Multitech mDot LoRa Deployment Manual

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MultiTech mDot™ and xDot®

LoRa® Module

Deployment Guide

Configuring your gateway and

setting up your sensor console

mPower™ 5.3.5+, mPower™ 6.0.0

MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide

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Page 1 MultiTech mDot™ and xDot® LoRa® Module Deployment Guide Configuring your gateway and setting up your sensor console mPower™ 5.3.5+, mPower™ 6.0.0 MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 2 Revision History Version Date Notes Author 7/12/2022 Initial Release Sean Havanas MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 3: Table Of Contents
ETTING UP THE HIRP STACK ERVER ON THE ADIO RIDGE ONSOLE 9. S ETTING UP M OT OR X ODULE 10. U PGRADING THE IRMWARE 11. C ONNECTING THE M OT TO THE ADIO RIDGE ONSOLE MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 4 This application note describes the steps involved in setting up an mDot™ LoRa® radio, setting up a MultiTech Conduit® gateway, connecting to the Radio Bridge Chirpstack server and adding a mDot radio. This document is intended to help customers expedite getting data to the cloud.
Page 5: Gateway Overview
IoT applications. The Conduit features Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy (BT/BLE), GNSS and two accessory card slots that enable users to plug in MultiTech mCard™ accessory cards supporting their preferred wired or wireless interface to connect to a wide range of assets locally to the gateway.
Page 6: Prerequisites
It allows keyboard mapping and macros. Putty – This has become a standard for SSH connections to devices. It also supports a serial connection over a UART or USB emulated UART. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 7: Setting A Gateway Using The
To get the device ready to use the Conduit interface 4.1.1 Connect the power supply, Ethernet cable and the antenna to the gateway. 4.1.2 Plug the power adapter into a 110V source and connect the Ethernet cable directly to your PC/laptop. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 8 In the URL bar of the browser enter 192.168.2.1 4.2.3 Most browsers have a block on non HTTPS web pages. You might see an error like this. 4.2.4 Press the advanced button at the bottom of the page. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 9 Your first page will show that it is in Commissioning Mode. In this mode you set your login and password information. Enter a Username that you choose. 4.2.7 After you enter a Username enter a password. Follow the rules listed below for creating a password. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 10 4.2.8 It will ask you to retype your password. 4.2.9 Then it will ask you to login. 4.2.10 Login and you will be prompted with a First Time Setup Wizard. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 11 You will be asked if you want to enable ‘Call Home Remote Management’. Click Next, We will do this later. Next it will ask you to set the time. Set the time and date. 4.2.12 For the Network Interface just click next for now. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 12 Remote Management is next. This is optional. Enabling this does help to find an IP later and with debug issues. To use this feature, click on this link to go to DeviceHQ®. Then click on Register Account. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 13 Then click ‘Account Info’. 4.2.17 It will show your Account Key. You can cut and paste it. 4.2.18 If you decide to use this feature, paste the Key in the Account Key Box. If not press next. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 14 4.2.19 Click next and access configuration. 4.2.20 Next it will ask about Bootloader protection. Click Finish. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 15: Upgrading The Gateway
You can download it from here. Download it to your local hard drive. When this document was created, Version 6.0.0 was the latest. 5.1.3 The file name for Version 6.0.0 is conduit_6.0.0_upgrade-signed.zip. This will be different as new versions are released. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 16 Extract the firmware. You should have a .bin file and release note. 5.1.5 Install the Upgrade 5.1.6 In the Conduit software, click on the Administration tab on the left side of the page. 5.1.7 On the Firmware Upgrade page, click on ‘Choose Firmware Upgrade File’. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 17 In this section, we will use one of the three network interfaces (wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi or cellular) to provide internet access to the device. The first Section 6.1 is for wired Ethernet. If you are going to connect with Wi-Fi, go to Section 6.2. For cellular go to Section 6.3 MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 18 We are going to change eth0 to a dynamic IP that will be sent from a router/switch DHCP server. 6.1.3 To do this click on the pencil edit icon. You can see that eth0 is connected as a LAN on bro (bridge) 6.1.4 MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 19: W I -F I Access Point
Change the Direction to ‘WAN’ and Mode to DHCP Client, then click Submit. 6.1.5 6.2 S ETTING ONNECTION TO A CCESS OINT 6.2.1 On the left of the screen click on ‘Wireless’ ‘Wi-Fi as WAN’. 6.2.2 Then under ‘WI-FI as WAN click enabled and Submit. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 20 Click on ‘Save and Apply in the upper right side of the screen. 6.2.5 It will verify you want to make the changes. Click OK 6.2.6 Next it will ask to reboot. 6.2.7 After the reboot, go back to ‘Wireless’ Wi-Fi as WAN’. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 21 It will ask you for the ‘Shared Key’. This is your password to log onto your Access Point. 6.2.10 Then click ‘Save and Apply’ in the upper right. 6.2.11 Next click ‘OK’ at the Continue prompt. 6.2.12 Next move to Section 6.4 MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 22 WAN eth0. One option is to change the session time out. Default is 5 min. I change it to 60 minutes during a Proof of Concept and back to 5 minutes for a deployment. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 23 6.4.3 You will be prompted about HTTPS. It is ok. Just click ok. Then press the ‘Save and Apply’ icon in red. 6.4.4 Click ok to apply settings. 6.4.5 Click ok to reboot. 6.4.6 MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 24 6.6.2 When you click on it you will see the IP address under eth0. 6.6.3 Use that IP address in a Web browser to gain access. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 25 The second way is to login to your companies or labs router/switch and look it up. Here is an example of mine when I click on DHCP v4 Clients. Some devices will show the name MultiTech. You can also look for a MAC that starts with 00:08:00:4A.
Page 26 Type ‘ifconfig’. It will show all the network interfaces. If you are setup on wired Ethernet it will be eth0. For Wi-Fi it will be wlan0. It will show the device IP in the data. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 27: Etting The Ateway
HIRP TACK ETWORK ERVER In this section, configure the gateway to forward all packets to the Radio Bridge ChipStack Server. 7.1 S ETTING UP ONDUIT FOR PACKET ORWARDING 7.1.1 Go to ‘LoRaWAN’ ‘Network Settings’. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 28 7.1.3 Under ‘Network Settings’ ‘Network’ Change it from Manual to ‘Radio Bridge ChirpStack’. 7.1.4 Click ‘Submit’. 7.1.5 Then click ‘Save and Apply’ at the top of the screen. 7.1.6 Click ‘Ok’ at the prompt. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 29 In this section we will setup an account on the Radio Bridge console and will add our gateway to the Chirp Stack Server. 8.1 C REATING A ONSOLE CCOUNT ON THE ADIO RIDGE ONSOLE 8.1.1 Go to the Radio Bridge Console. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 30 Go the pane on the side and select ‘Gateways’. 8.2.3 There will be a section on the right to ‘Add Gateway’. Click on that. 8.2.4 It will bring up a list of LoRa Network Servers to choose from. Click on ‘ChirpStack’. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 31 Conduit interface. It is located under ‘LoRaWAN’ in the Conduit interface. Then go to ‘LoRa Card Information’ and click ‘Show’. You will see a clipboard next to the Gateway EUI. That will copy it into your clipboard. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 32 LAN enter the IP Address of that gateway. If you have a private cellular SIM, enter the private IP address of that SIM. The last field is ‘Description’. You can enter information to describe the gateway. When you are done it should like something like this. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 33: Etting Up Mot Or
It should look like this. ETTING UP M ODULE In this section, we will setup the mDot/xDot LoRa module, review its capabilities and show how to upgrade the mDot/Xdot modules. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 34 "Thing" for years on battery power. 9.2 S ETTING UP THE M OT AND OMMUNICATING WITH IT OVER 9.2.1 The development system for mDot/xDot includes a carrier card that brings out a USB connector. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 35 9.2.4 Once it is plugged into a PC or laptop it will show up as drive. In this picture it is drive D: The mDot will have the name ‘MULTITECH’ before the drive letter. The xDot will ‘XDOT’ 9.2.5 It will also show up as two COM ports in Windows Device Manager. Click on the start menu and type ‘Device Manager’.
Page 36 Tera Term for this example. Open Tera Term. It will show the COM ports you can open. 9.2.8 Select the first one and open a Window. Check to make sure it is set to 115,200,8,N,1 MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 37 BAUD rates and other setting are also 115,200,8,n,1. Then type ‘AT’ in that Window you should see the word ‘OK’. The reason there are two terminal windows is one is an output MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 38: Upgrading The Firmware
This section shows the steps to upgrade the firmware of the device. 10.1 U PGRADING THE IRMWARE 10.1.1 Download the latest version of firmware from here. 10.1.2 When I created this, the latest was 4.1.5. For the xDot use the one listed for xDot. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 39 Give it a couple minutes to complete. Here is an example of dragging the file you downloaded to the mDot/xDot Drive. The file was on drive D: and the mDot/xDot drive is drive MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 40 11.1.1 Open the Terminal connected to the mDot/xDot that supports the AT commands. 11.1.2 You need to determine the Device ID of the mDot/xDot. To do this issue the command AT+DI. On my device it is Device ID - 0080000000009ce4. 11.1.3 MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 41 AT+PN=1 AT+NJM=1 AT+NI=0,0080000000009ce4 AT+NK=0,01020304050607080910111213141516 AT&W AT+JOIN AT+NJS 11.1.7 You are ready to join. Next, we will prepare the Radio Bridge Console for the Join. 11.2 S ETTING UP THE ADIO RIDGE ONSOLE FOR THE MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 42 11.2.2 Login and go to the Devices tab. 11.2.3 Click on ‘Add Device’ 11.2.4 It will ask what Network you would like to join. Click on ChirpStack. 11.2.5 Next it will ask for information about your sensor/mDot. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 43: Connecting The M Dot
Europe. It should look like this with your Device ID instead of the one shown below. 11.2.7 Click on Continue. 11.2.8 Then Confirm 11.2.9 Then View Devices. It will show the devices. 11.3 C ONNECTING THE M OT TO THE ADIO RIDGE ENSOR TO THE ONSOLE MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 44 It should look just like this, but the Device ID will be your unique AT&F AT+PN=1 AT+NJM=1 AT+NI=0,0080000000009ce4 AT+NK=0,01020304050607080910111213141516 AT&W AT+JOIN AT+NJS 11.3.2 Cut and paste those commands one at a time. The join should show ‘Successfully joined network’. 11.3.4 Type ‘at+send=Hello World’. MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...
Page 45 11.3.5 Go to the Radio Bridge Console and click on Devices. 11.3.6 You should see your devices connected at the last date data was sent. 11.3.7 If you click on the device, it will show the data and the HEX to ASCII Decode MultiTech mDot™ LoRa® Module Deployment Guide...

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