Access point overview

The Access Points can need your monitoring. You can check their latest activity and connection and change their settings.

This article will go through three places on the Dashboard and what you can see there.

• Collators page

• Collator Coverage page

• EMG Dashboard page

Collators page

To open this page go to Site Info and select Collators. Now you will see a list of all the Access Points in your system. Now let’s go through what you see on this page.

1. Collator - this is the ID of the Access Point.

2. Status - this informs you if the Access Point has a connection to the internet. There are three indicators:

• Green - Access Point is connected and the last upload has been less then an hour ago.

• Amber - Access Point does not have connection and has last uploaded between 1 hour and 24 hours ago.

• Red - Access Point does not have connection and has last uploaded more then 24 hours ago.

3. SWVersion - informs you of the software version on your colator.
   If your Access Point is not connected to the inernet this might not be the true software version, since the Dashboard isn’t able to collect the data from it.

4. Drawing - informs you on what drawing your Access Point can be found.

5. Last Activity, Locate, Identify, Found in Range, Upload - this informs you the date of the last time data was transmited to the dashboard

6. Devices in Range - informs you to how many devices the Access Point is able to send signals to.

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Lastly in the Collator page you can change settings of your Access Point using the Cog icon.

Here you can select if you want your Access Point to perform certain actions, let’s talk about a few:

• 0 means that actions are disabled

• 2, 4 & 6 are settings for circadian rhythyms that need to be further enabled through LMS Support

• 10 is a light scheduler that you can use according to Light Scheduler on Dashboard

• 11 BacNett scenes - paddy west question - waitning

After Saving remeber to check if the Sync Status has been changed to green.

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Collators Coverage page

To open this page go to Stie Info and Collator Coverage. This page will allow you to see what devices are in range of the Access Point allowing it to send out information. In essence this is a check of signal strength.

You can select the building level and if you want to see all Access Points.

If you click on a device you will learn additional inforamtion about signal strength, by how many Access Points this device is seen, first and last time it was found and the ID of the Access Point it is currently reporting to.

EMG Dashboard page

To open this page go to Site Reports and select EMG Dashboard

This page is mostly used when you have emergency lighting on your site. You will see the Access Point alongside all Emergency devices information.