u-blox ANT-B10, User Manual

Page 1: ...lox com ANT B10 Antenna board User guide 0 0 3 Abstract This document describes the ANT B10 antenna board and includes procedures for connecting configuring and flashing both the board and C209 tags w...

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Page 3: ...r 14 4 2 2 Installing tag software with the DFU bootloader via command line 15 4 2 3 Installing tag software using a debugger 15 4 3 Configuration and handling 16 4 3 1 Configuring advertising interva...

Page 4: ...Angle calculation event UUDF 23 7 4 1 Description 23 7 4 2 Syntax 23 7 4 3 Defined values 23 7 5 RS232 setting UMRS 23 7 5 1 Description 23 7 5 2 Syntax 23 7 5 3 Defined values 23 7 5 4 Notes 24 7 6 O...

Page 5: ...compute tag angles The angles are calculated by the u connectLocate software running on the embedded MCU in the module The angles are delivered over the UART port of the ANT B10 Future u connectLocat...

Page 6: ...or FTDI FT232RL USB to TTL Serial Converter Adapter Module 5 V and 3 3 V for Arduino Female to female jumper set Dual row 1 27 mm pitch 20 pin female adapter to avoid pin damage on the ANT B10 board F...

Page 7: ...The figure features a signal expansion board which for test purposes has been mounted on the standard 1 27 mm header Figure 3 ANT B10 with UART to USB serial converter To connect ANT B10 to the host P...

Page 8: ...B10 User guide UBX 22006906 R02 Connecting the ANT B10 board to host PC Page 8 of 29 C1 Public Figure 4 shows the pin positions on the ANT B10 connector Figure 4 ANT B10 connector pin assignment top v...

Page 9: ...returns events similar to the following when it detects a beacon UUDF CCF9578E0D8A 42 20 0 0 37 CCF9578E0D89 15869 UUDF CCF9578E0D8B 41 10 4 0 38 CCF9578E0D89 15892 UUDF CCF9578E0D8A 42 10 2 0 39 CCF...

Page 10: ...with Angle of Arrival tab 3 2 Mounting and mechanical aspects The ANT B10 board should be mounted with the antenna side facing the room where the tracked tags are moving The antennas should be positi...

Page 11: ...oard dimensions Any enclosure designed for the boards should not include metal casing or plastic with metal flakes Metallic based paint or lacquer should also be avoided A clearance of at least 10 mm...

Page 12: ...g packets This CTE is used by the u connectLocate direction finding software that runs on the antenna application board and calculates the Angle of Arrival The namespace included in the transmitted Ed...

Page 13: ...low control is enabled GPIO_22 UART_TXD O UART data output GPIO_23 UART_RXD I UART data input GPIO_42 LIS_INT I Interrupt signal from accelerometer Table 1 Important pin definitions on the C209 For mo...

Page 14: ...s can be flashed over the UART using s center 7 Flashing requires s center 6 1 or later Follow the flashing procedure outlined below when using s center 1 Download and unzip the u connectLocate softwa...

Page 15: ...d the SW2 button on the C209 while resetting the board by inserting the USB cable or clicking the RESET button to set the bootloader in download mode See also Figure 9 4 Use the following command to i...

Page 16: ...2 Enabling disabling advertising Press and hold the SW2 button for 3 seconds to enable disable advertising If the tag is advertising press and hold the button to stop it advertising The onboard RGB LE...

Page 17: ...enter 7 This requires s center 6 1 or later Follow the procedure outlined below to flash ing when using s center 1 Download and unzip the u connectLocate software container as described in Command lin...

Page 18: ...ground while powering up the board 3 Flash the u connectLocate software using the bundled Windows only newtmgr executable Alternatively use the Newt Manager Guide 6 to install the newtmgr application...

Page 19: ...igured to track all u blox tags The tags advertise with the Eddystone namespace 0x4E494E412D4234544147 which by default is tracked in u connectLocate So if you are only using the u blox C209 tags no c...

Page 20: ...tion finding filter UDFFILT UDFFILT Modules NINA B41X 40B Attributes Syntax Settings saved Can be aborted Response time Full Yes No 7 2 1 Description Configure a filter to decide which tags to track T...

Page 21: ...ng 6 HEX chars Yes 7 2 4 Notes This setting takes effect immediately Use the command W and CPWROFF to store the configuration to startup database Maximum filter length is 100 All hexadecimal data need...

Page 22: ...utput UUDF events at startup without the need to call UDFENABLE 4 0 30 MAC address String Anchor ID This sets the Anchor ID field in the UUDF event It can be useful when the host just blindly forwards...

Page 23: ...he packet angle was calculated anchor_id String The value set by UDFCFG param_tag 4 user_defined_str String The value set by UDFCFG param_tag 2 timestamp_ms Integer Time since boot in milliseconds Not...

Page 24: ...s Attention AT Manufacturer identification AT GMI Model identification AT GMM Software identification ATI9 Software version identification AT GMR Local address AT UMLA Store current configuration AT W...

Page 25: ...efinition AoA Angle of Arrival AoD Angle of Departure ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ARM Arm Advanced RISC Machines Holdings CPU Central Processing Unit CTE Constant Tone Ext...

Page 26: ...ANT B10 User guide UBX 22006906 R02 Appendix Page 26 of 29 C1 Public B C209 schematics...

Page 27: ...mynewt apache org latest newtmgr index html 7 s center https www u blox com en product s center 8 s center user guide UBX 16012261 9 FTDI website https ftdichip com drivers 10 u connectLocate product...

Page 28: ...28 of 29 C1 Public Revision history Revision Date Name Comments R01 29 Mar 2022 mape Initial release R02 3 May 2022 mape Noted the need to flash ANT B10 with u connectLocate in Software section Minor...

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