Operation Manual

110NetBotz Appliance User’s Guide
Adding sensors to the network manually
The order in which you commission your wireless network is important.
To manually configure your wireless sensor network:
1. Connect the Coordinator to the NetBotz appliance. Note: In NetBotz v4.5, the extended address
(MAC) of the Coordinator is automatically added to the commission list.
2. Click Manual Add. In the Add Addresses dialog, scan or type the extended addresses (MAC) of
the Routers and End Devices into the commission list.
3. Click Apply Commission List to save it to the NetBotz appliance.
4. Click Configure Coordinator (Wireless Sensor Pod 180 only).
Add addresses
You can use a hand-held USB scanner with document capture capabilities to scan the MAC address bar
code on the label packaged with each USB Coordinator & Router, or the QR code on each Wireless
Temperature Sensor or Wireless Sensor Pod 180, directly into the “Add Addresses” dialog, accessed
from the Wireless Sensor Setup task in the Advanced View.
Alternatively, you can use any bar code or QR code scanner to save a list of MAC addresses to a text file
and copy and paste it into the dialog, one address per line, or enter the MAC addresses manually.
Some QR code scanners return the part number, serial number, and MAC address on one line:
XN:NBWC100U%SN:XXXXXX123456%MAC:00C0B70000XXXXXX. To add a device to your
wireless network, enter only the alphanumeric MAC address of each device in the “Add Addresses”
dialog in the Advanced View.
Once the MAC addresses have been added to the list, click Apply Commission List to save the list to
the NetBotz appliance.
Each time you add or remove extended addresses, you must apply the commission list to save the new
list to the NetBotz appliance. This does not restart the wireless network.
Configure Coordinator
You must configure the Coordinator only when Wireless Sensor Pod 180 is used as the Coordinator. To
configure the Wireless Sensor Pod 180 as the coordinator:
1. Select Configure Coordinator in the Wireless Sensor Setup window.
2. In the Serial Device Configuration window, identify the serial port ID for the sensor pod.
3. Select Wireless Sensor Pod 180 for the Device Type Installed.
4. Specify the Port Label.
5. Click OK.
The Coordinator will appear in the Alerting Sensors pane as device name C. The sensor pods in the
commission list will then join the network within one minute. Sensor pods powered by AC adapter will
join as Routers, and will appear in the Alerting Sensors pane as device name R; sensor pods powered by
batteries will join as End Devices, and will appear as device name.
Note: When you connect additional sensors to the Wireless Sensor Pod 180 devices on your wireless
network, data are reported to the Coordinator on the next data transmission cycle, not immediately.