Laipac StarFinder Aire Operating instructions
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Laipac Technology Inc.
20 Mural Street, Unit 5, Richmond Hill Ontario L4B 1K3 Canada
Tel: 905-762-1228 | Fax: 905-763-1737 | E-mail: info@laipac.com | http://www.laipac.com
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Content
1. Introduction to SF-Aire
1.1 Know about SF-Aire
1.2 LED Indicators and Working Status
1.3 Connection cable and its signal definition
2. Getting start
2.1 How to set up SF-Aire
2.2 SIM Card and its Installation
2.2.1 Requirement of SIM card
2.2.2 Installation of SIM card
3. Installation of Utility Software
3.1 Introduction to LocationNowSuite
3.2 How to get utility software
3.3 Installation of utility software
4. Installation of USB driver
4.1 Installing USB driver on PC with Windows 7/8 (Automatically)
4.2 Installing USB driver on PC with Windows 7 (Manually)
4.2.1 Pre-installation
4.2.2 Installation of USB driver
4.3 Check the installation of USB driver
5. Firmware update and configuration of SF-Aire
6. Configuration
6.1 SETUP
6.2 SYSTEM
6.3 I/O
6.4 APPLICATION
6.5 FILE
7. Installation guidance
Appendix A: An example for configuration of SF-Aire
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20 Mural Street, Unit 5, Richmond Hill Ontario L4B 1K3 Canada
Tel: 905-762-1228 | Fax: 905-763-1737 | E-mail: info@laipac.com |
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1 Introduction to StarFinder Aire (SF-Aire)
1.1 Know about SF-Aire
Fig. 1.1-1 to 1.1-3 show the locations and names of the major physical features with this product
Fig. 1.1-1 Top view of SF-Aire
Fig. 1.1-2 Bottom view of SF-Aire
Connection cable
LED indicators
Connector of external
GPS antenna
Installation hole x 3
Door for SIM card installation
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Fig. 1.1-3 The area behind Door
1.2 LED Indicators and Working Status
Fig 1.2 LED indicators
There are 3 color LED indicators on SF-Aire. They are as below
● Battery/Power LED indicator (Red) – indicate if device has been powered on by built-in
battery or external DC power supply
● GPS status LED indicator (Green) – indicate if device has located its position or not
● GSM status LED indicator (Yellow) – indicate if device has connected to GSM network or not
Mini USB Connector
Micro SIM card
receptacle
Reset Button
Battery/Power LED indicator (Red)
GPS status LED indicator (Green)
GSM status LED indicator (Yellow)
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Table 1.2 further describes how to identify the SF-Aire’s working status by observing
the behavior of those 3 LED indicators.
Function Battery/Power
LED GPS status
LED GSM status
LED
Powered by external power supply On
Powered built-in battery On
Without any power Off
Try to locate its position ON Flashing
Its position has been located ON ON
Try to connect GSM network ON Flashing fast
Connected to GSM network ON Flashing slowly
Table 1.2
1.3 Connection cable and its signal definition
No. Signal Name Description Wire’s colour
1 DC (+) External DC power supply (+) Red
2 GND Ground and External DC power supply (-) Black
3 Output 1 + Output port 1 connection + Light green
4 Output 1 - Output port 1 connection - Pink
5 Output 2 + Output port 2 connection + Purple
6 Output 2 - Output port 2 connection - Blue
7 Input 1+ Optical isolated input port (+) Dark green
8 Input 1- Optical isolated input port (-) Yellow
9 AD + Analog input port (+) Orange
10 AD - Analog input port (-) Grey
11 RS232 TXD RS232 data sending ( output from device) White
12 RS232 TXD RS232 data receiving (received by device) Brown
Table 1.3
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2. Getting Start
2.1 How to set-up SF-Aire?
The steps below outline what should be accomplished in order to operate SF-Aire.
Detailed descriptions of these steps will be described in the following sections.
1. Ask your tracking service provider to open a service account on the service platform
2. Ask the Password of this device under its service account
2. Install a valid SIM card on the device
a. If SF-Aire has never been set up on your computer
3. Find a computer with Microsoft Windows 7/8, internet access, IE 9 browser and
Adobe Flash Player 9.0 or above
4. Install the latest version of LocationNow Suite utility software
5. Connect SF-Aire to the computer though a USB cable
6. *Install USB driver on computer
7. Disconnect SF-Aire with computer
8. Run utility
9. Connect it to the computer again
10. Utility will check the firmware version and remind if device should update its firmware
11. Configure the device
12. Disconnect unit with computer
13. Reset device to have it start working with the desired tracking service platform
b. If your computer has been used to set up SF-Aire before
In this case, user can skips steps 5 to 8, which are for installation of USB driver.
Note:
* For computer being with Windows 7/8, if user fails to install SF-Aire’s USB driver by using
computer’s auto-installation process, he needs try pre-installation process. Please find the
detail in Section 4.2.
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2.2 SIM Card and its Installation
2.2.1 Requirement of SIM Card
In order to use SF-Aire, user should have a valid 2G micro SIM (Subscribe Identity
Module) card provided by his local GSM/GPRS service provider. This card can be
with both of the GPRS data and SMS functions enabled, or only one of them.
If only SMS plan being with the SIM card, user’s device will not able to access the
Location Based Service platform through GPRS network.
For example, if user wants to use Laipac’s LocationNow service platform to track his
SF-Aire, he needs have a micro SIM card with the data service plan.
For a SIM card with data plan, it should come with the following setting parameters
GPRS APN: The Access Point Name is used by your SIM card to connect to the
GPRS network. The Access Point is the carrier’s server through
which the traffic becomes converted from GSM to GPRS Internet
traffic.
GPRS APN User Name: The user name authorizes your SIM card to access your carrier’s
Access Point. It could be blank in most of case.
GPRS APN Password: The password authenticates your SIM card to access your carrier’s
Access Point. It could be blank in most of case.
Note:
(1) Some users may try the SIM card with his Smart Phone on his SF-Aire. In certain
case, this SIM card could have been bound to his Smart Phone only and can not be
used for his SF-Aire.
(2) If user is using LocationNow.com service platform from Laipac, in many
countries or area, he could use the SIM card provided by Laipac. For detail, please
contact Laipac’s Sales department.
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2.2.2 Installation of SIM card
Follow the steps below to install the SIM card into SF-Aire.
Step 1 Remove 2 screws on the door Step 2 Open the door
Step 3 Install SIM card Step 4 Insert card into the receptacle
Step 5 Push the card to the end Step 6 Close the door and tie 2 screws
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3. Installation of Utility Software
In order to use the position tracking service provided by Location Based Service
Platform, SF-AIRE should be properly configured by using a software utility tool,
LocationNowSuite.
3.1 Introduction to LocationNowSuite
“LocationNow Suite” is able to provide these two functions below
● Configuration
● Firmware Update
The computer, used for installing this utility, should be with
● Microsoft Windows 7/8 O.S. as well as USB 2.0 port (recommended)
● Internet access
● Microsoft IE9 or up browser (must)
● Adobe Flash Player V9.0 or up for Microsoft IE (must)
User must use IE browser to download Adobe Flash Player by using link below and
install it on his computer.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
This “Web-based” utility software package includes the following function parts
(1) Management of data communication between computer and SF-AIRE
(2) Management of firmware version
After completing the downloading and installation process of this package on user’s
computer, whenever utility is running and SF-Aire is connected to this computer,
utility software will automatically check firmware version on this connected device.
If the version is lower than the one latest issued by Laipac for this product, utility will
pop-up a window to remind user that a new version exists now, user can decide if he
wants to update his device to a new one or stay with the current one.
A remote server maintained by Laipac Technology Inc. will provide a backend
support when user is doing firmware updating on his computer through internet.
For detail of firmware updating and configuration procedure, see section 5.
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20 Mural Street, Unit 5, Richmond Hill Ontario L4B 1K3 Canada
Tel: 905-762-1228 | Fax: 905-763-1737 | E-mail: info@laipac.com |
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3.2 How to get utility software
User can download this utility software by using the link below
http://aws.locationnow.com/locationnow/
This software package is a compressed file with suffix “.7z” or “.zip”, such as,
“LocationNowSuiteWeb20141105.zip”. Decompress it to get the executable
program “LocationNowSuiteWeb20141105.exe”.
3.3 Installation of utility software
Follow “Setup Wizard” instruction, click “Next”, step by step, user can complete the
installation of this utility software easily. During installation, it is suggested to select
having an icon on user’s computer’s desktop. After completion of installation, an
icon below could be shown on desktop of user’s computer.
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4. Installation of USB driver
4.1 Installing USB driver on computer with Windows 7/8 (Automatically)
(1) Connect SF-AIRE to computer through the USB cable coming with SF-AIRE
(2) In most of case, computer screen’s bottom right corner can display hint bubble below
It means SF-AIRE’s USB driver has been installed successfully.
Depending on computer, it may appear other COM Port number here rather than
COM5, such as, COM 6, COM 9, …
Note:
User can refer to the method introduced in section 4.2.3 to check if this USB driver
has been installed successfully. If it fails and the computer’s OS is Windows 7, user
can try to install it manually by following section 4.2.
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4.2 Installing USB driver on computer with Windows 7 (Manually)
4.2.1 Pre-installation
Go to Start All Program LocationNowSuiteWeb Install Driver
Then, click mouse’s right button to get menu below select “Run as administrator”
Click “Install”
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Select “Install this driver software anyway”
4.2.2 Installation of USB driver
(1) Click to exit installation process
(2) Reset your computer
(3) Connect SF-AIRE to computer through the USB cable. If PC screen’s bottom right
corner displays hint bubble below, it means SF-AIRE’s USB driver has been
installed successfully. Depending on computer, it may appear other COM Port
number here rather than COM5, such as, COM 6, COM 9, …
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20 Mural Street, Unit 5, Richmond Hill Ontario L4B 1K3 Canada
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4.3 Check the installation of USB driver
If user’s computer is with Windows 7, user can follow the steps below to check if the
requested USB driver has been installed on his computer successfully.
(1) Using mouse to select and click the “Start” icon on screen’s bottom left corner
(2) Moving mouse to point to “Computer” and “right click” the mouse to get a pop-
up window. Moving mouse to point to “Properties”, then, click
(3) Select and click “Device Manager” on screen’s top left corner
(4) It will bring a window below
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(5) Click utility software icon below, shown on desktop, to run this utility
(6) Using Mini USB cable to connect SF-AIRE to this computer
(7) At this moment, in the “Device Manager” window, a new item, “Port
(COM&LPT)” will come out, if using mouse to click the icon, , on left of this
item, it will generate a item labeled as “Personal Tracer (COMX)”
(8) If user can see this item coming out and does not disappear, it means the requested
USB driver is installed successfully.
(9) If user is not able to see action described in step (7) and (8), or “Personal Tracer
(COMX)” comes out and disappear, he needs do operation below
• Disconnect device with his computer, then, reset his computer
• Re-do step (1) to (9) again by using the same USB port (must)
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5. Firmware update
Fig. 5-1 shows the flow chart for firmware update of SF-AIRE
Fig. 5-1
Start
Run LocationNowSuite Web utility
Connect device to computer through Mini USB cable
Utility will check the existing firmware version, if it is not the
latest one, user will be asked to update this device’s firmware
Disconnect USB cable then connect it again
Download the latest firmware to the device
Start configuration of SF
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Aire
Utility will download its latest version from Laipac and install it
on this computer
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The steps below describes the detail process
(1) Click utility software icon below, shown on desktop, to run this utility.
(2) Utility will check with its back-end server on Laipac side, and update itself to its
latest version. Fig. 5-2 is the cover page, pay attention to its version. Internet
connection is always requested.
Fig. 5-2
(3) Connect device to computer through Mini USB cable coming with SF-Aire.
Utility will check the application firmware version inside this connected device.
If the version is lower than the one latest issued by Laipac for this product, utility will
pop-up a window, shown as Fig. 5-2, to remind user that a new version exists now,
user can decide if he wants to update his device to a new one or stay with the current
one.
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Fig. 5-3
(4) If click “Yes”, utility will get the latest firmware from the server site on Laipac
through Internet and download it to device
Fig. 5-4
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(5) If updating process is done successfully, computer’s screen will shown Fig. 5-5
Fig. 5-5
(6) Disconnect plug of USB cable from the Computer’s USB port, then, plug into the
same USB port, Fig. 5-6 is shown on screen. It tells user his device is ready to do
configuration now.
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