Multitech MultiConnect Conduit Getting Started Manual

MultiConnect
Station IP67

Getting Started Guide for Versions 1.5 and 2.1

®

Conduit

TM

Base

MULTICONNECT CONDUIT IP67 BASE STATION GETTING STARTED GUIDE

MultiConnect Conduit IP67 Base Station Getting Started Guide

Models: MTCDTIP-xxx-266x-xxx, MTCDTIP-xxx-267x-xxx, MTCDTIP-xxx-270x-xxx, MTCDTIP-xxx-275x-xxx

Part Number: S000665, Version 2.0

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CONTENTS

Contents

Chapter 1 – MultiConnect® ConduitTM IP67 Base Station........................................................................................ 5

Installation..................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Advanced Information .................................................................................................................................................. 5

V2.1 Features ................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Chapter 2 – Getting Started with mLinux Models..................................................................................................... 7

Accessing the Terminal Interface .................................................................................................................................. 7

Setting Time Zone, Time, and Date............................................................................................................................... 7

Setting the Custom IP Address, Network Information, and Ethernet Internet Access ................................................ 9

Configuring the Cellular Connection ............................................................................................................................. 9

Starting Cellular Connection on Boot ......................................................................................................................... 10

Configuring the LoRa Network Server ........................................................................................................................ 11

Configuring the LoRa Packet Forwarder ..................................................................................................................... 12

Additional LoRa and mLinux Information ................................................................................................................... 12

Chapter 3 – Getting Started with AEP Models ........................................................................................................ 13

Logging in to AEP......................................................................................................................................................... 13

Setting the Password .................................................................................................................................................. 13

Setting Date and Time................................................................................................................................................. 13

Configuring PPP........................................................................................................................................................... 13

Setting Up PPP Authentication ................................................................................................................................... 14

Entering IP Address and Network Information........................................................................................................... 14

Configuring Access ...................................................................................................................................................... 14

Finishing Configuration ............................................................................................................................................... 15

Using DeviceHQ for Device Management................................................................................................................... 15

Chapter 4 – Specifications and Related Information............................................................................................... 16

MultiConnect Conduit IP67 Base Station Specifications............................................................................................. 16

All Models ................................................................................................................................................................. 16

LoRa Specifications.................................................................................................................................................... 16

-LAT1 Models ............................................................................................................................................................ 17

-LEU1 Models ............................................................................................................................................................ 18

-LEU1 Frequency Bands ............................................................................................................................................ 19

-LVW2 Models........................................................................................................................................................... 19

-LAT3 Models ............................................................................................................................................................ 20

-LVW3 Models........................................................................................................................................................... 20

Dimensions.................................................................................................................................................................. 22

V1.5 Power Draw ........................................................................................................................................................ 23

V2.1 Power Draw ........................................................................................................................................................ 23

LE910 Telit Transmission Output Power..................................................................................................................... 24

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LoRa Transmission Output Power............................................................................................................................... 25

868 Models ............................................................................................................................................................... 25

915 Models ............................................................................................................................................................... 25

I2C Addresses.............................................................................................................................................................. 25

IO Exp V2.1 Board ....................................................................................................................................................... 26

Chapter 5 – Regulatory Information....................................................................................................................... 27

47 CFR Part 15 Regulation Class B Devices ................................................................................................................. 27

FCC Notice................................................................................................................................................................... 27

Industry Canada Class B Notice................................................................................................................................... 27

Chapter 6 – Safety Notices ..................................................................................................................................... 29

EMC, Safety, and R&TTE Directive (RED) Compliance ............................................................................................... 29

Installation Safety ....................................................................................................................................................... 29

Warnings and Cautions ............................................................................................................................................ 29

Lithium Battery ........................................................................................................................................................... 30

User Responsibility...................................................................................................................................................... 31

Device Maintenance ................................................................................................................................................... 31

Vehicle Safety.............................................................................................................................................................. 31

Notice regarding Compliance with FCC, EU, and Industry Canada Requirements for RF Exposure........................... 32

Radio Frequency (RF) Safety ....................................................................................................................................... 32

Sécurité relative aux appareils à radiofréquence (RF)................................................................................................ 32

Interference with Pacemakers and Other Medical Devices ...................................................................................... 33

Potential interference............................................................................................................................................... 33

Precautions for pacemaker wearers ........................................................................................................................ 33

Chapter 7 – Environmental Notices........................................................................................................................ 34

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Statement .............................................................................................. 34

WEEE Directive.......................................................................................................................................................... 34

Instructions for Disposal of WEEE by Users in the European Union ........................................................................ 34

Restriction of the Use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) ............................................................................................ 34

REACH Statement ....................................................................................................................................................... 35

Registration of Substances........................................................................................................................................ 35

Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) ................................................................................................................ 35

Information on HS/TS Substances According to Chinese Standards (in Chinese) ...................................................... 36

Information on HS/TS Substances According to Chinese Standards ......................................................................... 37

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MULTICONNECT® CONDUITTMIP67 BASE STATION

Chapter 1 – MultiConnect® Conduit

IP67 Base

Station

The MultiConnect Conduit IP67 Base Station (MTCDTIP) is a LoRa IoT gateway device designed for outdoor
deployments.

Installation

An installation guide ships with the MCDTIP and is also available at www.multitech.com andwww.multitech.net.

Advanced Information

For additional information on the mLinux platform, go to

http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/mlinux/

For additional information on the AEP platform, go to http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/aep/

V2.1 Features

V2.1 refers to the Semtech reference design; the previous reference design was V1.5.

Models MTCDTIP xxx266x-xxx and xxx-267x-xxx are V1.5.

TM

Models MTCDTIP xxx270x-xxx and xxx-275x-xxx are V2.1.

The V2.1 hardware design differs from the previous V1.5 design in the following ways:

The custom, single purpose Semtech RF front-end ASIC was replaced by a popular wideband general
purpose single-chip RF front-end from Analog Devices – the AD9361. This change transitioned
Semtech's LoRa offering from a purely custom chipset to an SDR (Software-Defined Radio) architecture.

The Semtech SX1301 baseband processor chips were retained in the design, but now provide much
more limited functionality, essentially becoming hardware accelerator blocks whose purpose is to
detect and synchronize the preamble (fixed symbol sequence present at the start of every LoRa packet)
for incoming packets on multiple frequency slots with multiple spreading factors. This necessary
functionality (essentially multiple concurrent FFTs) was more economical in the original ASICs than in an
FPGA or a set of general-purpose DSPs.

Following a popular pattern for SDR architectures, a large FPGA (a lower-end, but still relatively large
Altera / Intel part) is at the center of the system, with all the other system components, including the
Analog Devices RF front-end, the Semtech SX1301 ASICs, and a set of TI OMAP-L138 ARM/DSP SoC chips
connected to it.

The DSP core of the TI SoCs are used for packet symbol detection, decoding, etc.
At system startup, the FPGA must first be configured from its associated SPI Flash memory device. The

same SPI flash device also contains code which will run on the TI DSPs. After the FPGA is configured, a
state machine within the FPGA reads this code from the Flash memory, loads it into the DSP memory
space, and starts the DSP.

The V2.1 design includes provisions to connect a 48-Channel Extension Board, which increases the
number of simultaneous receive channels from 16 to the US maximum of 64. Note that the current
LoRa V2.1 reference design allows only simultaneous transmit channels, provided by the two SX1301s
on the main V2.1 board only.

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The V2.1 design includes a GPS receiver module to provide timing synchronization between
geographically-dispersed gateways. The high-accuracy one-pulse-per-second (PPS) output from this
receiver module maintains an accurate internal 250 MHz (4 ns period) timing counter within the FPGA.
The GPS receiver and the associated high-speed counter were added specifically to enable a server­layer application to estimate the physical location of a node based on the Time Difference-of-Arrival
(TDOA) of the same packet transmitted by the node at multiple (at least three) gateways. This TDOA
geolocation scheme works successfully, but accuracy is limited by topography and the number of
gateways providing timing information. Multi-path (reflected) signals constitute the primary challenge
for this scheme since they arrive at different times based on the different path lengths.

For this initial V2.1 release:

V2.1 hardware supports geolocation.
To get the fine timestamp for geolocation, you will need the AES keys. These can be obtained

from Semtech, which has licensed the geolocation resolver software.
Multitech supplies the chip ID that can be used by the network service providers for obtaining

the AES keys.

The packet format of the LoRa V2.1 is not backward-compatible with the LoRa V1.5 packet format. Therefore,
packet processing at the server layer (which sends/receive packets to/from LoRa gateways) fails for V2.1 packets if
the code has not been upgraded to handle them. Our MultiTech server code has not been upgraded yet, and
therefore cannot be used to process LoRa V2.1 packets. Therefore, if the customer does not have additional
server-layer support, the MultiTech LoRa V2.1 gateway can only be used as a packet forwarder. Also, unlike the
previous LoRa V1.5 packet format (and packet processing source code), this information is not publicly available.
Only LoRa operators or service providers having NDA agreements with Semtech currently have the information
required for processing V2.1 packets.

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GETTING STARTED WITH MLINUX MODELS

Chapter 2 – Getting Started with mLinux Models

Accessing the Terminal Interface

After connecting Ethernet and power, access the terminal interface:

1. On your PC, configure a static IP address for the network interface that is connected to the device within

the following range:

192.168.2.2 - 192.168.2.254

2. Open an SSH connection.

Default IP address: (DHCP is disabled)

192.168.2.1

Default credentials for mLinux version 3: username:

root

and password:

root

Default credentials for mLinux version 4: username:

mtadm

and password:

root

3. Issue the following command in your PC’s terminal and then when prompted, enter the default password.

mLinux version 3:

ssh root@192.168.2.1

mLinux version 4:

ssh mtadm@192.168.2.1

If using Windows, do one of the following:

Install Cygwin and use the Linux instructions.
OR
Install Tera Term or Putty and open a new SSH connection on port 22 using the above defaults.

The device’s terminal prompt appears.

mLinux version 3:

root@mtcdt:~#

mLinux version 4:

mtadm@:~#

Setting Time Zone, Time, and Date

To set the time zone, date, and time:

1. Create a symbolic link from the zone info file for your location to /etc/localtime:

ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich /etc/localtime

2. Update the date and time to the current time:

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date "2016-12-11 14:58:01"

3. Update the hardware clock:

hwclock -u -w

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Setting the Custom IP Address, Network Information, and Ethernet
Internet Access

Network configuration is defined in /etc/network/interfaces.

1. To change the static IP, change the address and netmask fields in /etc/network/interfaces, (use vi or

nano).

2. To apply changes, either reboot the device or issue:

ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0

Note: You will lose your SSH session by doing this.

3. To enable DHCP with default settings, edit /etc/udhcpd.conf (using vi or nano) by entering, starting, and

ending IP addresses for DHCP range.

mlinux-dhcpd start

4. Issue this command to start DHCP:

mlinux-dhcpd start

Note: To stop or restart, issue:

mlinux-dhcpd stop

or

mlinux-dhcpd restart

5. To configure Internet access via the Ethernet port, modify /etc/network/interfaces as follows:

a. Add gateway 192.168.2.254 beneath the netmask line, where 192.168.2.254 is the IP address of

your network router.

b. To apply changes, either reboot the device or issue:

ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0

Note: You will lose your SSH session by doing this.

c. Test Internet access with ping 8.8.8.8.

Configuring the Cellular Connection

To establish a cellular data link, you must configure and initiate a PPP connection. Sample options, files, and chat
scripts are provided in the ppp peers directory /etc/ppp/peers. Anything specific to the network or connection
should be placed in one of these files. Global options should be placed in /etc/ppp/options.

1. Set up a cellular data connection.

Set "APN" to the APN for your cellular provider. (Not necessary for
Verizon SIMs)
$ mlinux-set-apn APN

# Dial the connection (using /etc/ppp/peers/xxx# config)
$ pppd call xxx#
(where xxx# is your radio, LNA3 for North America or LEU1 for Europe)

2. Use the Linux route utility to verify ppp0 is up.

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$ route
Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MetricRef Use Iface

default 33.140.12.180.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

33.140.12.18* 255.255.255.255UH 0 0 0 ppp0

192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 ethp0

The Linux ifconfig utility can be used to inspect the ppp0 interface details.

$ ifconfig ppp0

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

inet addr:33.140.12.18 P-t-

P:33.140.12.18 Mask:255.255.255.255

UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:106 (106.0 B) TX bytes:145 (145.0 B)

Additionally, you can view the pppd logs in /var/log/messages to see the modem dialing and assigned IP
address or errors if the connection was unsuccessful.

To Stop a PPP Connection

# send SIGTERM to pppd, which causes it to hang up and exit cleanly
$ killall pppd

Starting Cellular Connection on Boot

Automatically starting pppd on boot requires (1) setting the peer file to use and (2) telling the system to run the
ppp init script on boot.

1. To see the available peers files (leu1) to set the peer file, issue:

ls /etc/ppp/peers

2. Edit /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot (with vi or sudo) and change:

$PPPD call provider

to your desired provider (where xxx# is your radio, LNA3 for North America or LEU1 for Europe).

$PPPD call xxx#

3. Assuming you’ve already set your APN, manually start the init script and check your Internet connection

to test your change.

ppp_on_boot
$ /etc/init.d/ppp start

4. To set init script to auto start, issue:

$ update-rc.d ppp defaults

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5. Restart and test your connection.

Stop Automatic Start Up

To stop ppp from automatically starting, issue:

$ update-rc.d -f ppp remove

Configuring the LoRa Network Server

Note: This section applies to LoRaWAN V1.5 devices only.

To configure the LoRa Network Server:

1. Install the LoRa mCard. Refer to http://www.multitech.net/developer/products/multiconnect-

conduit-platform/accessory-cards/installing-an-accessory-card/.

2. Attach the LoRa antenna to the LoRa mCard.

3. Use the power cable to connect power to the Conduit and wait for the Conduit to boot up.

4. Log in to the console. Refer to http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/mlinux/getting-started-

with-conduit-mlinux/ if needed.

5. Issue these commands on the Conduit:

$ cp /opt/lora/lora-network-server.conf.sample /var/config/lora/lora­network-server.conf

6. Edit /var/config/lora/lora-network-server.conf and modify these settings as needed (use vi or nano).

GETTING STARTED WITH MLINUX MODELS

Field MTAC-LoRa-915 (NA & AU) MTAC LoRa-868 (EU)

lora["frequencyBand"]: "915" "868"

lora["channelplan"]: "US915 or "AU915" "EU868"

lora["frequencySubBand"]: (integer. 1 to 8) Not applicable

lora["frequencyEU"]: Not Applicable default 869500000

range: [863500000 - 867500000] and
869100000 - 869500000]

network["name"] Name of your LoRa network (string, 8-character minimum, case-sensitive).

network["passphrase"] Security passphrase for your LoRa network (string, 8-character minimum,

case-sensitive).

network["public"] Enable to use public SyncWord (0x34) and join window of 5 and 6 seconds.

7. Restart the network server.

$ /etc/init.d/lora-network-server restart

8. Start mosquitto client.

$ mosquitto_sub -t lora/+/+ -v

For advanced LoRa settings, go to http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/lora/conduit-mlinux-lora-

communication/conduit-mlinux-advance-lora-configuration/.

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Configuring the LoRa Packet Forwarder

1. Log in to the console, if you are not logged in.

2. Establish an Internet connection via Ethernet or cellular.

3. Edit the packet forwarder configuration as necessary by modifying /opt/lora/global_conf.json (version

2.1) or /opt/lora/local_conf.json (version 1.5) with vi or nano.
gateway_conf["server_address"] Set your LoRa network server address

gateway_conf["serv_port_up"] Set the up port used by your LoRa network server

gateway_conf["serv_port_down"] Set the down port used by your LoRa network server

4. Start the packet forwarder:

$ /etc/init.d/lora-packet-forwarder start

Additional LoRa and mLinux Information

For additional information, including how to configure LoRa devices to communicate with the MTCDTIP, visit

http://www.multitech.net.

For help using LoRa, go to: http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/lora/
For help using mLinux, go to: http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/mlinux/.
For additional information regarding configuration, go

to:http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/lora/getting-started-with-lora-conduit-mlinux/
For additional packet forwarder information, go to:

http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/lora/conduit-mlinux-convert-to-basic-packet-forwarder/

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