User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Understanding Silver Spring Networks Access Points
- Contents
- 1 About Access Points
- Overview
- Features
- AP Product Description
- Battery Backups
- Read Storage
- Power Requirements
- Rebooting or Recycling APs
- Standards Compliance
- Cellular Modem
- Addressing Schemes
- Specifications
- European Union Compliance
- Maintenance Procedures
- Surge Protection
- Redundant WAN Option
- Mounting Options
- WAN Options
- Throughput Performance
- Responding to a WAN Failure
- Multicast / Unicast Communications
- Networking
- Address Management
- Administration
- Configuration
- 2 FCC and Government Guidelines
- Index
Understanding Silver Spring Networks Access Points 1 About Access Points
Understanding Silver Spring Networks Access Points 4 March 2013 Silver Spring Networks 6
Figure2showsanEthernetAP.
Battery Backups
APscanbeconfiguredwithbatterybackups.Intheeventofapowerfailure,thebattery
backupcanprovidecontinuousoperationforatleasteighthours.
SilverSpringNetworkssuggestsasabestpractice,abatterybackupwithintheAccessPoint.
Whenoperatingonbatterybackup,AccessPointsmaintainfulloperational
features.The
InfrastructureBatteryPack(IBP)usessealedlead‐acidbatterytechnology,whichwilldeliver
energyovera‐40to+85Ctemperaturerange.SilverSpringoperatestheInfrastructure
BatteryPackonafloat(thatis,theusagemodelisdefinedaslongperiodsoftopped‐off
chargestatesfollowedbysporadic
deepdischargeevents(outageevents).
UtilityIQ
®
,GridScape,orHCMapplicationscanactivelymonitorstatus.Eventsrangein
severityfrominformational(forexample,exportjobsucceeded)towarning(forexample,the
gapfillerhasstartedrunningbecauseanintervalgapwasdetected),toerror(forexample,
theDCDetectionflagonthemeterwasset),toemergency.
Theseincludeanalarmwhenthe
backupbatteryonanAccessPointiscriticallylow.
Formoreinformationonbatterybackupdevices,refertowww.enersys.com.Thekey
documentsare:
• CyclonApplicationManual
• CyclonSelectionGuide
Figure 2. Silver Spring Networks Access Point (AP)
Cellular antenna
Power
connector
NAN antenna