Cambium Networks Cambium-AeroScout Healthcare Solution Configuration User Guide

Cambium-AeroScout Healthcare
Solution Configuration
User Guide

Cambium-AeroScout Healthcare Solution Configuration

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Introduction

STANLEY Healthcare provides a Unified Visibility solution that utilizes the power of Cambium Networks Enterprise Wi-Fi 6 Access Points to provide significant business and patient experience benefits through Real-time Location, Active RFID, sensors, and telemetry. Cambium Networks Wi-Fi 6 APs provide the network bandwidth necessary for STANLEY Healthcare solutions to accurately track the real-time location and status of valuable assets such as equipment or people. Cambium Networks Wi-Fi products provide a single, unified wireless network throughout the healthcare facility. STANLEY Healthcare’s solutions leverage the Wi-Fi network to enable customers to accurately track and monitor valuable assets ultimately using this visibility information to make everyday decisions, improve operational efficiency and provide security for patients and staff.
Cambium Networks empowers millions of people with wireless connectivity worldwide. Our wireless portfolio is used by commercial and government network operators as well as broadband service providers to connect people, places, and things. With a single network architecture spanning fixed wireless and Wi- Fi, Cambium Networks enables operators to achieve maximum performance with minimal spectrum. End-to-end cloud management transforms networks into dynamic environments that evolve to meet changing needs with minimal physical human intervention. Cambium Networks empowers a growing ecosystem of partners who design and deliver gigabit wireless solutions that just work.
Cambium Networks provides industry-leading solutions used in many areas such as:

• Education
• Enterprise
• Federal Government
• Healthcare
• Hospitality
• Industrial
• Oil and Gas
• Public Wi-Fi
• Retail
• Service Providers
• Smart Cities

Solution Overview

STANLEY AeroScout systems use Cambium Wi-Fi networks as core infrastructure. All wireless visibility solutions require Wi-Fi infrastructure devices to pass wireless signals from tags or sensors to the network. AeroScout enhances this capability by enabling real-time tracking of thousands of tagged devices and people, e.g., staff and at-risk patients. Using Cambium Networks wireless APs as wireless readers, organizations can locate and track their assets and people with AeroScout tags and software using a single unified wireless network for data, voice, and location services.
Cambium Networks Enterprise Wi-Fi Access Points
Cambium Networks XV APs, cnMaestro X, and XMS-Cloud management systems deliver Enterprise-grade Wi-Fi with Single Pane of Glass visibility to manage 802.11 Wi-Fi. Edge intelligent 802.11 APs are RF aware, provide seamless roaming and make intelligent decisions at the most impacted access point. Edge intelligent networks support more devices and more content, at higher bit rates.
Cambium Networks Wi-Fi 6 APs, the XV3-8, and XV2-2 deliver all the features available in the 802.11ax specification such as:

• Multi-user OFDMA – more efficient for small to large packet sizes
• 8×8 MU-MIMO – offers targeted beam steering and 2x capacity
• Spectrum reuse – allows multiple networks to overlap
• Target Wait Time – schedules sleep and wake uptime
• Preamble 3dB and longer OFDM symbol – extend the outdoor range
• 1024 QAM and 2.4GHz band operation

XV3-8–Indoor Wi-Fi 6 Access Point
The XV3-8 features a total of five radios to deliver a next-generation network with edge services with high capacity and high density. Three data radios can be configured as two 5GHz 4×4 plus one 2.4GHz 4×4, or the two 5GHz radios can be combined into a single 5GHz 8×8 radio with the maximum power and performance of the 802.11ax standard. A dedicated network scanning radio provides continuous network monitoring to enhance security protocols, detailed network reports, and automatic RF optimizations. Add the Bluetooth Smart 4.1 IoT radio for BLE-based location services and you get a multi-radio, highcapacity Wi-Fi 6 AP designed for the most demanding networks in the enterprise, healthcare, education, retail, and public venues.
XV2-2–Indoor Wi-Fi 6 Access Point
The XV2-2 is a dual-radio Wi-Fi 6 access point designed to deliver next- generation networks with edge services at a value-based price. While delivering all the features available in the 802.11ax specification, the XV2-2 is fully backward compatible with existing Wi-Fi technology and enables a massive growth of low power, low-bitrate IoT devices to add infrastructure intelligence into any market.
XMS-Cloud Management System
XMS-Cloud is a powerful management solution for deploying and managing Cambium Networks Wi-Fi and Switching portfolios with complete control and visibility. It provides zero-touch activation to automate software upgrades, patches, and licenses. IT enjoys the benefits of a superior console interface where all services are integrated at no extra cost. The system supports Wi-Fi devices, including IoT endpoints, regardless of the operating system. DPI technology lets network administrators control more than 2,400 applications at the network’s edge where they can be allowed, blocked, or throttled to achieve predictable performance, even under heavy network load. Integrated into the system is EasyPass, a suite of 8 different access portals which include Microsoft and Google portals, On-boarding, Guest, and Personal Wi-Fi portals.
cnMaestro X Management System
cnMaestro X is a simple, yet sophisticated cloud-first, next-generation network management solution for Cambium Networks wireless and wired solutions. The system can run in the cloud, or onsite, in your existing VM environment. cnMaestro X offers single-pane-of-glass management to deliver secure, end- toend network and wireless lifecycle management with zero-touch provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities. Advanced features include an MSP Dashboard, Restful APIs, Webhooks, Support for Software Defined Radios, Support for 1,024 Enterprise Wi-Fi PSKs, and Advanced Captive Portal capabilities including paid gateways. The powerful set of tools simplifies operations, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance.
Active RFID tags
Active RFID tags contain their batteries and transmit their ID signal at regular intervals, without requiring an external trigger. Tags send a periodic beacon that is used to identify their location.
AeroScout Location Engine
AeroScout utilizes a Location Engine to determine the position of Wi-Fi tags. The Location Engine delivers accurate and reliable location data for assets and people with STANLEY Healthcare Wi-Fi tags.
The AeroScout Location Engine determines location using signal strength measurements (RSSI) collected by the Cambium Wi-Fi APs, which can simultaneously serve location sensors and provide network access. It is an integral component of STANLEY Healthcare’s AeroScout RTLS solutions.

Configuration – Cambium and AeroScout

Configuring the AeroScout server in XMS-Cloud

• Open a Profile and go to the Access Points page and click the Show Advanced link.
  

• Go to AeroScout, select Yes, and enter the Server IP address and Port for your AeroScout server. (Port 12092 is the default).
  

Configuring the AeroScout server in cnMaestro X

• On the cnMaestro X Home page, go to Shared Settings > AP Groups and WLANs
  

• Open an existing AP Group
  

• On the Services tab, locate and expand the Stanley-AeroScout section
  

• Select Enable Wi-Fi, Enable Bluetooth, and enter the IP address of the AeroScout server.
  

Configuring the Cambium AP Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)

• AeroScout commands available on the AP
  o ble-tag – Run the command to send the RFID tag information to the AeroScout RTLS Engine via BLE
  o wifi-tag – Run the command to send the RFID tag information to the AeroScout RTLS Engine via Wi-Fi
  o server – IP address of the AeroScout Location Engine
  o server-port – port the Location Engine will listen to incoming location reports default UDP port is 12092
  

• AeroScout sample configuration
  

• Run the SAVE command to apply the configuration

Configuring AeroScout Engine Manager

• Open AeroScout Engine Manager.

• On the map, right-click the physical location of the AP and select Add > Add Access Point. The Access Point Properties dialog window opens.
  

• Enter the following information
  Name| Give the AP a recognizable name
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  Vendor| Select Cambium Networks from the drop-down menu
  IP Address| Enter the AP’s IP address
  MAC| Enter the AP’s MAC addres

o Co-ordinates In Z Co-ordinates, enter the height at which the AP is mounted in meters.

• Click OK

Version Compatibility and Configuration Suggestion

Firmware Version details

6.4-rx for BLE support (Coming soon)
cnMaestro X (On-Premises)| 3.0.4
cnMaestro X Cloud| Updated by Cambium
XMS-Cloud| Updated by Cambium

Supported TAG formats
Cambium and AeroScout joint solutions work with both IBSS and WDS tag formats.
Note
The CCX format is not supported.
Supported AP Models
Cambium Networks XV2-2 and XV3-8.
Cambium AP configuration suggestions

• OCS scan should be disabled
• A minimum of one WLAN should be enabled for AP to listen to TAGs
• Tags will work only on 2.4 GHz
• Schedule Access and Monitor Host features should be disabled if a single WLAN profile is configured
• When using Packet Capture on the home channel, Wi-Fi Tag messages may be dropped
• Wi-Fi Tag messages can be lost while using Spectrum Analyzer and Wi-Fi Analyzer

Cambium AP deployment suggestions
When mounting APs to the ceiling or walls, ensure that all the APs throughout the building are mounted at approximately the same height, and within the range of 2.5 – 3.5 meters off the ground. Since RTLS works by measuring the received strength of packets, APs should not be placed inside of ceiling tiles or in/behind solid objects. The physical orientation of the APs does not affect the accuracy, so they can be mounted in whichever way is the easiest.
Once the APs have been deployed, wireless coverage will need to be validated, which can be done by using a site survey tool such as Ekahau. For Wi-Fi location, the survey needs to confirm that there is at least an RSSI >=-67dBm and a Signal Noise Ratio (SNR) of 25 or higher to three APs at any point throughout the floorplan. Client devices that do not meet these guidelines may be difficult to locate accurately inside the network perimeter.

Troubleshooting

General

• If the AP does not show the status of “online”, verify that the AP IP address and MAC address are entered correctly in the Engine Manager.

• Run the below CLI commands to verify the AP IP and MAC address

• To verify the AP MAC address
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Command: Show version
  

• To verify the AP IP address
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Command: show IP interface brief.
  

Show/Debug commands on the AP

• CLI command to verify the rtls feature is enabled
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Command: show rtls aeroscout configuration
  

• CLI command to verify the Wi-Fi Tag packets are sent to the AES server
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Cdmmand: show rtls aeroscout wifi-tag-summary
  

• CLI command to verify the BLE Tag packets are sent to the AES server
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Command: show rtls aeroscout ble-tag-summary
  

• CLI command to verify the Tag message is seen on AP and sent to the AES server and to verify the format.
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Command: service debug rfmd logging-level trace
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Command: save
  

• Once the configuration is saved, the CLI command to view the tag messages
  cnMaestro X Remote CLI Command: service show debug-logs rfmd
  

Verification on the AES server
Run Wireshark on the AES server to verify the d5 message (tag report) received on the AES server.Stanley BLE tag advertisement packet.

Cambium Networks

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