USR-N720-ETH User Manual 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview The USR-N720 is a high-performance, integrated edge computing data acquisition gateway that integrates multiple core functions such as edge data collection and computation, point reading and writing, rapid cloud connectivity, and data encryption.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual Fig. 1 Dimensions of N720-ETH 1.5. LED indicators The USR-N720-ETH provides LED indicators to monitor the device working status with a comprehensive simplified troubleshooting, the LED indicator behaviors are defined below. Table 1 LED indicators LED name...
USR-N720-ETH has a built-in Web server, which provides a convenient way to access and configure the device. Users can use Edge , Firefox or Google browser to access it. This chapter is a quick introduction to the USR-N720-ETH IoT gateway. It is recommended that users read this chapter and follow the instructions once for the system, and you will have a basic understanding of the product.
LAN will be located, regardless of whether or not they are part of the same subnet as the host. Click Search to search for USR-N720-ETH gateways. When your unit appears in the search results, you can click device to select it and change the IP type to DHCH, save your change.
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192.168.0.7. Set the PC's IP address as: 192.168.0.X (X is any valid value from 2 to 253 except 7). The specific Windows system operation page is shown in Fig.14. you can access the Web page of the USR-N720-ETH gateway through browser as mentioned above.
Press the “Reload” button (inside a small hole) on the back panel for 3-15 seconds and then release or follow the procedure Section 3.1.9, to restore the USR-N720-ETH gateway to the factory default settings. 1.10. Technical support and assistance Please visit the USR IoT website: https://www.pusr.com...
Every USR-N720-ETH Industrial IO gateway is equipped with a built-in web server in the firmware. Therefore, the device can be accessed by using a web browser for configuring by entering the device’s IP address in the URL field of your web browser. An authentication will be required and you will have to enter the username (Default value is “admin”) and password (Default...
2.1.2. Network configuration If using Ethernet port to connect to the Internet, you must assign a valid IP address to the USR-N720-ETH before it will work in your network environment. The IP address must be unique within the network. If the device is connected to the Internet and should connect to other servers over the Internet to get some services such as Network Time Protocol (NTP) server, you will need to configure the DNS server in order to be able to resolve the host name of the NTP server.
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USR-N720-ETH User Manual Fig. 9 Network web page Table 5 Network configuration list Parameter Item Description Default Value Network priority EtherNET : Connect to the Internet via Ethernet port(WAN). default setting. Detection period Interval of PING detection. Unit: s Probe server The main destination host of PING detection.
Details on work mode connectivity protocols and its settings of USR-N720-ETH gateway are given in Operation modes, this section will only focus on the part of parameter description.
Close: Not enabled Open: Enabled Working mode USR-N720-ETH gateway supports 2 different operation Modes which are TCP TCP Client Server, TCP Client. The operation Mode describes the role of the device and the connection between the device and other remote devices in the network which would like to communicate with serial device on N720-ETH’s COM port.
Select the mqtt protocol version. V3.1 and V3.1.1 are supported. V3.1.1 Client ID The client ID defined the identifier of the USR-N720-ETH Gateway. None The IDs of the various MQTT clients have to be unique for the respective MQTT Broker. If two MQTT clients are using an identical ID, the connections of theses clients to the MQTT Broker are disconnected.
2.1.6. PUSR cloud Users can achieve remote management of the USR-N720-ETH through PUSR cloud. And for PUSR cloud, users can deploy the full platform on local server(the private cloud platform). By default, the PUSR cloud is enabled. Your Trustworthy Industrial IoT Partner...
USR-N720-ETH User Manual 2.1.7. Edge gateway The N720-ETH gateway supports southbound fieldbus protocols of Modbus RTU protocols. It also supports northbound MQTT/TCP in socket, AWS IOT, and Alibaba Cloud IoT Platform. The N720-ETH gateway fulfills a different role on each of its sides.
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USR-N720-ETH User Manual Fig. 14 Data acquisition settings Fig. 15 Add slave device Table 9 Slave device parameters Parameter Item Description Default Value Device name Name of slave device, which is unique for the current gateway. Device x Range: 1-32 characters Detail Detail information of the slave device.
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USR-N720-ETH User Manual Modbus Uart: Select the serial port to which the Modbus slave device is connected. None protocol Default is Uart1. Slave address: the Modbus ID of slave device. Range: 1-255. Default is 1. Polling interval: the time interval between 2 consecutive query command. Range: 10-65535ms.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual 1.1.1.2. Add modbus TCP/RTU data point Table 10 Data point(node) configuration of Modbus TCP/RTU Parameter Item Description Data point name Identifier of the data point, which must be unique for the gateway. Node xxxx Detail Detail information of the data points.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual This formula is for data collecting. Formula of control This formula is for data writing. None Change reporting Enable change reporting function. Not checked The report is triggered if the collected data changes. You can use a tolerance to only log the data point if the value changes more than X amount.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual Change reporting Enable change reporting function. Not checked The report is triggered if the collected data changes. You can use a tolerance to only log the data point if the value changes more than X amount. Range The report is triggered if the collected data changes.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual again until acknowledgment is received. QoS 2: exactly once. The MQTT protocol uses the confirmation of confirmations to ensure that a message is delivered exactly once. Retain Message Not checked By setting the Retain flag the MQTT Broker is instructed to save the most recent data value for the topic.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual Fig. 18 Protocol conversion Table 13 Details of protocol conversion Parameter Item Description Default value Enable Close: not enable protocol conversion function. Close Open: enable protocol conversion function. Protocol Users can send the right format query command from remote modbus master or JSON MQTT publisher to the N720-ETH gateway.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual Fig. 19 System settings System settings list Table 14 Parameter Item Description Default value Host name The name of the device, up to 32 characters,can’t be null N720 User name The user name of web console and can be modified. up to 16 characters,can ’ t be...
After opening this function, the device will restart at the preset time. 2.1.9. SD card function The USR-N720-ETH supports external SD card to restore the collected data when the Internet connection is disconnected. When the SD card is not inserted, the webpage will give the status.
2.2.2. Network setting Sometime the USR-N720-ETH gateway might not be in the same subnet as your PC, therefore, you will have to use this utility to locate it in your environment. To configure each device, first click to select the desired device (default IP:192.168.0.7) in the list of configuration utility, and then change the IP address to avoid any IP address conflict with other hosts on your LAN, save your change.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual Fig. 22 Changing network settings 2.2.3. Reboot the device This function is available to allow you to reset the gateway. The function disconnects both the ethernet and serial connections. The function also allows the gateway to save new configuration settings to flash memory. To reset the device: 1.
Enable edge computing 3.1. Add modbus slave device Connect serial device to the serial port of USR-N720-ETH gateway, and then configure the slave parameter on the data acquisition tab. Click add slave to add a device, click edit to configure the device.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual 3.3. Add group If reporting the data via socket A, users need to configure the socket A parameters first. 3.4. Test result of data report In this document, we use Modbus Slave software to replacement the real Modbus Slave device to do the test. From the TCP server side, we can notice that the data interval is 15s, it’s keep the same that we set in the adding group page.
USR-N720-ETH User Manual 3.5. Protocol conversion The protocol conversion function is mainly applied in the scenario where the server actively sends protocol commands to obtain data or control points from the N720-ETH. After the N720-ETH is connected to the server through the link of protocol conversion, the server issues standard protocol commands to realize the collection and control of all point data of the N720-ETH.
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USR-N720-ETH User Manual Query command from TCP server: Query data using JSON: When sending query command from server should specific format. query/control Your Trustworthy Industrial IoT Partner www.pusr.com...
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The valid data of the data points Error code, 0: The command can be operated by the USR-N720-ETH, 1: The command can’t be operated by the USR-N720-ETH. To read the value of node0101 and the Humidity, we can send data like the following: {"rw_prot":...
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There are 3 response data for the unoperated command: The USR-N720-ETH responses no data to the command, The USR-N720-ETH will response data conforming to the error protocol if the ver/dir/id is not right, Your Trustworthy Industrial IoT Partner www.pusr.com...
USR-N720-ETH User Manual The USR-N720-ETH will response data conforming to the error protocol if the contents of r_data and w_data are both wrong, the USR-N720-ETH will response data of the right one if only one of the r_data and w_data is wrong.
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