Epiroc EMI-1058 Mobilaris Companion WiFi User Guide
- May 15, 2024
- Epiroc
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Epiroc EMI-1058 Mobilaris Companion WiFi
Product Information
Specifications
- Product Name: Mobilaris Companion WiFi
- Model: EMI-1058 Rev 2
- Functionality: Wireless companion device
Product Usage Instructions
Initial Deployment
To deploy the Mobilaris Companion WiFi, follow these steps:
Deployment Procedure
- Prerequisite: Ensure all necessary components are available.
- Procedure: Follow the step-by-step deployment guide provided in the manual.
Factory Reset of Tag
To perform a factory reset on the tag, follow these steps:
Configuration options: Access the configuration menu to reset the tag.
Important Safety Instructions
Ensure to follow these safety guidelines for battery usage:
- Avoid exposing the device to extreme temperatures.
- Do not attempt to repair the device yourself.
- Dispose of the battery and electronic accessories properly.
FCC Statements and RF Exposure Warning
The Mobilaris Companion WiFi complies with FCC regulations regarding RF
exposure.
Please adhere to the following guidelines:
- The device should not cause interference with other devices.
- The device must accept any interference that may occur during operation.
FAQ
- Q: What should I do if my device’s battery is damaged?
A: If you suspect damage to your device’s battery, stop using the device immediately and seek professional assistance for repairs.
WARNING: Battery safety
Your device uses rechargeable battery (non-user-replaceable battery). Improper
use of your device’s battery may result in fire or explosion. Do not heat,
open, puncture, mutilate, or dispose of your device or its battery in fire or
a hot oven. Do not leave or charge your device in direct sunlight for an
extended period of time. Doing so may cause damage or melt the battery.
Leaving a battery in an extremely high temperature surrounding environment can
result in an explosion or the leakage of flammable liquid or gas. A battery
subjected to extremely low air pressure may result in an explosion or the
leakage of flammable liquid or gas. Epiroc recommends that you seek
professional assistance for all other device repairs, and that you use caution
if undertaking do-it-yourself repairs. Opening and/or repairing your device
can present electric shock, device damage, fire, and personal injury risks,
and other hazards.
This marking on the product indicates that the product, battery and it’s
electronic accessories (e.g charger, USB cable) should not be disposed of with
other household waste.
FCC statements and RF exposure warning
§ 15.19 Labeling requirements. 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. § 15.21 Information to user. Any Changes or modifications not
expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the
user’s authority to operate the equipment. § 15.105 Information to the user.
Note: 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 technician for help.
The SAR limit for FCC is 1.6 W / kg averaged over one gram of tissue. The Mobilaris Companion WiFi model device types (FCC: 2A93V-466F) were also tested against these values. The highest SAR values reported for the accessory worn on the body is 0.73 W/kg. This device has been tested for typical operations using the accessory worn on the body with the rear part of the product kept at 5 mm from the body. To maintain compliance with FCC requirements, use accessories that maintain a separation distance of 5 mm between the user’s body and the back of the product. The use of belt clips, cases and similar accessories shall not contain any metal components as a whole. The use of accessories that do not meet these requirements cannot meet the requirements of FCC, and should be avoided.
IC (Industry Canada) Statement
This device contains licence-exempt transmitter(s)/receiver(s) that comply
with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s licence-exempt
RSS(s).
Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
- This device may not cause interference.
- This device must accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device.
The SAR limit for Industry Canada is 1.6 W / kg averaged over one gram of tissue. The Mobilaris Companion WiFi model device types (IC: 29959-466F) were also tested against these values. The highest SAR values reported for the accessory worn on the body is 0.73 W/kg. This device has been tested for typical operations using the accessory worn on the body with the rear part of the product kept at 5 mm from the body. To maintain compliance with RSS-102 requirements, use accessories that maintain a separation distance of 5 mm between the user’s body and the back of the product. The use of belt clips, cases and similar accessories shall not contain any metal components as a whole. The use of accessories that do not meet these requirements cannot meet the requirements of RSS-102, and should be avoided.
ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa)
TA 2023-0522
APPROVED
Mobilaris Companion WiFi
The Mobilaris Companion WiFi, PN 3049900039, is a rechargeable Wifi personal
and vehicle tracking tag developed for mining and tunneling applications. The
tag can provide positioning using both WiFi Access Points (AP) and Bluetooth
Low Energy (BLE) beacons. The battery is rechargeable, either via standard
USB-C charger or a separately sold charging rack. It has an accelerometer for
battery saving features and movement detection. A multi-purpose push button
can be used for Emergency Acknowledge or other custom features. The tag can be
provisioned to personnel using built-in NFC. Emergency notification to user
with a vibration motor, strong LED and buzzer.
Functionality
In operation mode, the tag is reporting AP/BLE readings by scanning WIFI APs
and BLE beacons to the configured broker. Scan duration and interval for BLE
is configurable and by default one second and five seconds respectively. The
report interval is by default 10 seconds but can be configured to any value
above three seconds. In between the reporting of AP/BLE readings, the tag is
sleeping and will wake up on network activity or pressed button. Accelerometer
is used to detect any movement and in the absence of movement, the tag will
decrease the report interval to 10 minutes.
LEDs
Short description on how the LED is used follows here:
- A tag connected to a charger has yellow led on when charging and green when fully charged.
- A tag that is active (movement detected) and connected to the network will blink short green when waking up from sleep.
- A disconnected tag blink short red on wakeup
- A tag that is connected to the network and inactive (no movement detected) will blink short yellow on wakeup
- When successfully connected to network, the tag is blinking green four times
- When starting an over the air update (OTA), a yellow led is turned on and blinks green after successful OTA
- If BLE firmware is downloaded, the blue led turn on during installation of firmware and turn green on successful or red on failure
OTA updates
The tag performs OTA updates after a factory reset or on a periodic interval,
default is 25 hours. During the OTA, the tag requests the backend if there is
any new configuration, new files or new firmware to be downloaded. If yes, the
files are downloaded and saved/installed, if no, the tag go back to normal
operation mode To add or change profile for a tag, go to the Profile tab in
the admin pages, see section 3.1.2. And add/change profile, remember to assign
the profile to the tag by specifying MAC-address. During a OTA, no other tasks
are performed such as BLE or AP scanning/reporting. Time spent on OTA depends
on resources in backend available for download, approximated time spent is
listed below
- No update/profile: ~a few seconds
- WIFI Software/certificates: Up to 5 seconds
- BLE Software: ~1 min including installation of software onto the device
When updating BLE software over OTA, the USB must be disconnected.
Emergency
Emergency mode is by default enabled on the tag. When an emergency is
triggered in Mobilaris Emergency Support, the tag receives a notification. The
tag then sends a delivery message notifying that the emergency message has
been received to the tag. Then the tag starts a vibration, a buzzer and a
stronger white LED, to notify the user that there is an ongoing emergency. By
pressing the button, the user sends an acknowledge message to the emergency
application and the vibration/buzzer and white LED stops after the acknowledge
message has been sent.
Alarm
When an Alarm is sent from the Zone Based Messages feature in the Mobilaris
Situational Awareness application, the alarm is triggered in the tag. The
alarm signal is the vibration motor and buzzer running in a periodic sequence
and a white/blue LED sequence. By pressing the button, the tag will stop the
alarm signal.
Initial Deployment
The default configuration after manufacturing makes the tag connecting to the
Network name (SSID) “Epiroc-tag-wifi” with Password “Error-Grumbling9-Chevy”.
When successfully connecting to mobile Hotspot running Mobilaris TagConfig,
the tag connects to the server in the TagConfig application and downloads
initial configuration and certificate needed to connect to the onsite SSID and
cluster.
Figure 1 – Deployment procedure overview
Deployment procedure
This section describes how to deploy Mobilaris Companion Wifi tags using
the Mobilaris TagConfig application running on an Android device.
Prerequisite
- Android device with Mobilaris TagConfig installed and possibility to enable mobile Hotspot
- Parameters for SSID, Password for SSID, domain name and certificate to access the cluster hosting the Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™ system
- Charged Companion Wifi tag Connected to a charger (USB or charging panel)
- Default tag configuration (profile) added in Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™ Admin page, see section 3.1.2.
Procedure
Go to Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™ Admin page. Under Positioning Devices ->
Wifi Tags -> Profiles, create a new profile by pressing New (1) or edit an
existing profile by pressing (2).
Update parameters under tabs “General” and “Companion Wifi”, figure 3. Select
a default profile that tags connecting to Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™ will
get, press the arrow besides the Default profile (3) and select the profile
you want as default.
Figure 2 – Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™ Admin page
Figure 3 – Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™ New profile
Open Mobilaris TagConfig on your Android device and choose button CONNECTED
TAGS.
Figure 4 – Mobilaris TagConfig Startup view
Fill fields with requested parameters and add certificate. Note: “Cluster
Domain Name” should be domain name without a prefix like domain-
name.com.
Press “Start”. If Hotspot is not enabled, you will be asked to enable the
Hotspot as shown in figure 5.
Figure 5 – Mobilaris TagConfig Enable Hotspot View
Enable Hotspot on your mobile device with credentials:
Hotspot Name (SSID): Epiroc-tag-wifi
Password (SSID Key): Error-Grumbling9-Chevy
Figure 6 – Mobile device Hotspot settings
Return to TagConfig and you will now see the deployment view, figure 7.
Figure 7 – Mobilaris TagConfig Deployment view
If the tag is new from factory the tag will automatically connect to the
Hotspot if the tag is charged and connected to a charger. If the tag is being
redeployed in a new environment the tag needs to be reset, see section 3.2.
The tag will vibrate when successfully reset and after a while connect to the
Hotspot. Once the tag is connected to the Hotspot it will start downloading
initial configuration (profile) and certificate. During this process, the tags
MAC-address is shown in the application as shown in figure 8.
Figure 8 – Mobilaris TagConfig connected tag view
When tag is done with the download, the MAC-address turns green, figure 9. Tag
will now disconnect form the hotspot and connect to the onsite network (SSID)
and cluster to download the profile that’s been prepared earlier in the
Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™ Admin page. The tag will now be visible in
Mobilaris Mining Intelligence™.
Figure 9 – Mobilaris TagConfig successful deployment view
After a while tags MAC-address turns grey and is removed from the list.
Counter shows the number of tags deployed in this session.
Factory reset of tag
To reset tag:
- Connect USB charger
- Press button under the plastic casing. The reset button is located as marked in the figure 10 below
- After a successful reset, the tag will run a short vibration sequence.
Figure 10 – Mobilaris Companion WiFi reset
Configuration options
Parameters on the Companion Wifi Tag that can be configured from the Admin pages.
- SSID: WiFi network SSID tag connects
- Security Type: WiFi network encryption, Open, WEP or WPA2
- Security Key: WiFi network password
- Domain name: Domain name to broker and backend. Should be domain name without a prefix like domain-name.com
- Report interval: Report interval of WIFI/BLE readings to broker, in seconds
- Maintenance interval: Period between two OTA opportunities, in seconds
- Telemetry interval: Interval of telemetry reporting to broker, in seconds
- AP RSSI Threshold: Lower RSSI threshold for reporting AP reading, in dBm
- BLE scan period: Interval of BLE scans, in seconds BLE scan duration: Duration of a BLE scan, in 1.28s unit
- BLE filter: Enable/Disable BLE scan filter
- TLS enabled: Enable/Disable secure communication
- NTP server: NTP server for time synchronization, leave empty to use default
- CSI Enabled: Use CSI
- CSI Token: Use CSI token, leave empty if using default
- Emergency Enabled: Enable emergency on device
- Broker user: Username for connecting to broker, leave empty to use default
- Broker password: Password for connecting to broker, leave empty to use default
Abbreviations
- AP – Access Point
- BLE – Bluetooth Low Energy
- LED – Light Emitting Diode
- NFC – Near Field Communication
- OTA – Over The Air
- SSID – Service Set Identifier
- USB – Universal Serial Bus
- WiFi – Wireless Fidelity
Revision History
| Rev | Date | Changed by | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024-02-09 | Adam Strandelin | First issue |
| 2 | 2024-02-16 | Adam Strandelin | Updated FCC statement |
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References
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