samsara SG1 Site Gateway Adds Robus Installation Guide
- June 6, 2024
- Samsara
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samsara SG1 Site Gateway Adds Robus Installation Guide
samsara.com/activate.
samsara.com/support.
(1)
- a Plug the power cord into the Site Gateway.
- b Plug the power plug into a 110-120 VAC power outlet.
- c Power the Site Gateway on by the switch (on the back left of the Gateway).
(2)
- a Plug the ethernet cable into the Standalone port of the Gateway.
- b Plug the same ethernet cable into your network switch port that provides Internet over 443 (TLS) the back left of the Gateway).
(3)
Screw on the LTE Antennas to the back of the Site Gateway.
(4)
Verify power and network activity status lights on the front of the Site
Gateway:
- Power Off: Red
- Power On: Green
- Network Activity: Flashing Blue
- Disk Activity: Flashing Blue (Minimal)
(5) The Samsara Site Visibility solution is easy and flexible to deploy
in to pre-existing or new networks. The following diagrams will help you
identify how best to physically add your Site Gateway (SG) and Site Cameras to
your network.
During the install, login to your Samsara cloud dashboard and navigate to
Settings > Devices and select the Site Gateway you would like to configure. On
this page, you can also view diagnostics mid-install and adjust any settings.
There are two general configurations that you will likely choose between in
setting up your Site Visibility deployment:
Figure A – your internet access and cameras are in the same network.
Figure B – your internet access is in one network, and your cameras are
in another.
To simplify this, we’ll refer to the network where you have internet access as
your “Corporate Network” and the optional secondary network where your cameras
will reside as your “Camera VLAN.”
Visit samsara.com/activate to get started with setup.
Figure A
If your cameras are already in your corporate network, deploying the SG simply
requires an ethernet connection from the SG’s standalone port to your existing
corporate network. By default, the SG will acquire an IP address in the
corporate network via DHCP. Alternatively, a static IP may be configured via
the cloud dashboard.
Figure B
In the case that your cameras are in a separate Camera Network from your
Corporate Network, the SG can either join a pre-existing Camera Network or act
as a DHCP server and host a new Camera Network. Figures B.1 & B.2 further
illustrate these scenarios.
Figure B.1
SG acts as an interface that communicates with the Camera Network. If you
already have a pre-existing Camera Network, you may deploy your SG by
connecting the standalone ethernet port to your corporate network and
separately connecting any of the 8 ethernet ports on the SG’s switch to your
pre-existing Camera Network.
Both the standalone port and the 8 port switch can be configured to either
accept DHCP issued IP leases or have statically assigned IPs via the cloud
dashboard.
Figure B.2
SG acts as a configurable router. If you want to create a new Camera Network,
separate from the Corporate Network, the SG can act as a DHCP server. Connect
the SG’s standalone port to your Corporate Network to accept DHCP issued IP
leases, or assign a static IP through the cloud dashboard if needed.
Then, connect cameras directly to the 8-port switch of the SG. Additional
switches may be cascaded from the 8-port switch to support more than 8
cameras.
