robustel LORIOT Application for R3000 LG Series Gateways User Guide
- June 3, 2024
- robustel
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robustel LORIOT Application for R3000 LG Series Gateways User 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 catalogueof 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 bothIndoor&Outdoor
Industrial grade, high reliability Gateways at very competitive pricing.
Figure 1.1 – LoRaWAN stack enabled quickly & easily with the “LORIOT
APP”
Using a tried and tested LoRa Gateway + LNS combination helps to significantly re-risk the building of newLoRanetworksand provides piece of mind that the companies involved have significant prior knowledge of each other’s productsmaking effective and detailed technical support easier to come by.
Requirements
- Go to www.robustel.com
- Select “contact us” and request the latest LORIOT APP.
- Alternatively, request the APP from your Robustel sales contact
Connecting the R3000 LGtoLORIOT Platform
- Install LORIOT APP in the APP center of Robust OS and enter the URL of your LORIOT server and select enable.
_Figure 2.1 – App Center installation of LORIOT App
Figure 2.2 – Location of LORIOT APP and server settings once APP is installed_
Common LORIOT hosted Server URIs:
Africa
- AF1 – Cape Town, South Africa
Americas
- SAl – Sao Paulo, Brasil
- US1- California, USA
- U52 – New York, USA
Asia
- AP1 – Singapore
- AP2 – Tokyo, Japan
- AP3 – Mumbai, India
- CN1 – Shenzhen, China
Europe
- EU1- Frankfurt, Germany
- EU2 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- EU3 – Madrid, Spain
- UK1 – London, United Kingdom
Pacific
- AU1- 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.
Ascertain the default gateway ID in R3000 LG by viewing “Interface- >LoRa”
Figure 2.4 – Retrieving identifier required for LORIOT platform from
GUI
Note: If you cannot connect to the LORIOT platform using the default
Gateway ID, please check the MACaddressthatthe APP is using via the syslog as
follows.
Figure 2.4 – Debug log confirming correct MAC / identifier for use in
LORIOT platfor
Go to the LORIOT server and add R3000 LG gateway having createdanewNetwork
or using an existing network. The R3000 LG must be amemberofa“Network”.
Figure 2.5 – Select the R3000 LG from LORIOT Gateway menu scree
Note: There is no need for you to enable the native LoRa interface and set the server information becausetheLORIOT APP will reference the internal LoRa configuration.
Figure 2.6 – Standard LoRa interface of R3000 LG, LORIOT APP runs independently.
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 LoRaWANgateway EUI.
For example, if 34:FA:40:13:FD:BE is the interface MAC, then 34FA40FFFE13FDBE should be the gatewayEUI ontheLORIOT platform.
If everything goes well, you will see R3000 LG online with
LORIOTproprietarypacket forwarder version info on the platform per below.
Figure 2.7 –R3000 LG correctly configured on LORIOT platform
Connecting LoRaWAN Node/Sensor to the LORIOT Platform
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Set up the LoRaWAN gateway frequency channel list correctly. The example below is AS923 AS2.
Figure 3.1 – RF Frequency section of R3000 LG settings -
In the LORIOT platform, create a new application and click the”Enroll Device” tab.
Figure 3.2 – Enroll device / add sensor process in LORIOT platform -
Enter Title name, and get the “DevEUI”, “AppEUI” and “AppKey”from Toolbox.
Figure 3.3 – Location of key parameters – DevEUI/AppEUI & AppKey – in LORIOT platform -
Choose Device and you will see more details of the status and the configuration of the LoRaWAN node.
Figure 3.4 – LoRa sensor / node view
Support
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
