Wireless Device Commissioning with Webpages

Commissioning Principle

The principle of wireless device commissioning consists of two steps:

Pairing the wireless devices with the gateway
Configuring the wireless devices

Pairing Principle

The scanning feature of the gateway is used to discover the wireless devices present in the gateway environment. The gateway assigns a Modbus address to each wireless device based on the order of discovery.

If you define and upload a pairing list, the gateway will only pair the wireless devices belonging to this list. Refer to Selective Pairing of Wireless Devices with Webpages.

The available options for pairing process are:

Free Pairing (refer to Free Pairing of Wireless Devices with Webpages) is recommended when:
- no particular Modbus address plan is required.
- pairing 20 wireless devices maximum.
Controlled Pairing (refer to Controlled Pairing of Wireless Devices with Webpages) is recommended when:
- a Modbus address plan is required.
- pairing more than 20 wireless devices.
It is applicable when:
- the wireless devices can be individually powered.
- the power supply of each wireless device is protected individually by a circuit breaker.

NOTE: If you have multiple panels and if each panel has wireless devices, then it is recommended to switch on the power and commission each PowerTag Link gateway one by one, if possible. This helps to discover only the required wireless devices specific to each PowerTag Link gateway, and avoids discovering the long list of devices.

If other PowerTag Link gateways are powered on while you commission a new PowerTag Link gateway, the new PowerTag Link gateway automatically selects the less polluted radio channel, and creates its network on a different channel than the previous PowerTag Link gateways. This avoids having all the wireless devices on the same radio channel.

However, if all panels are powered on and commissioned simultaneously, then locate only the required wireless devices in multiple panels and reject the ones that you do not want to configure with the panel currently commissioned. All the rejected wireless devices can be auto-discovered again from another PowerTag Link gateway without any issues.