M Labs Technologies PH01 User Manual

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PM-H

Vehicle Tracking Device

November28, 2017

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Contents

1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 3

2 Hardware Design....................................................................................................................... 4

2.1 Basic Hardware ................................................................................................................. 4

2.2 Basic RF Performance....................................................................................................... 6

2.3 Certification and Safety..................................................................................................... 6

3 Software Features ...................................................................................................................... 8

3.1 Basic Software .................................................................................................................. 8

3.2 Remote Update .................................................................................................................. 8

3.3 Auto Execute ..................................................................................................................... 8

3.4 Power Modes ..................................................................................................................... 8

3.5 Report ................................................................................................................................ 9

Report Queuing ......................................................................................................................... 9

Ack’ed Mode ............................................................................................................................ 9

Event Report Format ............................................................................................................... 10

3.6 Reset ................................................................................................................................ 10

Context Preservation ............................................................................................................... 10

3.7 Startup Banner ................................................................................................................. 10

4 Test Method ............................................................................................................................. 11

4.1 Hardware ......................................................................................................................... 11

4.2 Software Test ................................................................................................................... 11

5 Mechanical Structure(mm) To be Updated ............................................................................. 13

6 FCC Statement ........................................................................................................................ 13

7 IC STATEMENT ..................................................................................................................... 14

1 Introduction

ThePM-His a self-Contained vehicle tracking device that combines GPS location with GSM/GPRS/WCDMA connectivity. ThePM-H appears to a user or a server application as a single endpoint device. It can be queried, updated and configured either through a serial connection, or an over the air GPRS or WCDMA IP connection, or through SMS messaging. ThePM-Hpresents itself over these connections as an enhanced cellular modem with attached functional elements. These elements include:

 GPS location engine  1 General Purpose Bidirectional I/O (GPIO) pin  1 Relay drive pin output  1 1-Wire Bus Interface  3.3V Power out for Peripheral Sensors  Serial UART port  Input voltagesand Battery Voltage monitor  Timers  Watchdog lockup protection  Motion detection

Access to these elements and general-purpose interfaces is done through an extended AT command set as defined herein.

Application scene:

 This product will be designed based on the 2G or WCDMAwirelessdata/MT6276

Baseband chipset, which includes GPS functionality, ARM CPU and GPRS protocol. This baseband internal connection 8M serial flash, GSM 900M/1800M/GPS RF Transceiver, and RF Front end circuit.

The device will use one dual band antenna（GSM900&PCS1800）and one dedicate GPS

Items

Requirement

Baseband Chipset

RF 2G Transceiver

RF3235

RF 3G Transceiver

RF7411TR7

Memory

MCP_NAND 1Gb(x16) / mobile DDR

Air Interface

3G band support : Band2 and Band5

Antenna

Internal Antenna[850M&1900M]

GPS Antenna

Dedicate high performance ceramic antenna

Main/Aux/Solar inputs

Relay Drive (Open Drain ,500mA current)

GPIO1

1-Wire Bus Interface

Motion Detect

LED

3 LED’s (Red, Green, Orange)

Battery

> 250 days Standby

antenna.

2 Hardware Design

2.1 Basic Hardware

MT6276A

512Mb(x16) Supportfor WCDMA Class 12 GPRS, GPS

Frequency

2G band support :GSM850 and PCS1900 Support for 12 class GPRS

UIM requirement Interface

Voltage/Battery Monitor Build in battery manager Dedicate Timers Watchdog

Working T i me

No-UIM mode, GSM card connector optional UART TX UART RX

12V DC Input（1.2A max current)

3.3V Power out internal analog input scaled Supported No Supported GPS/Accelerometer

Built in battery（4400mAh Lion） >40 hours (Continuously On)

Power switch Power Cable color Power Cable connector type

No 12 colors 12pin

Off: No power or GPS subsystem fault

Green

GSM/GPRS

On: Indicates GPRS connection is made

Off: No power or GSM subsystem fault

Orange

battery

Orange LED is Flashing to indicate charging

Power Consumption

The PM-Hprovides support for specialized hardware features through extended AT commands. The features supported include the following.

< 5Watts

GPS

The major functionality of the GPS module is to compute the co rrelation results between the incoming signal and the selected PRN code based on certain Carrier Doppler Frequency, Code Doppler Frequency, code phase, carrier phase, and the particular satellite the module is tracking or acquiring.

GPIO

The GPIO pin, is presented to the external environment on the main connector. It is a general purpose bidirectional line capable of providing system interrupts to generate a report or drive logic levels to external devices. This line is 3.3V logic level input or output with transient voltage protection and internal pull-up resistor. GP1 is intended to use for a Door open sensor.

LED’s

Three LED status indicators are provided to verify correct installation and operation. The status LEDs are color coded and directly convey the status of the cellular and GPS subsystems as described in the table below. Their valid operation also indicates operational status and power.

LED Function Status

Red GPS

On: GPS satellites acquired and Locked Flash Slow: GPS satellite search is in progress

Connection

charging

The PM-H provides user control allowing the LEDs to be extinguished once installation is verified. This feature reduces power and fu rther conceals the PM-H Tracker from untrained parties wishing to defeat its operation.

UART

A UART port is provided for AT command and data interaction and optionally for connection to peripheral sensors

Relay Driver

A 500mA sink capable output pin is provided. This pin is meant to drive a relay coil indented to operate a door opening device.

Flash Slow: GPRS subsystem initialized but no connection Flash Fast: GPRS initialization in process

1-Wire Bus Interface

Remark

RX receive sensitivity conducted – TIS

Items

Requirement

The 1-Wire bus interface can be connected to senso rs that support the 1-wire serial protocol such as Temperature sensors or driver identification.

3.3V Power Out

3.3V Power output is available to po wer peripheral se nsors such a cargo sensor. The power is turned on only when the peripheral sensor is being read to save power.

Input Voltage and Battery Voltage Monitor

The Input Voltage monitorsand battery voltage monitor are internal analog inputs scaled such that the DC value of the voltage input pin to the PM-H system and internal battery voltage is measured. This value is scaled to span th e most significant 8 bits of the A/D and consequently covers a scale from 0 to 32V for Input Voltage and 0 to 9V for internal battery voltage

Timers

Timers resident on the GSM baseband chip generate periodic interrupts for power down wakeup, watchdog support, report generation and other timer related functions. Report timers are supported by related AT command and cause generation of periodic reports.

Watchdog

MT6276 chipset provide internal software Watchdog, and a physically dedicate Watchdog circuit requirement is optional.

Motion Detect

Configurable through AT commands the unit can go to a low power mode when the main power is removed until motion is detected. Upon wakening, a report can then be generated, and the GPS enabled to detect drive events.

2.2 Basic RF Performance

Items Requirements

TRP free space >= 20 dBm TRP free space TIS free space <= -104dBm TIS free space Antenna loss <= -3dB TRP-TX Power Conducted

Antenna Loss <= -3dB

2.3 Certification and Safety

Drop Design Temperature Range

Humidity:

1.2meter 6 direction standard drop test

-20 to 65C Operation

-40 to +85° C Storage 20% to 90% Operation 10% to 95% Storage

ISO16750-2-2010

FCC Certification

FCC 47 CFR Part 15 ,Part2,Part 22,Part 24

Altitude: Vehicle ISO Test

Others Operator Requirement ESD Requirement

-500 to +18,000m ISO7637-2-2004; ISO7637-3-2007; ISO10605-2008;

Industry Canada/ AT&T (optional) 10KV non-Conductive

3 Software Features

Items

Requirement

IP Stack

Upgrade Method

Remote update/ PC tool

Remote Update

Supported

Power Modes

Supported

AT Command

Supported

Report

Driver LEDs

GPS Status, WCDMA Status

Watch Dog

Supported

Reset

Soft reset

Startup Banner

Supported

3.1 Basic Software

Air Interface

GPRS Data

GPIO

GSM850, PCS1900, WCDMA Band II, WCDMA Band V，

GPS Supported Ipv4/IPV6

Supported；3000records

GPIO，LED，GPS，UART，3.3V out Interrupt for Door Open Detect

3.2 Remote Update

The PM-Hsupports OTA field upgrades of the PM-Hresident application. An over the air TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) connection is made over a UDP/IP connection. A replacement file is then transferred from a server to the PM-Hand that file replaces the previous application image.

3.3 Auto Execute

The Auto E xecute Utility copies the contents of fi le system.exf into system executab le RAM and executes it from there. This file is the factory default application. Another file named custom.exf can be loaded into the file system.

Auto Execute will look first for a file named update.exf and load and execute that in place of custom.exf if it exists. If update.exf execu tes successfully, th e previous copy of custom.ex f is deleted from the file system and update.exf is renamed to custom.exf.

3.4 Power Modes

The PM-H device supports several power modes that are set by the power mode command. In full power mode the GPS is active and the cellular subsystem will maintain a persistent cellular connection whenever service is av ailable. IP connection is maintained according to

the configuration of the device.

Power Mode

Cellular

GPS

Full Power (Track)

Listen

Off

The device can be put into several levels of low power mode whenever it runs on the internal backup battery, or if the external input voltage is low or if it is not movingdepending on how the unit is configured through AT commands.

Stealth Off Off

The device would return to full power whenever an event occurs that triggers a report. Those events include:

 Report timer  GPIO change  IP change  Battery threshold  Heartbeat  Watchdog  Power-up  Motion Detected

Any hardware or software reset will return the device to full power mode.

3.5 Report

The PM-H captures data and fo rms a report record with that data. A report is a data stru cture containing all of the sensory and other typically useful data on the device. Reports are generated in response to specified events, such as periodic timeout, speed threshold, geo-fence crossing, etc., or in response to a Repo r t Now command (AT+XRN).

Report Queuing

If a report trigger occurs while UDP connection is unavailable, it will be queued until connection becomes available and transmi tted at such time. The only way report(s) can be lost is if too many reports are queued and the report-queue is overflowing. In such case the earliest report(s) will be discarded. The size of the queue can be configured via the Report Queue (AT+XRPQ) command.

Ack’ed Mode

UDP is not a 100% reliable connection and o ccasional reports or co mmand/responses may be lost. Since all commands have respon ses, the server can repeat any command to which there is no response. In order to assure reliable reception of reports, Arsenal devices can be configured either in Normal or Ack’ed mode to send the reports. In the Normal mode the reports are simply sent “as is” with no a cknowledgment from the server. In the Ack’ed mode every report sent is expected to be acknowledged by the server by sending back an ACK message back. If acknowledgement is n ot received within the specified timeout, the report is

re-sent. If the report is not acknowledged after the specified number of attempts, it is queued. If acknowledgement is received after the report is queued (i.e. past timeout o f the last attempt), it is ignored. Report is not considered “complete” until its acknowledgement is received. Thus, if report X is sent and report X+1 is triggered while waiting for acknowledgement of X, repor t X+1 will be queued until such acknowledgement is received and only then sent. The Arrow will attempt to re-send queued report(s) every time a new report is triggered. If there is more than one report queued, the reports will attempt to be sent in the order of triggering and only once the report is acknowledged, the next report is attempted . This assures that rep orts are sent and received in order.

Ack’ed mode assures that all reports are recei ved, but adds ov erhead in time and data. Rep ort that is not acknowledged is sent again and eventually will be queued and sent again. The number and frequency of re-tries is configurable via the Report Acknowledgement command (AT+XRPA).

Event Report Format

Reports can be generated in either an ASCII repres entatio n of h ex or as actual bin ary encod ed hex. The reporting format is selected via Report Format (AT+XRPF) command. Note that whilethe logical content of the report is the same in both representations, the size for an ASCII report is twice the size of actual numbers of bytes compared to binary representation .

3.6 Reset

There are a number of resets availabl e on the device. Soft reset resets the baseband only by using an internal watchdog, while hard reset power cycles the whole device. Th ere is also an option to reset the GPS sub-system only.

Context Preservation

When a reset is caused by the Network Watchdog o r by the Reset command (modes 0,1), the context of the system is being preserve d and is restored after the reset. The co ntext includes all the periodic timers, the report q ueue, the odometer, etc. This allows to reset the unit as a troubleshooting measure either periodically or due to Network Watchdog without losing reports that are already in the queue or are pending on running timers. Note that the reset process may cause 1-2min of inaccuracy in the timers and should not be considered as very precise.

3.7 Startup Banner

After a reset a startup banner is printed through the UART only. The format and content of the banner shown below:

PROD: PUMA-H IMEI: 353782066499613 IMSI: 310410964436268 ICCID: 89014103279644362684

MDL: 3005R04

Baseband Function Test

BIN: 2.0.6 APP: 3.2.4 IO: 1.1.2 CFG: 0025 Puma/Jaguar-HSPA-KORE IP: "34.224.196.58",15030 LPORT: 17006 APN: C2.KOREM2M.COM SIM: Detected

Ready

4 Test Method

4.1 Hardware

Test Item Description

• Power Input Test

• Power Consumption and Current Test

• Heat Dissipation Test

• UAR T Stability Test

• GPIO Level T est

• LED Stability T es t

• Drop Down Test

• ESD T est

• High/Low Temperature Test

• Humidity Test

RF Test

• RF Performance Test

• GPS Performance Test

• Antenna Performance Test

4.2 Software Test

Test Environment Construct

 Message Test environment

1. USB dongle and PC as message server

2. Send message to PM-H  UDP T est environment

1. Connect dongle to PC and create dialup as ip server

2. PM-H create IP connection to server  UART Test environment

1. Connect PM-H to pc with com serial cable

2. Open Terminal tool and send at command

3. Response can be shown at terminal windo w

5 Mechanical Structure(mm) To be Updated

6 FCC Statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

-- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

-- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

-- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

-- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technicia n for help.

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. 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 undesired operation.

Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.

RF Exposure Warning Statements:

The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must be installed to provide a separation distance of at least 20 cm from all persons during the normal operations.

7 IC STATEMENT

This device complies with Industry Canada licence-exempt RSS standard(s). Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device. Le présentappareilestconforme aux CNR d'Industrie Canada applicables aux appareils radio exempts de licence. L'exploitationestautorisée aux deux conditions suivantes : (1) l'appareil ne doit pas produire de brouillage, et (2) l'utilisateur de l'appareildoit accepter tout brouillageradioélectriquesubi, mêmesi le brouillageest susceptible d'encompromettre le fonctionnement.

In order to avoid the possibility of exceeding the IC radio frequency exposure limits, human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20cm (8 inches) during normal operation.

Afind'éviter la possibilité de dépasser les limitesd'exposition aux fréquences radio de la IC

CNR102, la proximitéhumaine à l'antenne ne doit pas êtreinférieure à 20 cm (8 pouces) pendant

le fonctionnement normal.

M Labs Technologies PH01 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Remote Update

Power Modes

Report Queuing

Ack’ed Mode

Event Report Format

Context Preservation