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SmartSensor Advance USER GUIDE Provo, Utah 801.734.7200 www.wavetronix.com...
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FCC Part 15 Compliance: The Wavetronix SmartSensor sensors comply with Part 15 of the Federal Communications Com- mission (FCC) rules which state that operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesirable operation.
Mounting on a pole upstream from the stop bar Choosing a mounting height Troubleshooting your installation Occlusion and Multipathing Fixing occlusion problems Fixing multipath problems INSTALLING THE SMARTSENSOR ADVANCE Mounting the sensor Sensor alignment Aligning the sensor to the roadway Cable connection Applying silicon dielectric compound...
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SSMA communication basics Making a serial connection Making an Internet connection Making a virtual connection Playing real traffic in a virtual connection Troubleshooting a connection Advanced communication tools Viewing connection information Viewing sensor information Viewing software version information Disconnecting from a sensor Using the address book Viewing the error log Updating the sensor...
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Priority channel Setting up a Priority channel Copying and pasting channel settings VERIFYING CHANNELS-ALERTS-ZONES Verification options Verifying using roadway display options Verifying using tracker logging Using the scale view Changing the roadway display Configuring the tri-view display option Verifying all channels Verifying individual channels SETUP OUTPUT COMMUNICATION IMPORT/CREATE TEMPLATE...
Figure 1. SmartSensor Advance This guide will cover selecting a mounting location, installing, and configuring a SmartSensor Advance. To find the instructions for specific tasks, see the table of contents or index. If your questions aren’t answered in this guide, visit www.wavetronix.com/support for access to supplemental materials, like technical documents, knowl- edge base articles and troubleshooting information.
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Wavetronix, will void the customer warranty. Wavetronix is not liable for any bodily harm or damage caused if unqualified persons attempt to service or open the back cover of this unit. Refer all service questions to Wavetronix or an authorized distributor. Important note Failure to follow the installation guidelines laid out in this guide could result in decreased performance.
Location Mounting location, height and offset 600 ft 900 ft Figure 2. The SmartSensor Advance and Advance Extended Range footprint The SmartSensor Advance and SmartSensor Advance Extended ˿ Range detect moving traffic out to a maximum range of 600 ft.
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Keep cable lengths in mind when you pick mounting locations; ˿ and the center of the when you use the Wavetronix cable, cables can be as long as lanes of interest. 1500 ft. (457.2 m) if you’re using 24 VDC and RS-485 commu- nications;...
Mounting on a vertical pole Figure 5. Vertical pole Lets you place the sensor near the stop bar. ˿ Allows the sensor to be mounted high enough to reduce ˿ occlusion. Mount close to the lanes of interest to prevent departing traffic ˿...
˿ Make sure there are no poles, mast arms or signal heads that ˿ could potentially cause occlusion. Mounting on the front side of the mast arm Figure 8. Front side of the mast arm SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
The SmartSensor Advance Extended Range is recommended ˿ at this location, because some of the sensor’s range is used to cross the intersection. Allows you to aim the sensor directly at the lanes of interest ˿ without rolling. Great for applications like queue management where a zone at ˿...
Tall vehicles like semi trucks ˿ Signs ˿ Barriers and sounding walls ˿ Trees and more ˿ Multipathing occurs when a large flat surface near the sensor inter- feres with detection. A radar signal can bounce around several times SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
between the surface and the vehicles before returning to the sensor. This can make the sensor detect a vehicle where there is none. This can happen with Buildings ˿ Signs ˿ Guard rails ˿ Sounding walls and more ˿ Fixing occlusion problems Move the sensor higher on the pole (keeping it within the rec- ˿...
For more information. This process will be different if you’re using the span wire mount; see Using the Span Wire Mount Figure 11. Attaching the mount with the SmartSensor Advance in the Wavetrronix knowledge base. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Height by 25-50 ft. Table 1. Target distance in feet Chapter 2: Installing the SmartSensor Advance •...
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Roll the sensor so that the radar beam footprint lines up with For more instructions. If you need more the road. detailed alignment instructions, see Target Roll Angles for Aignment in the knowledge base on the Wavetronix website. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Pan the sensor left or right until the target distance is centered between the notches in the target crossbars. Roll the sensor until the long, narrow bar is parallel with the center of the lanes of interest. Chapter 2: Installing the SmartSensor Advance •...
Tear the tab off the tube of silicon dielectric compound that came with the sensor. Squeeze about half of the compound on the connector at the base of the sensor. Connecting the cable Figure 16. Cable run through pole (left) and through conduit (right) SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
ESD triggered by the sensor handler, particularly on the outer grounding lug before being properly grounded, may cause harmful effects to the Advance components. Earth Grounding Digital/Common Grounding Figure 17. Grounding a bonded intersection Chapter 2: Installing the SmartSensor Advance •...
Twist the cable grip in the terminal block. to tighten. Follow the instructions in step 2 to land each conductor and drain into the correct spots in the terminal blocks. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Figure 19. Junction box wiring Figure 20. Mini junction box wiring Chapter 2: Installing the SmartSensor Advance •...
Click 65x straight to the controller; if your warranty. If you need cabinet doesn’t support SDLC, you can connect the Click 65x to more information, contact closure cards. contact support@ wavetronix.com. Figure 21. Click 650/656 using SDLC (above) and contact closures (below) SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
If you haven’t already, run the sensor cable back to the traffic cabinet. Place the Click 65x in the cabinet on a shelf or use U-channel For more information. For more information mounting brackets to attach it to the cabinet wall. on the Click 65x Start connecting the sensor conductors to the terminal blocks products, see...
Use the included screws to mount the Intersection Preassem- the backplate by bled Backplate in the traffic cabinet. placing a T-bus to the DIN rail and then rocking the module onto the T-bus. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Figure 25. Connecting power cable to terminal blocks Start by connecting the power cable. This backplate is shipped from Wavetronix with the conductors in the cable already ter- minated in a terminal block plug. Insert this plug into the power terminal blocks.
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There are no communication options besides the RS-485 on the Click 222. An additional communication device can be easily added to communicate with the installation remotely or over RS-232. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Advance sensor. It can only be installed on a PC. Downloading SSMA Figure 27. Finding the SSMA download on the Wavetronix website In a browser, navigate to www.wavetronix.com/en/support. From the Detection drop-down menu, select SmartSensor Advance.
Follow the instructions on your screen to choose where to install, and then to choose which shortcuts to create. Click Finish when you’re done. SSMA main screen Open SSMA to see the screen below. Figure 29. SSMA main screen SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Changing the software size Click one of the three boxes at the bottom of the screen to choose between the small, medium, and large display sizes. SSMA communication basics Note. Click the lightning bolt icon to connect using the same settings as your previous connection.
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From the Speed drop-down, choose 9600 bps (the default rate for the SmartSensor Advance), unless you have previously changed the baud rate of the sensor. If there is only one sensor on the bus, leave this set to Isolated Sensor.
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Contact Wavetronix Technical Support before changing this setting. Flow Control Allows you to use flow This should be set to control handshaking None.
Sensor. If your connection can see several sensors (they’re all on a single bus, for example), click the Multi-drop Network tab and enter the sensor ID of the sensor you want to connect to. Click Connect. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Contact Wavetronix Technical Support before changing this setting. Multi-drop Network If there is only on sensor on the bus, leave this set to Isolated Sensor. If your connection can see several sensors (they’re all on a single bus, for example), set this to Multi-drop Network and enter the sensor ID of the sensor you want to connect to.
If you make changes to the sensor’s setup while using a virtual connection, those changes are saved to the virtual sensor file, which by default will be saved to C:\Program Files\Wavetronix\ SmartSensor Manager Advance vX.X.X\Bin. If you want, you can back up those virtual sensor settings; that will create a sensor setup file which can then be restored to an actual sensor.
Check the port settings. ˿ Make sure the Click 65x is configured properly. ˿ If a failure occurs repeatedly, contact support@wavetronix.com. ˿ Advanced communication tools Once you’ve made a connection, the Communication button of the main screen should now be animated, with arrows moving past each other.
Connect to a sensor. Right-click anywhere in the software. This will bring up various window options that contain information about the sensor and the SmartSensor Manager Advance software. These settings will be explained further in Chapter 6. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Viewing software version information Figure 39. Version windows Right-click anywhere on the screen. Select SSMA Advance Version to view the current software build version number or click Component Versions to view component, firmware, and hardware version information. Disconnecting from a sensor Click Communication on the main screen.
Click on the notepad icon at the bottom of the Communication screen (serial, Internet or virtual). The error log will be saved to C:/ProgramFiles/Wavetronix/ SmartSensor Manager Advance vX.X.X/bin. It will also open in your default .txt editor. If you need to save a copy for trouble- shooting purposes, do a Save As, as the file will be written over next time you view an error log.
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If the downgrade message appears, it means that the sensor firm- ware is newer than the version of SSMA you’re using. Click Cancel, and then get the newest version of SSMA from www.wavetronix.com. Chapter 4: Connecting to the Sensor •...
After connecting to a sensor, access the sensor settings by clicking the Sensor Settings button on the main screen. Changing these settings is optional; if you leave them set to their defaults, the sensor will still function. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Description Details Serial Number Shows the Can’t be changed. identification number assigned to the sensor by Wavetronix. Sensor ID Shows the sensor Change this to assign ID, which is the last a multi-drop address seven digits of the for a sensor.
SSMA standard use (reports gets the traffic data it data as detected by reports. the sensor). Choose Diagnostic for testing and training (creates simulated traffic). Changing Communication tab settings Figure 46. Communication tab SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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2. The default setting is communication devices 9600 bps. you are using. Port 1 Port usually reserved Please contact Wavetronix (Control) for connecting and Technical Support before configuring the sensor. changing this setting. Port 2 (Data)
Sensor Configuration Figure 47. Sensor Configuration, main screen Click Sensor Configuration on the main screen to open the Sensor Configuration screen. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Note. Click the lightning bolt icon at the bottom of the screen to save the current configuration to the sensor’s non-volatile, flash memory. Figure 48. Sensor Configuration screen 1. Installation Details Note. Accurately configuring the settings on this screen will affect the aiming instructions given in the Alignment...
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The bottom number represents how many feet the sensor is in front of or behind the stop bar. Height Lets you enter the The sensor height may sensor’s height. affect range accuracy. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
2. Automatic Radar Configuration Figure 50. Automatic Radar Configuration screen Automatically configuring the sensor Note. The scale button allows you to see the sensor’s range. The range will vary depending on if you are connected to a SmartSensor Advance or a SmartSensor Advance Extended Range.
Figure 52. Manual Radar Adjustment screen Changing PGA thresholds for the entire approach Note. The Programmable Gain Amplifier (PGA) allows you to change the radar sensitivity for the entire approach. Figure 53. Editing the PGA SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Click the PGA button. Raise or lower the PGA and click OK. Editing thresholds for specific bins Note. Negative values will increase sensitivity; positive values will decrease sensitivity. Figure 54. Editing specific bins Click and drag over the ranges that need to be adjusted. Click the pencil button and the Edit Sensitivity Thresholds window will appear.
Rebooting the sensor Figure 55. Rebooting the sensor Click the power icon at the bottom of the screen. In the prompt that appears, click Yes. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Setup Channels-Alerts-Zones Figure 56. Channels-Alerts-Zones Click Channels-Alerts-Zones on the main screen to open the Channels-Alerts-Zones screen. Chapter 7: Setup Channels-Alerts-Zones •...
Figure 58. Simple channel A Simple channel consists of only one zone. A Simple channel’s output will be triggered when its zone settings are met. This chan- nel is commonly used for basic dynamic dilemma zone applications. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Setting up a Simple channel Click a channel tab and then click the Enabled checkbox. Enter a channel name. Select Simple from the Type drop-down menu. Change the desired settings and click OK. Setting Description Details Channel settings Name Lets you set a name This setting is for the channel.
Lets you set a name This setting is for the channel. optional. Type Lets you select the Select Normal here. channel type. Enabled Turns the channel on. This checkbox must be checked for normal operation. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Setting Description Details Delay (s) Sets how long, in It is recommended seconds, the sensor that you change delay delays the channel settings in the traffic output. controller. If needed, you can also change delay settings in the SSMA software. Extend (s) Sets how long, in It is recommended...
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The zone ouput will output to times only be triggered when the number of if a vehicle meets detections in a zone the Headway, % equal or exceed a Utilization and Tuning density requirement. Factor requirements. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Using the Dynamic Density filter Figure 60. Using the Dynamic Density filter Click a zone tab and click the Dynamic Density radio button. Click any of the Dynamic Density fields. Change the values in the Headway, % Utilization, and/or Tuning Factor fields. Close the Edit Dynamic Density window.
Lets you set a name This setting is for the channel. optional. Type Lets you select the Select Latched here. channel type. Enabled Turns the channel on. This checkbox must be checked for normal operation. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Setting Description Details Delay (s) Sets how long, in It is recommended seconds, the sensor that you change delay delays a channel settings in the traffic output. controller. If needed, you can also change delay settings in the SSMA software. Extend (s) Sets how long, in It is recommended...
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The channel will output to times only be triggered when the number of if a vehicle meets detections in a zone the Headway, % equal or exceed a Utilization and Tuning density requirement. Factor requirements. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
Using the Dynamic Density filter Figure 62. Using the Dynamic Density filter Click a zone tab and click the Dynamic Density radio button. Click any of the Dynamic Density fields. Change the values in the Headway, % Utilization, and/or Tuning Factor fields. Close the Edit Dynamic Density window.
Lets you set a name This setting is for the channel. optional. Type Lets you select the Select Pulse here. channel type. Enabled Turns the channel on. This checkbox must be checked for normal operation. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Setting Description Details Zone settings Range (feet) Lets you enable Either click and drag a zone and set its the blue zone arrows range. anywhere along the roadway or change the values in the Range field. Speed (mph) Lets you set the Click inside the Note.
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(Level 2). Range (feet) Lets you enable Either click and drag a zone and set its the blue zone arrows range. anywhere along the roadway or change the values in the Range field. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Setting Description Details Speed (mph) Lets you set the Click inside the Note. The speed speed thresholds that Speed field and use and ETA filters will only be activated if will trigger the zone the up/down arrows the Speed and ETA output.
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Figure 65. Copying channel settings Right-click on a channel tab and select Copy Channel. Right-click on another channel tab and select Paste Channel. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Contact Wavetronix Support if you want to use more than two channels. Figure 66. Channels-Alerts-Zones button, main screen Click Channels-Alerts-Zones on the main screen, and then click Verify Channels-Alerts-Zones on the Channels-Alerts-Zones screen.
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If the actual traffic matches the software traffic, your channels, alerts and zones are set up properly. Verification options CAZ selection button Roadway Left sidebar Right sidebar Sensor Stop bar Roadway button Figure 68. Verifying tools SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Setting Description Details CAZ selection button Shows the currently Click this to go selected channel, back to the Setup alert and zone. Channels-Alerts- Zones screen. Roadway button Allows you to choose Click this to cycle what data will be through all the displayed on each roadway display tracker.
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You may be able to improve accuracy by adjusting thresholds (covered in Chaper 6), double-checking the alignment (covered in Chapter 2), or changing the mounting location. If all else fails, con- tact your dealer or support@wavetronix.com. Verifying using tracker logging Note. This tool...
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You may be able to improve accuracy by adjusting thresholds (covered in Chaper 6), double-checking the alignment (covered in Chapter 2), or changing the mounting locations. If all else fails, con- tact your dealer or support@wavetronix.com. Using the scale view Figure 70. Scale view Chapter 8: Verifying Channels-Alerts-Zones ...
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Qualified Count Shows Qualified The data displayed on Count and Dynamic the trackers depends Density data. on the channel type selected in the Setup Channels-Alerts- Zones screen. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Setting Description Details Discovery Range Shows the range at This is only available which the tracker was with SmartSensor first detected. Advance Extended Range. Priority Level Shows the priority This is only available level assigned to a with SmartSensor vehicle based on Advance Extended its discovery range.
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Select the display options you want to appear on the trackers. Verifying all channels Note. If a channel is not enabled, it will be grayed out in the right sidebar. Figure 72. Verifying all channels SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Click the right sidebar button until the All option appears. This option shows all eight channel outputs at the same time. Chan- nel LEDs will turn red when the output is triggered. Watch the LEDs and make sure they function the way that you expected.
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S = Simple channel LED type. N = Normal L = Latched P = Priority Pu = Pulse Letter under channel Shows the channel D = Delay settings. E = Extend M = Max timer SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Setting Description Details AND/OR below alert Shows if AND or OR logic is applied. Solid black line Appears above LEDS for inverted zones. Tracker turns light If a channel is blue selected, the tracker meets the range, speed, or ETA requirements for at least ONE of the channel’s zones.
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Setup Output Communication Figure 74. Setup Output Communication button Click Setup Output Communication on the Channels-Alerts- Zones screen. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Select the format of Allows you to Select Z4 if you’re the output manually select which using a Click type of data the 100/112/114. SmartSensor Advance will transmit. Select Simple if you’re using a Click 104/172/174 (not available for SmartSensor Advance Extended Range).
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Enter a unique a 6-character tag 6-character tag to that will help identify identify intersection which intersection location. the speed came from. This tag is inserted after the speed bytes of the trigger speed message. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Import/Create Template Figure 76. Import/Create a Template button Click Import/Create a Template on the Channels-Alerts-Zones screen. Chapter 10: Import/Create Template •...
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Select the channel you want to use as your template from the Channel used to create template drop-down. Click the magnifying glass icon and either select a template from the list or create your own template. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Click OK. Click Create Template. Importing a template Note. A message may appear saying that zones in the channel template are outside the sensor’s detection range. If you load the template, those zones will be deleted from the channel configuration. Figure 79.
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Using Tools Figure 80. Tools Click the Tools button on the main screen to open the Tools screen. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Figure 81. Tools menu When you are connected to a sensor, only the Backup/Restore and Beam Alignment options will be available; when you aren’t connected to a sensor, only the Serial Terminal and Rack Card Tools options will be available. Backing up and restoring sensor setup files Figure 82.
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OK. Click the Restore Sensor Setup button to apply the saved configuration from the backup file to the sensor. Restore Sets all sensor settings Factory back to the factory Setup defaults. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Using the beam alignment tool Note. The alignment tool helps you visualize the radar footprint and doesn’t affect sensor operation. Figure 83. Beam Alignment tool Click the Beam Alignment button in the Tools menu. Verify that the settings you entered on the 1. Installation Details screen are correct.
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Figure 84. Serial Terminal screen Click the Serial Terminal button in the Tools menu. Click Settings and choose a communication port and baud rate. Save the settings by closing the window. Click Open to start a terminal session. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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Using Rack Card Tools Note. Rack Card Tools allows you to verify channel mapping into the traffic controller without being connected to a sensor. Figure 85. Rack Card Tools screen Click Settings and choose a communication port and baud rate. Close the Serial Settings window.
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Channel SmartSensor Matrix to the traffic controller Outputs toggle switch. can share the same inputs. control bus, all 16 outputs are shown, allowing you to test communications to rack cards from either sensor. SmartSensor Advance User Guide •...
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INDEX SYMBOLS dilemma zone 13, 54, 56, 65, 67 Discovery Range 66, 71, 74 6-conductor cable. cable downgrading sensor 41 % Utilization 58, 63 drip loop 21 Dynamic Density 58, 62–64, 74 dynamic dilemma zone protection 56 address book 40 advanced warning signs 13 alert 56–61, 70–71, 77–79 earth ground 21, 27...
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