User`s guide

i.LON SmartServer Power Line Repeating Network Management Guide vii
See Chapter 1, Preparing a Power Line Repeating Network for Installation, and Chapter 2, Installing a
Power Line Repeating Network, for more information on these steps.
Related Reading
The documentation for the SmartServer is provided as Adobe Acrobat PDF files and online help files.
The PDF files for all the SmartServer documents except for i.LON SmartServer Freely Programmable
Module Developer’s Guide are installed in the Echelon i.LON SmartServer program folder when you
install the i.LON SmartServer software. The PDF file for the i.LON SmartServer Freely
Programmable Module Developer’s Guide is installed in the Echelon i.LON FPM Development
program folder when you install the i.LON Programmability Tools software. You can also download
the latest SmartServer documentation, including the latest version of this guide, from Echelon’s
Website at www.echelon.com/support/documentation/manuals/cis.
• i.LON SmartServer User’s Guide. Describes how to configure the SmartServer and use its
applications to manage control networks.
• i.LON SmartServer Hardware Guide. Describes how to assemble, mount, and wire the
SmartServer hardware.
• i.LON SmartServer Programmer’s Reference. Describes how to configure the SmartServer using
XML files and SOAP calls.
• i.LON SmartServer Freely Programmable Module Developer’s Guide. Describes how to write
custom embedded applications called Freely Programmable Modules (FPMs) and deploy them on
your SmartServer. FPMs let you implement custom functionality and modify the SmartServer
embedded software to meet your needs.
• NodeBuilder User’s Guide. Describes how to use the NodeBuilder tool to develop and test
applications for Neuron-hosted devices.
Content
This guide includes the following content:
• Preparing a Power Line Repeating Network for Installation. Describes the tasks required for
preparing a PL-20 power line repeating network for installation. Describes how to install the
Street Lighting Helper sample application used to store and transmit device locations and Neuron
IDs to a Pocket PC that is being used as an installation tool. Describes how to upload application
image files (.apb extension), external interface files (XIFs), and resource files to the SmartServer.
Describes how to place the SmartServer in standalone mode, configure the L
ONWORKS channel
attached to the SmartServer as a PL-20 channel, and enable repeating on the PL-20 channel.
• Installing a Power Line Repeating Network. Describes how to acquire the geographic locations
(coordinates) and Neuron IDs of the devices to be attached to the PL-20 channel, including how to
use a bar code scanner and Pocket PC to acquire the device data. Describes how to transmit the
device data to the SmartServer and install the devices, including how to link a Pocket PC to the
SmartServer and use the Pocket PC to upload the device data to the SmartServer and install the
devices. Explains how to troubleshoot the installation of a power line repeating network.
• Maintaining a Power Line Repeating Network. Describes how to analyze and debug the power
line repeating channel using the Power Line Repeating Analysis Web page on the SmartServer.
Explains how to replace, upgrade, test, add, and delete devices with the SmartServer. Describes
how to switch the network to LNS management mode and synchronize the network to an LNS
database so that it can be managed with an LNS application such as the LonMaker tool.
• Controlling a Street Lighting Network with the Scheduler Application. Describes how to use the
Scheduler application on the SmartServer to control the devices on a street lighting network.
Explains how to create exception schedules and how to add events to the schedules so that devices
such as luminaries can be turned on and off based on calculated sunrise and sundown times.