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Wattsense Box V1.2 Installation Manual

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Box V1.2
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  • Page 1 Installation Guid Box V1.2 Universal Building Connector...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    ....... 1.4 Computer access to the Wattsense console ........

  • Page 3: What Do You Need Before Starting

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 1 / 23 1 What do you need before starting? 1.1 Provided material • Box – Dimensions: 160 x 110 x 55 mm – Weight: 340 g • GSM standard antenna • LoRa standard antenna 1.2 Required material...

  • Page 4: Computer Access To The Wattsense Console

    • A Box must have been activated in advance before it can be fully installed and configured. • If the Box hasn’t been activated, ask the administrator of the account to create an "installation" access on the Wattsense user console and retrieve the login information (email address and password).
  • Page 5 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 3 / 23 – Or attach 2 screws to a wall and hook the Box using the notches on the back of the case: Screws of maximum 4 mm in diameter, with a head of maximum 7.5 mm diameter, a spacing of 89.4 mm.
  • Page 6 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 4 / 23 • Connect the cable to the power supply. • Check that the "Power" LED is lit (steady green light). • Wait for ten seconds: the "Heartbeat" LED flashes (green light).

  • Page 7: Gsm Antenna

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 5 / 23 • Wait for the GSM LED to flash; if the LED does not flash after a few minutes, see the GSM Antenna chapter. • Check that the Box appears on the console: the presence indicator of the Box changes from red to green.

  • Page 8: To Connect The Box To The Bms

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 6 / 23 • If the signal quality is still insufficient: use a high-gain antenna with a maximum of 10 meters of cable; this antenna can, for example, be moved to the outside or to the other floors to obtain a better signal quality. Please note that, beyond 15 meters of cable, the GSM signal is significantly weakened.
  • Page 9 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 7 / 23 • Connect the Box to the switch (IP network) on which the supervision PC/BMS server is connected. • Check that the ETH1 or ETH2 LED lights up. Configuration: • If there is not a DHCP server on the network, attribute a static IP address, its mask and the gateway if necessary to the Box (Discuss with the building’s IT manager).

  • Page 10: In Case Of Lon Ip-852 Network

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 8 / 23 4.2 In case of LON IP-852 network Connection: • Make sure to have an Ethernet cable. • Connect the cable to the Ethernet ports of the Box ETH1 or ETH2. • Connect the other end of the cable to the IP-852 server on the LON network.

  • Page 11: In Case Of Lon Ft10 Network

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 9 / 23 • Register the IP address of the Box on the IP-852 server of the LON network; the IP-852 server’s password is probably required. Information to retrieve in preparation for the configuration: • Write down the neuron-ID, brand and model of the equipment, and any identifying information. This information will be necessary for the installation configuration and to retrieve data.

  • Page 12: To Connect The Box Directly To The Technical Equipment In The Absence Of A Bms

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 10 / 23 • Connect also this gateway to the LON FT10 network. Information to get in preparation for the configuration: • Write down the Neuron-ID, brand and model of the equipment, and any identifying information. This information will be necessary for the installation configuration and to retrieve data.
  • Page 13 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 11 / 23 • Connect the other end of the cable to the equipment. • Verify that the ETH1 or ETH2 LED lights up. To connect 2 devices • Make sure to have 2 Ethernet cables.
  • Page 14 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 12 / 23 • Connect the cables to the 2 devices. • Check that the ETH1 and ETH2 LEDs light up. To connect 3 equipment or more make sure to: • Have an Ethernet cable for the Box.

  • Page 15: The Equipment Communicates In Modbus Rtu (Rs485)

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 13 / 23 • Check that the ETH1 or ETH2 LED lights up. • Connect all equipment to the switch via the Ethernet cables. To configure each of the equipment • Using the technical documentation of the equipment, find its IP address and TCP port (and if necessary, for some devices, the address of the slave "Slave ID").
  • Page 16 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 14 / 23 • The goal is to create a maximum of 2 networks, each grouping equipment with the same communication configuration and assign them to the 2 RS485 ports of the Box. • If the characteristics of the equipment need to constitute more than 2 homogeneous networks, it is necessary to order another...
  • Page 17 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 15 / 23 To connect the equipment: • Caution: Do not group together devices with different communication parameters on the same Bus. • Serial wire the network or each of the 2 networks.
  • Page 18 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 16 / 23 • Connect the network to an RS485 port of the Box To configure each one of the equipment...

  • Page 19: The Equipment Communicates In Bacnet Ip

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 17 / 23 • Configure the address of the 1st Modbus slave to 1, the 2nd to 2, the 3rd to 3 and so on. • Caution: A network must not contain multiple slaves with the same address.
  • Page 20 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 18 / 23 • Make sure to have an Ethernet switch. • Connect the power supply to the switch. • Connect an Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port ETH1 or ETH2 of the Box. • Connect the other end of this cable to the Ethernet switch.

  • Page 21: The Equipment Communicates In Lon Ft10

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 19 / 23 To configure each of the equipment • From the technical documentation of the equipment, retrieve its IP address and the BACnet port. • If the equipment does not have an IP address, assign one to it, 192.168.1.1 for the first device, then 192.168.1.2 for the second device, 192.168.1.3 for the third device, and so on.

  • Page 22: The Equipment Communicates In Lon Ip-852

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 20 / 23 • Connect it to the USB port 1 or 2 in the Box. • Wire the gateway to different devices as you wish, in serial, star, etc. To configure each of the equipment •...
  • Page 23 Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 21 / 23 • Connect the other end of the cable to the IP-852 server of the LON network. • Verify that the LED ETH1 or ETH2 lights up.

  • Page 24: The Equipment Communicates In Lpb

    Box Wattsense - Installation Guide 22 / 23 • Register the IP address of the Box on the IP-852 server of the LON network. To configure each of the different equipment • Write down the Neuron-ID, brand, model of the equipment, and any identifying information. This information will be necessary for the installation configuration and to retrieve data.

  • Page 25: To Connect The Box To Lorawan Sensors

    floors to obtain the best signal quality. For each sensor: • Add the sensor to the user console (available at https://console.wattsense.com) by naming it to be identifiable. • Send the configuration to the Box.

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