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GENERATION ACTIVE RFID
9 Firmware Upgrades
This section describes the firmware upgrade procedure for all devices in an Ambient Systems
network. This upgrade has to be carried out using Ambient Studio. Basic knowledge and experience
with Ambient Studio is assumed. More information regarding Ambient Studio can be found in the
Ambient Studio user manual.
9.1 Gateway
Upgrading the firmware of the gateway has to be done by uploading the new firmware image to the
file system of the Gateway. When the complete image is uploaded, the gateway has to be reset.
Below is a step-by-step description on how to go about upgrading your Gateway firmware.
1. Obtain the latest firmware version from Ambient Systems and store it on your hard disk.
The firmware image of the gateway is always called Ambient0000.ota
2. Connect the gateway to Ambient Studio. Go to the Remote File System panel. On the left
side of the panel, select the gateway. On the right side of the screen, browse to the firmware
image and select it. On the right bottom of the screen, version information of this firmware
image is depicted (Illustration 37).
3. Press the upload file button. The file upload process should start. Confirm that you want to
upload the file to the device. Confirm if there is a warning that the file already exist and that
it will overwrite the file. The progress can be followed on the bottom of the screen. The
upload to the gateway goes relative fast (30 seconds) (Illustration 38). When the upload is
completed, the file is listed in the File List view of the Remote File System panel.
4. Go to the maintenance panel, select the gateway and press the reset button(Illustration 39).
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Illustration 38: Upload file button
Illustration 37: Version information of firmware.