robustel R3000 LG Series LoRa Gateways User Guide

LORIOT APP for R3000 LG Series
LoRa Gateways
Configuration Guide

Background

The LORIOT application for Robustel R3000 LG Series gateways provides a quick and easy integration giving customers an off the shelf solution for building LoRaWAN® networks at a price/performance ratio that has not previously been available.
LORIOT are one of the world-leading LNS (LoRaWAN Network Server) providers with an impressive catalogue of successful deployments globally.
As a very high-volume manufacturer of 3G/4G routers and gateways, Robustel have commercial advantages unobtainable by many of their peers in the LoRa® Gateway market and are consequently able to offer both Indoor & Outdoor Industrial grade, high reliability Gateways at very competitive pricing.

Using a tried and tested LoRa Gateway + LNS combination helps to significantly re-risk the building of new LoRa networks and provides piece of mind that the companies involved have significant prior knowledge of each other’s products making effective and detailed technical support easier to come by.

Requirements

1. Go to www.robustel.com
2. Select “contact us” and request the latest LORIOT APP.
3. Alternatively, request the APP from your Robustel sales contact

Connecting the R3000 LG to LORIOT Platform

1. Install LORIOT APP in the APP center of RobustOS and enter the URL of your LORIOT server and select enable.
   
   Common LORIOT hosted Server URLs:
   Africa
   AF1 – Cape Town, South Africa
   Americas
   SAl – Sao Paulo, Brasil
   US1 – California, USA
   US2 – New York, USA
   Asia
   API. – Singapore
   AP2 – Tokyo, Japan
   AP3 – Mumbai, India
   CN1 – Shenzhen, China
   Europe
   EUI – Frankfurt, Germany
   EU2 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
   EU3 – Madrid, Spain
   UK1 – London, United Kingdom
   Pacific
   AUI – Sydney, Australia

Figure 2.3 – If you are using a private server address, then turn on the Private Server button and enter the Gateway software URL
About Gateway software URL: It can be requested from the Loriot platform.

2. Ascertain the default gateway ID in R3000 LG by viewing “Interface->LoRa”
   
   Note: If you cannot connect to the LORIOT platform using the default Gateway ID, please check the MAC address that the APP is using via the syslog as follows.
   

3. Go to the LORIOT server and add R3000 LG gateway having created a new Network or using an existing network. The R3000 LG must be a member of a “Network”.
   
   Note: There is no need for you to enable the native LoRa interface and set the server information because the LORIOT APP will reference the internal LoRa configuration.
   Figure 2.6 – Standard LoRa interface of R3000 LG, LORIOT APP runs independently

4. Input MAC address of gateway interface for LORIOT platform registration.
   
   Please note that FFFE or FFFF is inserted after the first 6 characters of the MAC to make it a 64bit LoRaWAN gateway EUI.
   For example, if 34:FA:40:13:FD:BE is the interface MAC, then 34FA40FFFE13FDBE should be the gateway EUI on the LORIOT platform.

5. If everything goes well, you will see R3000 LG online with LORIOT proprietary packet forwarder version info on the platform per below.
   

Connecting LoRaWAN Node/Sensor to the

LORIOT Platform

1. Set up the LoRaWAN gateway frequency channel list correctly. The example below is AS923 AS2.
   

2. In the LORIOT platform, create a new application and click the “Enroll Device” tab.
   

3. Enter Title name, and get the “DevEUI”, “AppEUI” and “AppKey” from Toolbox.
   

4. Choose Device and you will see more details of the status and the configuration of the LoRaWAN node.
   

Guangzhou Robustel Co., Ltd.
Add: 501, Building 2, No. 63, Yong’an Avenue,
Huangpu District, Guangzhou, China 510660
Tel: 86-20-82321505
Email: support@robustel.com
Web: www.robustel.com

References

• 4G/LTE/5G/Cellular Routers, Gateways and Modems for Industrial IoT - Robustel

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