System Manual
EkoTek System Installation and Configuration Manual
9261-8173 issue: 8
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Table of contents
Table of contents...........................................................................................................i
Approvals .....................................................................................................................3
Compliance...............................................................................................................3
FCC and Industry Canada Statement of Compliance ..............................................3
WEEE Directive and Product Disposal.....................................................................3
System Overview .........................................................................................................4
1. EkoTek principles .................................................................................................5
2. Location reporting.................................................................................................6
3. Alarms ..................................................................................................................7
4. Location alarm ......................................................................................................7
5. Beacons................................................................................................................7
6. Two-way acknowledgement .................................................................................7
7. Two-way radio ......................................................................................................7
8. Frequency hopping...............................................................................................8
9. ESPA and TAP paging I/O ...................................................................................8
10. Configuration ......................................................................................................8
11. Network parameters ...........................................................................................9
12. Diagnostics and statistics ...................................................................................9
Components...............................................................................................................10
1. Hub .....................................................................................................................10
2. Repeater and mains-powered repeater..............................................................10
3. Solar repeater.....................................................................................................11
4. Call point and mains-powered call point.............................................................11
5. Call fob ...............................................................................................................12
6. Pager ..................................................................................................................13
7. Quad pager charging rack ..................................................................................14
Synchronised Ethernet Repeater ...............................................................................15
1. Overview.............................................................................................................15
Network design and survey........................................................................................17
1. Overview.............................................................................................................17
2. Prerequisites.......................................................................................................17
3. Placement rules..................................................................................................17
4. The survey unit ...................................................................................................18
5. How to survey.....................................................................................................21
Installation ..................................................................................................................22
1. Preparation .........................................................................................................22
2. Installing the hub and IP slave hub.....................................................................23
3. Installing the repeater, mains powered repeater and call point ..........................24
4. Installing the solar repeater ................................................................................28
5. Installing Synchronised Ethernet Repeater (SER) .............................................30
6. Installing the PPP modem ..................................................................................31
7. Installing the four-way pager charging rack........................................................37
8. Browser interface setup......................................................................................38
9. Main menus ........................................................................................................41
10. Maintenance menus .........................................................................................43
11. Configuration menus ........................................................................................47
12. SER overview ...................................................................................................49
13. Final checks......................................................................................................70
14. Configuring SERs .............................................................................................71
Synchronisation..........................................................................................................74
Appendix 1: Miscellaneous system messages...........................................................75