Cellular devices

Users with either the Administrator role or the Device, Multicast Groups and Connections Manager role may activate devices on ThingPark. Other roles cannot execute these procedures.

Before activating cellular devices, you need to define at least one network context. To learn more, see Managing network contexts.

Unitary device provisioning

Ensure that you have all parameters ready to be set prior to selecting your device provisioning form. To learn more, click Device attributes.

1. From the left panel, select Devices, and click ADD DEVICE in the Devices page. Alternatively, from Dashboard, click in the DEVICE widget.

2. In the Selecting the manufacturer section, select one of the Device Manufacturers displayed on your screen.

   1. If your device manufacturer is not displayed, click View More Manufacturers and select the manufacturer you want.
   2. If the manufacturer or model is not listed, select Generic.

3. Select the Model of your device.

4. Fill the Name and SIM identifier fields of your device.

5. Optionally fill the Enforced IMEI with the IMEI of your device if you want ThingPark to reject any traffic corresponding to another IMEI.

6. If the permission segregation based on domains has been enabled by an administrator, associate your device with Domains. If your user account has domain restrictions, the associated domains must match your domain restrictions without any domain prefix (only full domains can be assigned to resources). See About domains for more details.

   

7. Select from Connectivity plan the connectivity plan you want to use with the device. To see all the connectivity plans of your account, along with their supported features, see Listing connectivity plans.

8. In Choose Your Network Context, select the Network context that you want to associate with your device. To learn more, see Managing network contexts.

9. In Associate Your Device With Your Connection, select one or several Connections that you want to associate with your device.

10. In Set Your Device Location, do one of the following:

    • If you do not want the device to be located, select No location if available in the list.

    • If you want to manually configure the static position of your device, select the Manual mode and enter the location using one of the following options:

      • Either via the Search box on the top of the map,
      • or by directly placing the marker on the map,
      • or by setting the latitude and longitude in text input below the map. The compass button allows switching between decimal and degree/minute/second formats.

11. If you want to provision another device with the same model, connectivity plan, network context, connections, additional information, location mode, and position, check the Add another box.

12. Click ADD to finish the provisioning process of this device.

Bulk device provisioning

You can massively add devices by importing a CSV file. To learn more, see Executing bulk operations.

Managing network contexts

A network context manages the IPv4 connectivity of associated cellular devices and defines the communication modes.

Adding a network context

1. Select Network Contexts

2. Click ADD NETWORK CONTEXT

3. Enter your network context information (mandatory fields are marked by * in the user interface):

   • Name

   • Mode: select the communication mode that will be used by associated devices. To learn more, see Modes of communication.

   • Microflow events reporting: if direct IP mode is enabled, microflow events may be reported through the connections associated with the cellular devices.

   • Direct IP traffic destination: if direct IP mode is enabled, enter the IPv4 address receiving devices direct IP traffic encapsulated using Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE).

   • Message mode source UDP port: if both message mode and direct IP mode are enabled, select the UDP source port used to distinguish message mode to direct IP mode.

4. Configure the IPv4 connectivity of your devices: Subnet, DHCP pool and DNS.

Viewing and modifying network contexts

1. Select Network Contexts

2. Click the name of the network context you want to change.

3. On the network context page, change the information you want.

   -> A confirmation notification displays on your screen.

Deleting a network context

1. Select Network Contexts

2. On the row of the network context you want to delete, click ..., then Delete.

   note

   You cannot delete a network context associated with at least one device.

3. Click Delete to confirm.

   -> A confirmation notification displays on your screen.