 3.4.1 Password The user can change the password of the web utility here. (1) Password: new password.
  • Page 27 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.4.3 Reboot Timer The user can use this function to reboot system automatically. (1) Reboot Time (everyday): the time for rebooting system. (2) Enable: Enable Reboot Timer function. 3.4.4 Backup & Restore The user can backup the device settings and restore it here.
  • Page 28 3.4.6 System Time This page provide information about the time of the device.: (1) Set Time: set the time of GRP-520 the same as your computer. (2) NTP Server: device will connect to the NTP Server to synchronize time. (3) Timezone: if you do not know your timezone, please click the link “check timezone” to find out.
  • Page 29 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (3) Start: click the button to start this process. (4) Stop: click the button to stop this process.

  • Page 30: Vxserver

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.5 VxServer The user can configure VxServer firmware here. 3.5.1 VxServer The user can configure VxServer firmware here. (1) Server IP: Server IP or URL. (2) Server Port: the port of the server. (3) Heartbeat Time: if setting this value small, it is sensitive to detect network disconnected.
  • Page 31 (8) Modbus TCP to RTU: Modbus/TCP to Modbus/RTU gateway function. Port1 is COM2 of GRP-520 (RS-485); Port2 is COM3 of GRP-520 (RS-232). (9) Default Baudrate: this value is dependent on your Modbus RTU device. Please set this value is the same as your Modbus RTU device.

  • Page 32: Rtu Client

    (2) Server Port: the port of the server. (3) Station ID: the ID for this device. (do not be the same with other RTU device) (4) Data Update Period (sec.): set report time interval. GRP-520 will report all data to RTU Center every interval time your setting.
  • Page 33 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (6) Baud Rate (RS-485 for Modbus/RTU): the baud rate of the COM2 (RS-485). (7) Data bit: the data bit of COM2. (8) Parity: the parity bit of COM2. (9) Stop bit: the stop bit of COM2.
  • Page 34 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (1) Modbus Device Number: display the modbus device number here. You can choose a model in the list, and then use the “Add” button to add a new modbus device. (2) Device Name: the Name of the modbus device. This Name will be showed in RTU Center.
  • Page 35 (2) Max. Time per Log File (min.): the time interval to change log file and send log file via Email or FTP. GRP-520 will change logger file before the file be over 3 MB, and move old logger file into “LOGFILE” folder, and send out the file at the same time.
  • Page 36 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (5) FTP Username: username for login (6) FTP password: password for login (7) Enable FTP Function: enable FTP report function. (8) Email From: the email will be sent from this address. (9) Email To: the email address that will receive logger file. Using “,” to separate each...
  • Page 37 (4) Email Server Port: the server port of the email server. Usually it will be 25, 465, or 587. (5) Email Username: the username of your email account. (6) Email Password: the password of your email account. (7) “Test” button: Pressing this button, GRP-520 will send a test mail to the mail address in “Email To” field.
  • Page 38 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 3.6.4 Modbus Test The user can test all configure for Modbus here. There is the result message for testing ET-7026.

  • Page 39: Example

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 Example 4.1 3G Router Application This example shows the steps to share 3G network to 3 XPac8000. (1) Please configure the Ethernet of XPac8000 as: IP=192.168.0.10 ~ 12 Mask=”255.255.0.0” gateway = “192.168.27.51”. (2) Set the Ethernet IP of GRP-520.
  • Page 40 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (3) Set Pin code of your SIM card, and Enable “Auto-Dialing” function. Set “User Name” and “Password” if your SIM card need it. Press “Modify” to save (4) Enable “3G/GPRS Reconnection” function to keep your 3G/GPRS network always online (usually, ISP will disconnect your connection once every 1~3 days).
  • Page 41 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (5) Set routing rule to share 3G network. This setting will share 3G network to IP address from 192.168.0.0~192.168.0.255. Press “Modify” (6) Please reboot GRP-520 to enable settings. (you can reboot from the web or the power source)

  • Page 42: Web Server And Ip Camera Application

    This example shows the steps to share 3G network to ET-7044 and IP camera. (1) Please Set the Ethernet of ET-7044 and IP camera as: IP=192.168.0.20 ~ 22 Mask=”255.255.0.0” gateway = “192.168.27.51” (2) Set the IP of GRP-520 as below: IP=”192.168.27.51” Mask=”255.255.0.0”...
  • Page 43 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (3) Set Pin code of your SIM card, and Enable “Auto-Dialing” function. Set “User Name” and “Password” if your SIM card need it. Press “Modify” (4) Enable “3G/GPRS Reconnection” function to keep your 3G/GPRS network always online (usually, ISP will disconnect your connection once every 1~3 days).
  • Page 44 (5) Set “DDNS” function. (Because the IP of 3G usually is not a fixed IP, we use DDNS to get a fixed domain name) (6) Set “Port Mapping Rule” to let user access the device behind GRP-520 via the internet. This setting will bind the port of 3G interface to “Target IP:Target Port”.
  • Page 45 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (8) Please type the IP address or domain name of GRP-520 in 3G network. You will look as below. (It maybe like “mygrp5k.no-ip.org:12080”.)
  • Page 46 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (9) If you want to see the IP Camera image from web browser, please type the IP address or domain name of GRP-520 in 3G network. (It maybe like “mygrp5k.no-ip.org:12180”.)

  • Page 47: Remote I/O Control / Temperature Monitor

    4.3 Remote I/O Control / Temperature Monitor This example shows remote control application via “serial port to 3G gateway function”. (1) Please connect your device (DL-100 or PLC) to serial port of GRP-520.: (2) If you never use VxServer, please refer the link as below: http://m2m.icpdas.com/VxServer.html...
  • Page 48 Let other settings be default value. Click “Enable Function” to enable VxServer function. Press “Modify”, and GRP-520 will try to connect to server. if “Alive” field is not “True”(Green color), it mean VxServer function fail. Please check your settings again.
  • Page 49 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (6) Please reset your device and un-plug your Ethernet from GRP-520, it will dial-up in 60 seconds, and then it will connect to your control center.
  • Page 50 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (7) After GRP-520 connect to VxServer, please follow steps below: (a) Press “Search Servers” button, you will get a device list. (b) Click right button of the mouse on GRP-520 (c) Click “Add Server”.
  • Page 51 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (8) You will see virtual com port: COM11, COM12, but it can’t be opened. Click “tool”/”Restart Driver” to restart VxComm driver. Open com port to connect your device. (In this case, COM11 is RS-485, COM12 is RS-232 of GRP-520.)

  • Page 52: Modbus/Tcp To Modbus/Rtu Over 3G, And Card Reader Monitor

    After steps below, please set “IP:Port” of Modbus/TCP program as “127.0.20.1:10001” on your control center (Port 10001 is RS485; Port 10002 is RS232) (1) Please connect your device (M-7017 or PLC) to RS-485 of GRP-520. Baudrate of Modbus device is 9600 bps, data format is 8N1 (Data bits, Parity, Stop bits).
  • Page 53 For Modbus RTU device: Please configure as below Click “Enable Function” to enable VxServer function. Press “Modify”, and GRP-520 will try to connect to server. If “Alive” field is not “True”(Green color), it mean VxServer function fail. Please check your settings again.
  • Page 54 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015...
  • Page 55 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (6) Please reset your device and un-plug your Ethernet from GRP-520, it will dial-up in 60 seconds, and then it will connect to your control center. (7) After GRP-520 connect to VxServer, please follow steps below: (a) Press “Search Servers”...
  • Page 56 (8) You will see virtual com port: COM11, COM12, but it can’t be opened. Click “tool”/”Restart Driver” to restart VxComm driver. Open com port to connect your device. (In this case, COM11 is RS-485, COM12 is RS-232 of GRP-520. Please don’t open COM11, because it’s Modbus/TCP to Modbus/RTU mode)

  • Page 57: Rtu Client For Remote Control Application With Rtu Api

    Modbus/TCP I/O with RTU Client / Server. There are ET-7017, M-7045, and a PLC in this system. (1) Please connect your device (ET-7k or M-7k modules) to Ethernet or RS-485 of GRP-520.: (2) If you never use RTU Center, please refer the link as below: http://m2m.icpdas.com/m2m_rtu.html...
  • Page 58 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (4) Enable “3G/GPRS Reconnection” function to keep your 3G/GPRS network always online (usually, ISP will disconnect your connection once every 1~3 days). Generally, you can set the Server IP as your server’s IP or google’s DNS server IP (8.8.8.8).
  • Page 59 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (5) Add ET-7017 in “Modbus Device” tab. choose ET-7017 in the list, and then press “Add” button. (6) The web will bring out all I/O number information as below. Please modify “Device Name”, “Device ID”, “IP” and “Port” for your ET-7017.
  • Page 60 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (7) Add M-7022 in “Modbus Device” tab. choose M-7022 in the list, and then press “Add” button. We will see the screenshot as below. The web will bring out all I/O number information. Please modify “Device Name” and “Device ID”...
  • Page 61 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (8) Add PLC in “Modbus Device” tab. (communication with RS-485) choose “Custom” in the list, and then press “Add” button. We will see the screenshot as below. Here we set the “Device Name”, “Device ID”, “DI Number”, “AI Number” for the PLC.
  • Page 62 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (9) Three devices we set as below: (10) Please choose “Modbus Test” function, and press “Test” button to test our settings. If the result is successful, the screenshot will be as below, and please follow next step.
  • Page 63 Set “Server Address” and “Server Port” of your server that running RTU Center.  Set Station ID of this GRP-520, and don’t be the same with another RTU device.  Set “Data Update Period” and “Heartbeat Period”. (0  disable) ...
  • Page 64 (13) Execute RTU Center, and add a RTU device in RTU Center.  Click “New Device” icon.  Input the alias name of your GRP-520  Choose module type as “GRP-520”  Set Station ID as “1”, and then press “OK” button.
  • Page 65 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (14) GRP-520 will connect to RTU Center later, and screenshot as below.
  • Page 66 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (15) You can double click on “ET-7050” to bring out “Output control panel”, and press “DO1” to control remote DO. (16) Download RTU API from RTU Center web page, and extract it. There are RTU API library...
  • Page 67 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (17) Copy pre-building demo into folder of RTU Center. (demo must be in the same folder with RTU Center, because they use the same share memory in M2M_RTU.dll) Here we copy two file “RTU_CS_demo.exe” and “M2M_RTU_NET.dll” from C# demo.
  • Page 68  Press “Get Information” to get all stations information.  Set “Station ID” as 1 (because we set Station ID as 1 in GRP-520)  Press “(2)ReadData” button to read Local IO data. Because GRP-520 don’t have local IO, we get the error code here ...

  • Page 69: Rtu Client For Remote Control Application With Opc Da Server

    (1) Please refer last section for setting of “RTU Client”, “RTU Center”. (2) After install “NAPOPC.M2M DA Server”, please click the icon to launch NAPOPC.M2M DA Server from right-bottom toolbar of desktop. (3) Click “Search” to add all tags of GRP-520 automatically.
  • Page 70 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (4) You will get a tag list as below. (5) You can double click on device node to modify device name.
  • Page 71 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (6) Now you can use OPC Client to read I/O data from NAPOPC.M2M DA Server. Or you can client “Monitor” to monitor all I/O data.

  • Page 72: Rtu Client For Remote Control Application With Indusoft

    GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 4.7 RTU Client for Remote Control Application with InduSoft. This example shows how to using SCADA “InduSoft” to control/monitor remote I/O with GRP-520. (1) About RTU Client, RTU Center and OPC Server, please refer last section.
  • Page 73 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (4) Configure Tag Name and Item Column  Fill in your tag.  Double-click Item column and select the point from pop-up window.

  • Page 74: Email Or Ftp Report I/O Logger File

    Configure “Max. Time per Log File” to indicate how long to change / send back log file. If the file size is close 3MB, GRP-520 will create a new log file to recode I/O data and move old log file into “/RTU/LOGFILE/” in SD card.
  • Page 75 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015...
  • Page 76 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (3) Finally, please don’t forget enable firmware in “Main Info.” Tab. If you don’t need the firmware send data to RTU Center, you can set “Data Update Period” as 0.

  • Page 77: Vpn Application

    (2) The PC in the office side can access XP-8341’s web page data via VPN tunnel. (1) Please Set the IP of web server (XP-8341) as: IP=10.0.0.140 Mask=”255.255.255.0” gateway = “10.0.0.1” (2) Set the Ethernet IP of GRP-520 as below: IP=”10.0.0.1” Mask=”255.255.255.0”...
  • Page 78 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (3) Set Pin code of your SIM card, and Enable “Auto-Dialing” function. Set “User Name” and “Password” if your SIM card need it. Press “Modify” (4) Enable “3G/GPRS Reconnection” function to keep your 3G/GPRS network always online (usually, ISP will disconnect your connection once every 1~3 days).
  • Page 79 10.0.0.1~10.0.0.255. Press “Modify” (7) Set “Port Mapping Rule” to let user access the device behind GRP-520 via the VPN network. This setting will bind the port of 3G VPN interface to “Target IP:Target Port”. Port 10080 of 3G VPN interface  10.0.0.140:80...
  • Page 80 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (8) Please reboot GRP-520 to enable settings. (you can reboot from the web or the power source)
  • Page 81 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (9) GRP-520 get a VPN IP “192.168.3.56” as below: (10) Please type the VPN IP address of GRP-520 in the browser of the office side PC (here is 192.168.3.56:10080). You will look some thing like below.
  • Page 82 GRP-520 User Manual, V1.30, Aug. 2015 (11) Now, the XP-8341 also can connect to the PC in the office side.

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