Installation Guide

Chapter 2 Installation
BarMate Installation Guide
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Installation guidelines
When installing the BarMate system, some devices should
be mounted and powered on before others. The following
guidelines indicate the order in which devices should be
mounted or powered.
• Mount the solar panels, antenna array, and COM
antennas before connecting them to their respective
devices.
• Power up the Gateway, launch the Management Centre
(MC) application, and then power up the SAM. Powering
up the devices in this order allows the SRDs to be
registered into the system. If a SAM is powered up
before the Gateway and the MC application are started,
the SAM will have to be powered down, and then
repowered in order for the SRDs to be registered in the
system.
• If there are multiple SAMs, power up the SAM closest to
an active Gateway first. When a SAM is powered up, it
must be in range of an active Gateway or another active
SAM that is in range of an active Gateway.
• Before powering all the SRDs (snapping them into their
mounting brackets), calibrate the SAM with a single
SRD. After the SAM is calibrated, the other SRDs can be
powered on. For more information about calibrating, see
“Configuring the SAM” on page 4.