Activating a device on your IoT network

This topic explains how to commission devices in the LoRaWAN® network, and to enable or disable the network geolocation of a device.

If you are entitled to an Administrator role or to a Devices and Connection Manager role, specific commissioning tasks are explained.

Note If you are entitled to a viewer only role or to a Base Stations Manager role, then you can only view the results of the activation of your devices to your IoT network.

ThingPark Enterprise supports all Classes of LoRaWAN® devicesdevices

Note ThingPark Enterprise supports both Over-the-Air Activation (OTAA) and Activation By Personalization (ABP). OTAA is the preferred and most secure way to connect devices to the network. Devices perform a Join-procedure with the network, during which a dynamic DevAddr is assigned and session keys are generated. To learn more, click Activation modes.

The tasks are the following:

• Modifying the parameters of the device, such as model, class, name and additional information.

• Duplicating the device to quickly create a device by using an existing device as template: the same vendor, model, AppEUI, additional information, application and the same location are automatically selected.

• Deleting the device from the LoRaWAN® Network Server.

• Sending downlink packets to the device.

• Monitoring the connection status of the device and RF signal quality, view network activity recent history.

• Managing associated connections.

• Updating the device location.

• Determining which base stations receive the device signal.