Gsm/gprs wireless communication – SATEC EM920 Operation Manual User Manual

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Chapter 2 Operating the EM920

Communicating with the EM920

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EM920 Power Quality and Revenue Meter

You can check the Ethernet port MAC address and present IP
address setting via the Device Info display (see

Device Info

Display

in Chapter 3).

See

Setting Up the Ethernet

in Chapter 5 on how to configure

your Ethernet port.

The meter provides two TCP servers configured for the
Modbus/TCP (port 502) and DNP3.0/TCP (port 20000)
protocols.

The TCP servers support 5 simultaneous Internet connections
with client applications. Connection through the Ethernet port
does not require device identification. The meter responds to
any device address and returns the received address in the
response message.

The meter also provides three TCP clients:

• SNTP client for periodic synchronization of the meter

clock with a publicly available SNTP server (see

Setting-Up SNTP Client

)

• eXpertPower

TM

client for communications with the

proprietary eXpertPower

TM

server (see

Setting-Up

eXpertPower Client

)

• TCP notification client that can establish connections

with a remote Modbus/TCP server and send
notification messages either on events, or periodically
on a time basis (see

Setting-Up TCP Notification Client

)

GSM/GPRS Wireless Communication

An optional GSM/GPRS modem can be provided with the
EM920 for wireless communications via a cellular GPRS
network. It is identified by the EM920 as port COM2.

The module has two indication LEDs that operate as follows:

LED Color Status

Description

LINK

Green

Flashes/Lights Flashes while the modem is registering

on the GPRS network and is lit up after

the meter has logged on the network

RSSI Yellow Flashes

Received

signal strength indicator -

shows the quality of the received signal

as follows:
Flashes once a second – good quality –
the signal strength is above -109 dBm.
Flashes twice a second – bad quality –
the signal strength is less than -109

dBm.
Shut off – the signal strength is not
known or not detected.

See

Setting-Up Dial-Up GPRS Network

in Chapter 5 on how to

configure the GPRS modem and how to check a dynamically
assigned IP address the meter got from the GPRS network.

You can also check the meter IP address and the quality of
the received signal via the Device Info display (see

Device

Info Display

in Chapter 3).

The EM920 eXpertPower

TM

client and TCP notification client

can establish connections with remote servers via a GPRS

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