User's Manual

SmartPlug User Guide

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3 USE CASES

3.1 FIRST USE: CONTROLLING ELECTRIC DEVICES IN ON/OFF

The direct application for the SmartPlug is to control electrical devices thanks to their electric supplies. Indeed

the SmartPlug is plugged inside a wall socket. Then the device to control has to be plugged on the SmartPlug’s

socket, as it can be seen on the picture here below.

Once this quick installation is done, the electric device can be controlled through the LoRaWAN network to be

either powered or not. This control is done thanks to the ZCL: the nke Watteco’s application layer. More

precisely, thanks to the On/Off cluster (cf. “LoRaWAN Sensors Application Layer Description” document p.22).

The exact frame to send can be found in the paragraph §5.

3.2 SECOND USE: WATCHING THE CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRIC DEVICES

Controlling an electric device in On/Off is, of course, not the only application for the SmartPlug. Indeed, this

latter integrate the necessary electronic to measure the power consumption of the electric device plugged on

it.

All the measured value can be found iniside the Simple-Metering Like Cluster (cf. “LoRaWAN Sensors

Application Layer Description” document p.29 and 30). Here below can be seen a table summarizing all the

value measured along with their unit.

FIGURE 2 - SMARTPLUG IN OFF AND ON STATE WITH AN ELECTRIC DEVICE