Signal Testing Guide

Truety Signal Testing Guide

Truety wireless modules are designed to optimize their communication parameters, based on the RF environment, to maximize transmission performance and battery life.

Typically, once a wireless module has been installed, its location is permanent. This differs from signal testing scenarios where the module will be moved to different locations during testing. For the purpose of signal testing, you will use only the device rejoin request function in the Truety CX App (See below).

  1. Open the Truety CX App and select your project, then building.




  2. Select your Gateway in the Truety CX App and check the status. If the Gateway is online, proceed with the testing, if it is not online, check the following:
    1. Power to the Gateway
    2. Connection of the antenna (make sure that the antenna is connected to the
      LoRaWAN port, not cellular)
    3. Cellular reception at the Gateway location
    4. It can take up to 5 minutes for the Gateway to fully boot and establish communication with the LoRaWAN Network Server
      The green dot indicates that the Gateway is online and has communicated in the past 5 minutes

  3. Select your Device.
  4. Scroll to the bottom and click “RE-JOIN”, then tap and hold your phone to the module to initiate data transmission. This process can take up to 3 seconds to complete.

  5. Once the module is joined, press “UPDATE STATUS” to check the communication status and last successful transmission of the module to the server (See the picture above).

    The status will show the age of the last successful communication as the bars will indicate the signal strength with 1 to 5 bars.
  6. To confirm updated status please note the time stamp of the last transmission.

  7. When conducting extended range or signal strength tests, the process of a successful device join may take up to 2 minutes. This is typically the case when testing is conducted at an increasing distance away from the gateway or with additional obstructions (walls, concrete, steel, etc).

    For example: Last successful rejoin request resulted in 2 bars (image). The following range test(s) at a further distance may result in a 1 bar signal strength.

    In this case the ‘update status’ may take up to 2 minutes (allowing LoRaWAN to make all successful join requests). Typically, the update status will be within 10-15 seconds in areas of closer proximity to the gateway.

  8. Continue range/signal performance testing until a rejoin request no longer results in a status update that correlates with your last rejoin request

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