SolidSense N6 Indoor Quick Start Guide

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Introduction

The following quick start guide provides background information about the SolidSense N6 Indoor Edge Gateway.

SolidSense N6 Edge Gateway is an enterprise Internet of Things gateway designed for servicing a local network of IoT devices with a range of solutions and business applications. SolidSense is the ultimate IoT M2M solution, with high-end connectivity options, on an industrial grade fanless platform in both an indoor and outdoor configuration.

Based on the robust and modular NXP i.MX6 Arm Cortex A9 Single/Dual/Quad-core processor, SolidSense is a feature-rich edge platform designed to provide flexibility for developers and OEMs in implementing an almost endless range of IoT solutions.

Specifications

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Block Diagram

The following figure describes the SolidSense N6 Indoor Edge Gateway Block Diagram.

Visual features overview

Please see below the features overview of the top side of the product.

Feature Specifications

SMA Connectors

The SolidSense N6 indoor features 5 SMA connectors as described below:

From left to right:

• 2.4G – u-blox Nina B1 (J2 on u-blox addon card Schematics ) | SMA-RP

• WiFi – TI1831MOD (On SOM) | SMA-RP

• GPS – Quectel EC25 (GPS) | SMA

• 2.4G – u-blox Nina B1 (J6 on u-blox addon card Schematics) | SMA-RP

LTE – Quectel EC25 (Main) | SMA

The assembly of the u.FL to SMA cables can be seen in the picture below;

LED

Bi-color (Red,Green) LEDs, Datasheet can be found here,
For user programming / indication / status.

HDMI

SolidSense uses PN ABA-HDM-051-P01 by LOTES

USB

SolidSense uses PN USB-A2D16F-2B8N by CZT

Each USB port is able to provide up to 0.5A

MicroSD

SolidSense uses PN ZM90-15000-0BR1 by CEN LINK, Datasheet can be seen here: http://www.cenlink.com.tw/upload/20120718204404.pdf 

Ethernet

SolidSense uses PN B50(15-02)G8-09-A023-B52 by BTOP : http://www.magnetic-rj45jack.com/sale-10691195-bicolor-led-rj45-connector-port-high-performance-for-maximum-emi-suppression.html

DC jack

• Input voltage range: 9-36V

• Power consumption idle:  0.4W

• Power consumption maximum: 8W

• Diameter : Outer 5.5mm , Inner 2.1mm with twist & lock feature

Please refer to this article for more information :  i.MX6 Application Note – Suspend to Memory Power Measurements

The system can be used in 4 ways

1. Ready to go SolidSense IoT platform (SolidSense Out-Of-the-Box) with Eclipse Kura Framework and Wirepas/Bluetooth Low Energy MQTT gateways built-in applications. Configure the gateway via Kura and that’s it you can directly have your data forwarded to your cloud application.

2. Developing your own application or add-on on top of the platform. Simple additions can be developed via Python 3.7 using the pre-installed packages. For more sophisticated development, a Docker infrastructure is ready to host your containers.

3. Create your own SolidSense image derived from SolidSense OOB.

4. From bare metal. You can create your own Linux image starting from SolidRun BSP. The support for these developments are not covered in the SolidSense section.

Network Configuration

For managing your IoT gateway, monitor the gateway status, and manage the network configuration, you can refer to Configuring SolidSense networking with Kura .

Please see below picture to get the serial number for SSID of the network.

Mesh Network - Wirepas

If you are using SolidSense as a Wirepas gateway you can directly configure your Wirepas gateway by referring to Configuring and testing the Wirepas gateway software .

For flashing or re-flashing Wirepas sinks, please refer to Flashing or Re-flashing Wirepas sinks on SolidSense gateway (V0.9 and up) .

RF Performance

TI1831MOD

Approvals

• FCC (USA)

• ISED (Canada)

• ETSI/CE (Europe)

• MIC (Japan)

U-Blox Nina B1

Approvals

• Europe

• USA

• Japan

• Taiwan

• South Korea

• Brazil

• Australia and New Zealand

• South Africa

Quectel EC25

Electrical Specifications

Approvals

• RoHS Compliant

• CE/GCF/Vodafone (Europe)

• FCC/PTCRB/AT&T/Verizon* (North America)

• RCM/Telstra (Australia)

• JATE/TELEC/DOCOMO*/Softbank* (Japan)

• NCC (Taiwan)

• KC/SKT/KT*/LGU+* (Korea)

• IC/Rogers (Canada)

• NBTC (Thailand)

• Anatel (Brazil)

Labels

Product Label

Each SolidSense unit has a unique MAC address and Serial Number as detailed below;

• (1P) – Product SKU

• (S) – Serial Number

• (23S) – MAC Address

The 2D barcode matrix contains this information as well as country of origin.

Package Label

Each SolidSense unit has the below label on the product package; the 2D barcode matrix has this information encoded.

• (1P) – Product SKU

• (S) – Serial Number

• (Q) – Quantity

Package Description

Length : 172mm | Width : 150mm | Height : 55mm | Weight : 415gr (Inc. packaging box)

Each product is packed into a single package with anti-static foam as shown in the picture below.

Bluetooth

1. For showing all Bluetooth devices, run the following:

1. Choose a device, and turn it on:

1. Set up the Bluetooth name:

1. Make your Bluetooth detectable by other devices:

1. If you want to connect to other devices:

• Start by scanning for other Bluetooth devices:

• Choose a MAC address and connect :

• You can check the communication between the devices by writing :

Support

Please follow our SolidSense Support Overview page.

Documentation

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