User's Guide

17 September 2021

NG Series Industrial Wireless Gateway User Guide

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Doc No. 20DD1980

Revision 4

User Interface

The NG Series Industrial Wireless Gateway provides a web-based user interface to configure and monitor

all the devices connected to a network. To start managing the wireless field device network, you first need

to configure the gateway.

In addition, the user interface can be used for performing the following tasks.

• Network maintenance

• Device configuration and maintenance

• Operator activities

You must login to be able to access the gateway functions.

Network

When the Network section is selected, a device tree, tab control and property list is displayed.

The device tree displays the System Manager, Access Point and VP Series 2000 Field Devices (Sensors and

Repeaters).

Depending on the tree entry selected, the tab control and property list displays different information.

System Manager

When the System Manager is selected, the tab control displays the Network Health, GCI Stats, Signal

Strength and Event History. The property list displays the Provision, Logging and Operational Settings.

Network Health

The Network Health tab displays joined Routers, Router+IOs and IO devices packet transmitted and lost,

reliability of its published process values as well as join count of each device.

GCI Stats

The GCI Stats tab displays external GCI client connections, their respective start times, data transmitted

and received as well as number of leases used. GCI client connections are limited to two concurrent

connections.

Signal Strength

The Signal Strength tab displays all Level one Routers, RouterIOs and IO devices, as well as their respective

transmitted and received success and fail count. The respective signal strength and quality is also

displayed.