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Table of contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 3
1.1 Applications ........................................................................................................................................... 3
2 Components ............................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Housing and power supply .................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 Processor .............................................................................................................................................. 4
2.3 Interfaces .............................................................................................................................................. 4
2.4 Technical data of interfaces .................................................................................................................. 5
2.5 Memory board and serial flash .............................................................................................................. 6
2.6 Multilingual feature with HTML tags ...................................................................................................... 6
2.7 Communication and security................................................................................................................. 7
2.8 Versions ................................................................................................................................................ 8
2.9 Open architecture ................................................................................................................................. 8
3 Commissioning .......................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Power supply and display ..................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Basic setting of AMBUS® Net............................................................................................................... 9
3.3 Meter list, commissioning the M-Bus and automatic meter search .................................................... 11
3.4 Network (Windows) ............................................................................................................................. 13
3.5 Communication via modem ................................................................................................................ 16
3.6 Data logger / CF card .......................................................................................................................... 19
4 Operation .................................................................................................................................................. 20
4.1 Summary of menu .............................................................................................................................. 20
4.2 Status message and general alarm .................................................................................................... 20
4.3 Reading the meter .............................................................................................................................. 21
4.4 The usage units .................................................................................................................................. 21
4.5 Monitoring the meters: the analysis usage unit ................................................................................... 23
4.6 Data logger (optional) ......................................................................................................................... 24
4.7 Meter list, manual meter readings ...................................................................................................... 26
5 Remote operation and system integration ............................................................................................ 29
5.1 SOAP: Creating a client with .Net ....................................................................................................... 29
5.2 Download protocol .............................................................................................................................. 32
6 Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................................................... 33
7 Appendix .................................................................................................................................................. 35
TABLE 1: SPECIFICATIONS OF HOUSING AND POWER SUPPLY .................................................................................. 4
TABLE 2: OVERVIEW OF INTERFACES ..................................................................................................................... 5
TABLE 3: COMMUNICATION AND SECURITY.............................................................................................................. 7
TABLE 4: SPECIFICATIONS FOR VERSIONS .............................................................................................................. 8
TABLE 5: SPECIFICATIONS FOR OPTIONS ................................................................................................................ 8
TABLE 6: TROUBLESHOOTING .............................................................................................................................. 34
TABLE 7: EXAMPLE OF METER PROTOCOL ............................................................................................................. 35
TABLE 8: EXAMPLE OF USAGE UNIT PROTOCOL .................................................................................................... 36
TABLE 9: EXAMPLE INSTALLATION PROTOCOL ....................................................................................................... 37