ATrack AVL Devices Basic Configuration Procedure
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1. OF No 285 Tiding Blvd Sec 2 Neihu Dist Taipei City 11493 Taiwan Tel 886 2 2797 5852 Fax 886 2 2797 4030 Web site www atrack com tw amp ATrack Confidential 3 Communication 3 1 GSM Registration GSM network registration is automatically done There is no need to configure unless the PIN code is enabled If the PIN code is enabled please issue the following command in the hyper terminal to allow the device to access the SIM AT SPIN 0000 Note please replace the 0000 to the specified PIN for the SIM card 3 2 SMS function The device will only apply AT commands specified in the protocol document Other unrecognized texts will be discarded To test this function a receiving number must be set in advance by issuing AT GSMS 0975130243 Note a Replace 0975130243 to the number which you wish to receive the response from the device This number is defined as the lt Base Number gt b All command status will be sent to the number specified in this command c To test you can simply send AT GPOS 0 command as an SMS to the device SIM number and you will receive a position message from the device as a response 3 3 GPRS Registration The device requires entering GPRS APN username and password if required by carrier Host address and port and packet type in order to establish a connection to the server The command involved for this setting is AT GPRS AT GPRS lt Enable gt lt APN gt lt Userna2. listen for the incoming request In the above setting the device will send a binary string that needs to be replied with exactly the same as received data To simplify the test please use the Simple Server Tool application provided by ATrack Position Message Format Once the communication is established please set the format of the position message By default the device will send the message in binary format with Unix timestamp The default format setting is AT FORM 1 P 0 If you would like to receive position messages in ASCII format with readable timestamp YY YYMMDDhhmmss please send the following command to the device AT FORM 0 1 Note that to skip the field within a command you can simply put a comma as shown above To parse the data please refer to the protocol document in Position Format Tracking All the AVL devices can be used for two modes of tracking 5 1 Tracking on demand This is to manually get the position message on demand To do so simply send AT GPOS 0 and the device will send the position message to the command originator with the current information time coordinates I O status and etc To specify where the position message to be sent to the parameter can be changed For example if the command is sent via SMS but the message is meant to be sent over GPRS to the server the ATrack Technology Inc OF No 285 Tiding Blvd Sec 2 Neihu Dist Taipei City 11493 Taiwan a Tel 886 2 2797 5852 Fax
3. 886 2 2797 4030 Web site www atrack com tw ATrack Confidential SMS command to the device will be AT GPOS 2 On the other hand if the command is sent from server and wish the cellular phone which the number was defined as the lt Base Number gt in AT GSMS to receive a Google Map link from the device the command can be set as AT GPOS 1 1 Please refer to the protocol document for the AT GPOS command detail Note that the position messages sent to SMS will be based on ASCII format while the messages sent to GPRS server will be based on the AT FORM setting 5 2 Automatic Tracking The device can be set based on the criteria To start a basic time mode tracking with 3 minutes interval with destination of GPRS server simply send AT TRAC 1 180 2 In addition to a simple time mode tracking the device can be set to use ACC signal as a trigger and set two different intervals ACC ON 30 seconds ACC OFF 300 seconds as AT TRAC 5 30 2 300 Note that the device will take the INO yellow wire on cable as the ACC signal input by default To test it without an actual installation on the vehicle take the yellow wire and connect to the V on the power source to simulate the ACC ON and to GND to simulate ACC OFF To start with other modes distance heading change or combination of multiple modes please refer to the Protocol Document AT TRAC section 6 Event Setting This chapter shows some examples of setting the events in
4. is that the device will reboot itself after receiving AT GPRS command You might need to hit the enter key for the last command if the lt CR gt lt LF gt was not copied Note that the following is to set the device to communicate using GPRS by default use ACC INO as the trigger for ACC ON OFF tracking mode along with ACC status change reports ACC ON 101 ACC OFF 102 AT FORM 0 1 AT GSMS 0975 130243 AT TRAC 5S 30 2 300 AT INPT 0 7 AT REPT 101 1 INO 1 0 1 AT REPT 102 1 INO 0 0 1 AT RACT 1 3 2 AT GPRS 1 INTERNET User Pass atrack com tw 8051 0 3 30 3 1 For settings or command questions please contact ATrack representative ATrack Technology Inc 9F No 285 Tiding Blvd Sec 2 Neihu Dist Taipei City 11493 Taiwan Tel 886 2 2797 5852 Fax 886 2 2797 4030 Web site www atrack com tw
5. 1 2 ATrack Confidential Alrack AVL Devices Basic Configuration Procedure Physical Wiring On the package for the AVL device there will be a power I O cable and serial cable Please connect the power I O cable to the device and take the pin 1 red and pin 2 black to V and GND on an external power source respectively Next connect the serial cable between your PC and the device and you are able to communicate with the device over serial connection Serial Port Setting for Hyper Terminal This test document describes the simple commands to perform the communication establishment These are the very basic function of the ATrack AVL devices In order to do it the device needs to be set via serial port at the initial step The serial port setting for the device is 57600bps baud rate 8 N 1 with no flow control Please see the picture below for the setting screenshot Port Settings Baper scond Data bits 8 Panty Stop bits How control None Also to make sure the typed command will be echoed on the screen please set the exact settings as shown in the ASCII Setup screen below ASCII Setup ASCII Sending Send line ends with line feeds Echo typed characters locally Line delay 1000 milliseconds Character delay U milliseconds ASCII Receiving E Append line feeds to incoming line ends Force incoming data to 7 bit ASCII Wrap lines that exceed terminal width ATrack Technology Inc
6. me gt lt Password gt lt Host Address gt lt Host Port gt lt Socket Type gt lt Retry gt lt Timeout gt lt Keep Alive gt lt Report ACK gt For example consider the following parameters GPRS APN INTERNET GPRS Username User GPRS Password Pass Host Address atrack com tw Host Port 8051 Packet Type TCP Then the command will be AT GPRS 1 INTERNET User Pass atrack com tw 8051 0 3 30 3 1 ATrack Technology Inc OF No 285 Tiding Blvd Sec 2 Neihu Dist Taipei City 11493 Taiwan a Tel 886 2 2797 5852 Fax 886 2 2797 4030 Web site www atrack com tw ATrack Confidential Another example assuming the parameters are all the same except the Host Address and Socket Type has changed Host Address 10 254 33 128 Socket Type UDP AT GPRS 1 INTERNET User Pass 10 254 33 128 8051 1 3 30 180 1 Please note that the device will send one Keep Alive message regardless of the lt Keep Alive gt interval setting In the above settings the Keep Alive interval is set to be 3 minutes TCP 3 minutes UDP 180 seconds The Keep Alive message is in Binary format and depending on the lt ACK gt setting the server will need to reply to the device with exactly received Keep Alive message back if lt ACK gt is set to 1 For more information please refer to the protocol document Once the AT GPRS is set to the device on the server side please open the specified port in order to
7. the ATrack devices The devices are set to use the following methods to send an event report set user define trigger report action defines event gt report to monitor gt when report becomes event true An example is to set the ACC ON OFF reports The ACC is defined as the signal detected on INO Therefore we set the below commands to make the device send reports when ACC is ON or OFF AT INPT 0 7 AT REPT 101 1 INO 1 0 1 AT REPT 102 1 INO 0 0 1 AT RACT 1 3 2 The AT INPT is to define the debounce time for the INO ATrack Technology Inc OF No 285 Tiding Blvd Sec 2 Neihu Dist Taipei City 11493 Taiwan a Tel 886 2 2797 5852 Fax 886 2 2797 4030 Web site www atrack com tw 7 ATrack Confidential AT REPT commands are to define the state of INO to monitor When INO is triggered with high voltage the report ID 101 will be true and refer to the report action defined as AT RACT index 1 for action s to take The same applies to report 102 AT RACT in the example here is to define to send the event report to the server over GPRS and log the incident also in the internal flash memory for later retrieval For more detail please refer to the protocol document Sample Script This chapter is to include all the example setting above into a script file Simply copy all the commands below and paste it to the hyper terminal at once Note that the AT GPRS is put as the last command and the reason
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