User Manual

Packet Power™ Smart Power Cable User’s Manual

Smart Power Cable Indicator Lights and LED Display

All Smart Power Cables have three large alpha-numeric LEDs that provide for local

display of monitoring data and three small lights adjacent to the LEDs that provide

operating status information.

Installing the Wireless Ethernet Gateway

Each location in which Smart Power Cables are deployed must have one or more Packet

Power Ethernet Gateway(s) to gather data from the Smart Power Cables.

The Ethernet Gateway version 3 is the central Gateway by which all Packet Power

monitoring nodes (environmental and power) communicate. The following instructions are

intended to provide a high level overview of how to commission a Gateway module. Refer to

the support section of www.packetpower.com for additional support.

Gateway Placement

Gateway placement is critical. Gateway module(s) should be located 10-30 meters / 30-100 feet from

one or more monitoring nodes (ideally line of site). The network is designed as a mesh network

which means that the signal for distant nodes can be relayed through adjacent nodes until reaching