SenPulse Single

This is an overview of the SenPulse Single, a device which is compatible with any existing pulse based meter and makes this data readily available online. This page will explain how to configure a SenPulse Single and connect it to the IoT platform.

Features

• Compatible with residential water-meters, gas or power

• Detects reverse flow

• Tamper detection

• Burst detection

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Configuration via Downlink

1. Navigate to the device and select Actions → Controls from the menu beside the device.

2. Select Device Config from the Downlink selection drop down menu and complete the downlink fields below.

3. Click Queue to add to the downlink queue.

To update Burst settings select Count Params from the Downlink selection drop down menu and complete the downlink form.

Click Queue to add it to the downlink queue.

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Synchronising the pulse count

Set the initial count on the platform

1. Navigate to your device and select Actions → Setup Device.

2. Select Data → Constants drop down menu.

3. Under Initial Count enter the current pulse count displayed on your meter.

4. Under Pulse Factor enter the multiplier to apply to the incoming counts.
   e.g. If your device emits 1 pulse every 10 liters enter a factor of 10.

5. Click Save.

Clear the count on the device

1. Navigate to your device and select Actions → Controls menu.

2. Select Count 1 from the Downlink selection drop down menu.

3. leave Count1 as 0 and change Update Count 1? to 1.

4. Click Queue.

We recommend setting up Alert Thresholds once you have fully configured your device.

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Tamper Detection

Most residential water meter adaptors include a tamper detection line. This is a wire that is constantly pulled to a high logic state if the wire is connected, the device has power and is attached to the physical water meter.

Therefore, if the Smart Meter is tampered with in anyway to prevent measurements it is instantly detected by the device and transmitted to the Platform. You can create an alert on the tamper value to be notified by SMS or email if this occurs, set the upper normal limit to 0.

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Burst Detection

This feature notifies the user if a specific hourly consumption level is crossed for a defined number of consecutive hours. The User defines the maximum hourly consumption with count burst and if this threshold is exceeded for a number of consecutive hours equal to count burst_hours an Alert is triggerd.

The figure below shows an example of this. The count burst threshold is exceeded at hour 5, 6, 7 and if the count burst_hours threshold is set to 3 an alarm will be triggered at hour 7.

Example

Consider a single pulse counter device connected to a residential water meter of a family that all leave the house for work and school during the day. Based on their usual usage, this family expects water consumption of about 300 counts per hour maximum. Therefore they configure their device with a count burst of 300. They set a count burst hours value of 3, which means 300 counts per hour must occur 3 hours in a row, to prevent a false alert under special circumstance. Imagine, then, Johnny is running late for school in the morning and, in a hurry, his bathroom tap is left on as he runs out the door. Then, after 3 hrs, the device will detect this as a burst and send an alert to the family. Conversely, imagine johnny’s entire soccer team comes around after their game and showers. This is unlikely to trigger an alert due to the 3 consecutive hour threshold.

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Configuration via serial

1. Connect the device to your PC via serial.

2. Now you can use the commands below to configure report rate, burst threshold and current time, similar to the example below.

Smart meter commands

Single counter example

The following snippet shows the configuration of a single counter device.

• wakeup base 360 – set to transmit every 6 hrs.

• count burst 500 & count burst_hours 6

  • burst triggered by more than 500 counts in an hour for 6 consecutive hours.

• flash save config – saves configuration in case of restart.

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Glossary of Terms

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