C256U-PQ User Manual
Document Number: 990-01201
Rev. 1.09 06/2019
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1. General Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1
2. ON/OFF ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
3. Product Specifications ............................................................................................................................................. 2
4. Application Information .......................................................................................................................................... 2
4.1 Function .......................................................................................................................................................... 2
4.2 Application Scenarios................................................................................................................................. 3
4.3 Uplink Message ............................................................................................................................................ 3
4.3.1 Register ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
4.3.2 Heartbeat ................................................................................................................................................. 5
4.3.3 Beacon ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
4.3.4 Bracelet ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
4.3.5 Light perception ..................................................................................................................................... 9
4.3.6 G-Sensor ................................................................................................................................................ 10
4.3.7 Beacon List ............................................................................................................................................. 11
4.3.8 Alarm ....................................................................................................................................................... 11
4.3.9 Acknowledge ........................................................................................................................................ 12
4.4 Downlink Message .................................................................................................................................... 12
4.4.1 Register acceptance............................................................................................................................ 12
4.4.2 Lora configuration ............................................................................................................................... 13
4.4.3 configuration ...................................................................................................................... 13
4.4.4 Command request .............................................................................................................................. 14
4.4.5 Acknowledge ........................................................................................................................................ 15
4.5 Performance test and work mode ....................................................................................................... 15
1. General Introduction
This LoRa & BLE Device is designed based on BLE and LoRa technology. With the advanced LoRa technology and
build-in BLE module, the LoRa & BLE Device detects the BLE beacon signal, and report to the LoRa Device.
The parameters setting, such as heartbeat period, LoRa work mode is adjustable per customers’
requirements.
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LoRaWAN 1.02 compliant
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2 On/Off
The tracker can be turned on/off by long period pressing the power button for 3 seconds. When
pushing the button to power off the tracker, the red light will last for three seconds then turn off,
when push the button to power on the tracker, the red light will flash for four times then turn off.
Press the button to check whether the tracker is working, if the green "S" status light blinks, it indicates
the tracker is working. The red battery light flashes during charging and sustains when charging
completed.
3. Product Specifications
Table 1: Product Specifications
Positioning Mode BLE4.0
Scan range 30m/50m
Protocol LoRaWan
Sensitivity -142.5dBm
Operating Current
Operating Temperature
Storage Temperature
Operating Humidity
Power Mode DC 5V
Communication Distance >1.5km in urban area
Application Context Asset Management
6mAh@BLE receiving
Max 140mA@19dBm
-40~+70℃
-50~+85℃
5%~95%
4. Application Information
4.1 Function
There’re two kinds of LoRa & BLE Device, one type is indoor Device powered by external power and no
battery equipped, and another type is outdoor Device powered by solar panel equipped with Lithium
battery or only battery equipped.
The Device supports both OTAA and ABP mode, both work in class a mode, the data rate is limited to start
from DR2 to transmit big payload. DevEUI, AppEUI and AppKey, or DevAddr, NwkSKey and AppSKey are
stored in the Device and are necessary for joining a network. DevEUI or DevAddr is labeled at the
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Message type. CS can use it to identify different uplink
messages.
Bit7 is the significant bit.
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back of the device. Lansitec will help to configure these parameters before shipping if necessary.
After power on and join the Lora network, Device will send registration message which include the
current parameters setting of the Device to Customer Server(CS). If CS doesn’t reply Device will
retry for 3 times before working in default mode.
Device starts to work after receiving acceptance response or no CS reply is received after 2 registration
trials. The Device reports the heart beat message to CS periodically. The duty cycle is configurable by
commands from CS. Coordinate acquisition and report period depends on the BLE scan results.
According to LoRaWAN specification, in Class A mode downlink response time is decided by uplink duty
cycle. To avoid relying the position message for downlink configure, Device uses heartbeat message to
control the downlink response time. The heartbeat period can be configured to be integral multiple of
30 seconds. The default period is 5 minutes. Heartbeat message also contains status information of the
Device. It can be used by CS to monitor the Device.
4.2 Application Scenarios
The Device is managed with the following general rules:
When registration request is received from the Device,
--If CS only wants the Device to work with default parameters, CS ignores the registration
message and waits for the periodically coordinate report.
Or CS should record the first-time configuration, acknowledge the request. If CS contains
some history configuration of the Deviceand mismatch occurred, CS should send the
new configuration to Device. Then Device updates and starts to work with these new
parameters.
After registration, configuration of the Device may be changed by user. CS needs to save the
new parameters and CRC16 of the parameters. In case of receiving registration when Device
reset or periodical heartbeat message, CS need to check if any configuration mismatch
occurred. If necessary, CS should send the new configuration to Device in next downlink
window.
4.3 Uplink Message
4.3.1 Register
TYPE field (the most significant byte)
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ADR (Adaptive Date Rate) status. The default value is
OFF.
Current working scheme which should be one of
SMODE.
0x1: AU920
0x2: CLAA
0x3: CN470
0x4: AS923
0x5: EU433
0x6: EU868
0x7: US915
SMODE field
0x01: AU920
0x02: CLAA
0x04: CN470
0x08: AS923
0x10: EU433
0x20: EU868
0x40: US915
2: B mode
3: C mode
4: D mode
5: E mode
6: All frequency sweep
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Data scheme supported by Device.
This field is preserved by Lansitec and will be
configured before shipping. For European
market, the default value is EU868, for China
market, the default value is CN470, for
Southeast Asia market, the default value is
AS923, for America market, the default value is
US915. Currently only support one kind of
mode.
POWER field
CFG field
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Configured transmit power. The default
value depends on the Device working mode, it’s
always the biggest one of the allowed
power. For example, if the mode is EU868, the
default value of POWER should be 14dbm.
(Unit: dBm)
Reserved for future use. If MODE is CLAA, it
indicates the frequency sweep mode of
the Device:
1: A mode
The period of position report, unit 5s. 0 means
OFF. (Big endian) The default value is 10s.
The period of Heartbeat message, unit 30s.
Heartbeat can’t be disabled. The default value is
10.
CRC16 of previous fields with TYPE bits set to 0, the
polynomial is . CS only need
to compare this data field with the CS stored one
to judge whether configuration changed.
Message type, CS can use it to identify different
uplink messages.
Version of the message type, current version is 1.
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Data Rate(DR0~DR15). The default value is DR2.
If ADR is disabled, the Device will work in this
data rate.
POS field
The Device will start BLE scanning several seconds before the end of every scan period, the default value
is 3 seconds, which is configurable. Besides, scan period and send period are different, the purpose is to
reduce the send delay, that’s because in some situation the outdoor Device may be configured to detect
every 30 minutes or one hour, if still only send the data at the end of scan period, it will take hours to
send all the beacons once there’re tens of beacons. To solve this issue, the Device will check the scan
period every time, if scan period is more than 5 minutes, after it sending the data at the end of scan
period, it will go on checking the buffer, if still having beacons not sent it will launch another
transmission 10 seconds later till all the beacons are sent.
HB field
CRC field
Default value of Device configuration depends on specific products.
4.3.2 Heartbeat
TYPE field
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