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5015 B.U. Bowman Drive Buford, GA 30518 USA Voice: 770-831-8048 Fax: 770-831-8598

Certification Exhibit

FCC ID: R7PCG6R1S1

IC: 5294A-CG6R1S1

FCC Rule Part: 15.247

IC Radio Standards Specification: RSS-210

ACS Report Number: 08-0040-15C

Manufacturer: Cellnet Technology, Inc.

Model: 1-Way Repeater

Manual

Title: 1-Way Repeater Installation and Setup

Doc. Number: 97-1077 Revision: AB Page 1 of 11

PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE:

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF CELLNET AND SHALL NOT

BE DUPLICATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED OR DISCLOSED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT

APPROVED BY CELLNET.

1-Way Repeater Installation and Setup Guide

Revision History

ECO/ECN Rev Date Author Page Description

ECO-

047988 AA 4/2/08 D. Fincannon

All Initial Release

ECO-

048047 AB 4/18/08 D. Fincannon 11 Incorporate comments from test

house

ECO-

048100 AC 5/2/08 D. Fincannon 2,4 Add comments on installation

and RF power

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PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE:

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF CELLNET AND SHALL NOT

BE DUPLICATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED OR DISCLOSED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT

APPROVED BY CELLNET.

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Introduction

Overview

The Cellnet 1 way repeater (BLTr) is intended to be a low cost way to extend the

coverage of an MCC in rural (low customer density) areas.

Cellnet’s current 1-way technology utilizes the BLT radio for communication over

the wireless LAN. The Cellnet 1-way Repeater is designed to reduce the

network costs associated with 1-way electric, water, and/or gas meter

deployments for low density areas. The 1-Way Repeater will utilize the latest

firmware enhancements available for the BLT repeater radio, designed to

increase the performance of the existing BLT radio.

The BLT repeater is a project aimed at stretching the RF coverage capability of

the Cellnet network at a cost that is not prohibitive to the company or the

customer.

Increased coverage for more rural areas is planned to be obtained by using 1-

Way Repeater to extend the LAN coverage of each MCC. The present RF range

of a MCC is approximately 0.4 miles in radius that equates to roughly 0.5 square

miles of area. By using 1-Way Repeater for LAN extension, the area of coverage

is expected to be extended by an order of magnitude to 5 square miles. In other

words using an average of 10 1-Way Repeaters reporting to each MCC, we

should be able to increase the radius of coverage to approximately 5 square

miles.

The 1 way repeater forwards Cellnet 1-way packets received on 917.58 Mhz /

Spread Channel #1 at 911.58 Mhz / spread channel #2. The MCC is reconfigured

to receive packets on 911.58 Mhz and spread channel #2. Repeaters are

installed around the MCC to extend its coverage area. The 1-way repeater

should not require device specific configuration other than configuring it with a

unique LAN address if heart beat packets are required to monitor its proper

operation.

The 1-Way Repeater is built using a standard BLT transceiver and modifying it

with SW so that it operates as described in this document. These modifications

also result in a minor reduction in output power to a nominal 25.5 dBm at 911.58

MHz from the nominal 27 dBm at 917.58 MHz of the standard BLT radio.

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PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE:

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF CELLNET AND SHALL NOT

BE DUPLICATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED OR DISCLOSED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT

APPROVED BY CELLNET.

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The 1-way packets transmitted by the BLTr are processed by the Frame

manager and send to the BLTr agent.

The BLTr agent receives the Admin packet from the device and stores the

information pertaining to the heart beat packet.

The BLTr agent sends out periodic ASAP messages with the contents of the

heart beat packet. This is controlled by parameters in the EEPROM configuration

where the default sending messages is turned ON.

The BLTr agent logs a periodic message in the event log of the system controller.

Acronyms and definitions

CIF MCC Code Image File

MCC MicroCell Controller – a device that collects data and

events from RF LAN devices for storage in the object

database; communicates with the System Controller or

the CellMaster and the RF WAN.

Cell

Manager A Sun workstation configured to run CellNet software

LSB Least Significant Byte

MSB Most Significant Byte

ASAP As Soon As Possible Messages

CIA Cellnet Internal Address

DMS Distributed Messaging System

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PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE:

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF CELLNET AND SHALL NOT

BE DUPLICATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED OR DISCLOSED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT

APPROVED BY CELLNET.

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Installation

The 1-Way Repeater is packaged with two antennas and two ground disks. A mounting

kit is available that contains the mounting kit to install the radio and the RF cables to the

antennas. This installation is similar to other Cellnet products. The repeater is attached to

the streetlight arm and powered via the streetlight photocell adapter cable ordered with

the repeater. No additional SW or configuration is required.

Equipment Required

• 45-1049: mounting kit that can be used with one way repeater. Antennas and antenna

ground disk supplied with 1-Way Repeater

• Recommended torque settings for ¼” HW: 45 in-lb

• Serial cable: None expected to be used in normal operation

• 103826-000: AC power cable if attached to photocell, other installations possible

Note: Professional installation of the 1-Way Repeater is required.

Low Density Deployment

The 1-Way Repeater could be used to include a rural group of meters currently read by

manual means. This allows network costs to be reduced.

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PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE:

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF CELLNET AND SHALL NOT

BE DUPLICATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED OR DISCLOSED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT

APPROVED BY CELLNET.

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MCC Setup

The following commands are needed to set up the receiving MCC. The settings of the

MCC processor board need to be changed. Changing the settings in the BLT radio alone

will not result in permanent changes and the processor will change the BLT back to the

original settings. Note that this MCC will only receive from 1-Way Repeaters because it

will only receive at 911.58 MHz.

In order to set up the MCC, follow the following instructions. Entries are shown in red.

Connect to the MCC using Hyperterm or MCC Term if the GUI features are not used.

Type <unlock>

Console unlocked...

MCC Main Menu

i Display firmware version info

t CellNet Time and Real Time Clock (RTC) menu...

a Application menu...

c Configuration (EEPROM) menu...

d Debug menu...

l Lock Console

m Toggle Terse Mode

Select option (? for menu): c

MCC860 EEPROM Configuration Menu

d Display all configuration items a page at a time

x Display all configuration items with no paging

D Display only new items

s Set specific items (choose from paged list)

n Set specific items by name or id number

a Interactively set all items (prompt for each one)

A Interactively set new items

e Interactively set all out-of-range items

E Interactively set out-of-range new items

r Set all items to defaults (no prompting)

R Set new items to defaults

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PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE:

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF CELLNET AND SHALL NOT

BE DUPLICATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED OR DISCLOSED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT

APPROVED BY CELLNET.

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f Set all out-of-range items to defaults

F Set out-of-range new items to defaults

S Save EEPROM cache to NAND File

G Get the EEPROM params from Nand

q Quit

Select option (? for menu): s

MCC860 EEPROM Configuration

[Note '*' indicates change requires Warm Boot; '+' requires Hot Boot]

[a] MCC ID (up to 15 characters): INCB011

[b] MCC serial number (up to 16 characters): 1000005

[c]+MCC WAN Stack Type (0=radio, 1=serial DMS, 2=serial MTP, 3=RAM WAN,

4=Tel WAN, 5=IP WAN, 6=FreeWave, 7=

Utilinet) [0..7;default=0]: 0

[d]*MCC DMS Net Address [1..4294967039;default=4294967038]: 600037

[e]*MCC DMS node address (normally 1) [1..65534;default=65534]: 12

[f]+Log manager's (and CTS's) DMS Net Address [1..4294967039;default=4294967039]:

[g]+Log manager's (and CTS's) DMS node address [1..65534;default=65534]: 254

[h]+Event manager's DMS Net Address [1..4294967039;default=4294967039]: 25

[i]+Event manager's DMS node address [1..65534;default=65534]: 256

[j] Event forwarding ODE timeout (seconds) [120..86400;default=1800]: 1800

[k] Event forwarding holdoff (seconds) [0..86400;default=120]: 120

[l]+Last ODE object id [1..2147483647;default=1]: 117350001

[m]*Minutes from GMT (0=GMT, 480=PST) [positive increments of 60] [-

720..720;default=480]: 360

[n]*Daylight savings type (0=none, 1=USA, 7=UK) [0..7;default=1]: 1

[o]+Lan transceiver hardware revision [0..255;default=0]: 0

[p]+Lan Rx squelch [0..255;default=0]: 1

[r]+Lan Rx frequency (3 MHz steps) [905.58..926.58;default=917.58]: 917.58

[s]+Lan Rx chipping sequence [1..6;default=1]: 1

[t]+Lan Rx Trip level (0 = use transceiver default) [0..255;default=0]: 0

[u]+Lan Rx antenna (0=normal, 1=fast, 2=fixed A, 3=fixed B) [0..3;default=0]: 0

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PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE:

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF CELLNET AND SHALL NOT

BE DUPLICATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART OR USED OR DISCLOSED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT

APPROVED BY CELLNET.

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Select item to change, RETURN for next page, ESC to quit, TAB to redisplay: r

+Lan Rx frequency (3 MHz steps) [905.58..926.58;default=917.58]: 917.58

Enter new value, RETURN to skip, ESC to quit: 911.58

Select item to change, RETURN for next page, ESC to quit, TAB to redisplay: s

+Lan Rx chipping sequence [1..6;default=1]: 1

Enter new value, RETURN to skip, ESC to quit: 2

Select item to change, RETURN for next page, ESC to quit, TAB to redisplay:

Press <TAB> to redisplay

MCC860 EEPROM Configuration

[Note '*' indicates change requires Warm Boot; '+' requires Hot Boot]

[a] MCC ID (up to 15 characters): INCB011

[b] MCC serial number (up to 16 characters): 1000005

[c]+MCC WAN Stack Type (0=radio, 1=serial DMS, 2=serial MTP, 3=RAM WAN,

4=Tel WAN, 5=IP WAN, 6=FreeWave, 7=Utilinet) [0..7;default=0]: 0