The free web-based device management console from Radio Bridge allows you to:
Radio Bridge provides a free web-based device management console for the automatic provisioning,
monitoring, and configuration of sensors in the field.
Provisioning means activating the device so it can talk to the appropriate wireless network. Radio Bridge sensors can be activated for any supported network through the console.
For example, if you want to use a Radio Bridge sensor on a managed LoRaWAN network such as machineQ, Senet, Loriot, or others, simply add it to the Radio Bridge console and that device will be automatically provisioned on the network without any engagement between you and the network provider. That means you can start from scratch by purchasing a Radio Bridge sensor from one of our distributors, add it to the console, and immediately start receiving wireless messages on the console.
Monitoring means receiving the sensor messages, decoding and interpreting the payload, and optionally setting alerts for sensor events.
All of the uplink sensor messages are defined in the user guides on the associated product pages. The console shortcuts this development and provides all of the decoding for you, and optionally pushes the decoded data to your application.
You can also set up email or text message alerts when certain sensor events occur. In this way, the console along with the hardware devices can provide a full sensor to cloud solution for basic monitoring applications. Adding your own application on top of the console is easy through the APIs provided.
Radio Bridge sensors have configuration options that allow the user to modify the behavior and characteristics of the sensor. A new configuration can be sent through a downlink message over the wireless network to the device after it has been deployed in the field.
The console has an easy to use configuration section for each sensor that allows the user to graphically select a new configuration and queue it for a downlink. It also provides status so the user can confirm the downlink was received correctly.
Much like the uplink message decoding, all of the downlink parameters are defined in the user guides provided on each product page.
The Radio Bridge console can be used as a stand-alone end user application using the provisioning, monitoring, and configuration options described above, along with configurable email or text message notifications. Many customers choose to build the final end-user application “on top of” the console while still utilizing the features provided by the console itself. This is accomplished through the API feature which provides a simple RESTful interface for uplink sensor messages and downlink configuration.
For example, when a sensor sends an uplink message, a POST request is made to the user defined server which contains all of the parameters related to that sensor message including the raw payload, a human readable decode, signal strength, time stamp, etc. For an end-user application to create a new downlink configuration, a simple POST request is made to the console containing the downlink string. When the configuration is sent to the console, the downlink is queued and sent down to the sensor at the next opportunity.
Radio Bridge, a MultiTech brand, designs and manufactures long-range wireless sensors for the Internet of Things (IoT) industry using the LoRaWAN wireless standard.
