User Instructions

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and integrate it into the
databases at the utility end.
• Calibrate water meters
Field
Monitoring and
Diagnosis Tool
Monitors RF traffic.
Performs diagnostic
tests of meters, relays
and gateways.
• Display all RF messages
received (should we allow for
filtering parameters?)
• Invoke diagnostic tests for
IMUs, relays and gateways via
the RF interface.
• Reprogram IMU
communications parameters
(e.g., meter utility id, channel
number, power).
• Query for all meters on a
channel.
• Scan channels for a meter
• Download gateway error and
event logs via RF.
• Perform pings via the WAN
from a gateway to the utility
(for WAN problem diagnosis),
invoked via the RF interface?
Factory
Commissioning
& Test tool
Checks IMUs and
relays to make sure
they’re properly
programmed with the
correct Utility Serial
Number, produces
factory log, performs
noninvasive gateway
testing.
• Checks IMUs and relays for
correctly programmed Utility
Serial Number and default
channel
• Performs noninvasive gateway
test.
• Generates factory log.
• If the meter supports an
internal record of factory
commissioning, update that
record once tests and
configuration have been
completed.
Depot
Commissioning
tool
Connects specific IMU,
relay and gateway ids to
customer accounts and
locations. Permits
gateways, relays and
IMUs to be replaced
with identical units.
Interactive
Meter Reader
Query meter readings
and status interactively.
The primary users are
• Isolate particular
customer/meter
• Read meter