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Provisioning the Smart Power Cord to ConnectSense Cloud. 1.1 Overview of the ConnectSense Smart Power Cord LEDS There are 2 LEDs on the Smart Power Cord. Status LED: Blue, usually used to indicate relay on/off status Wi-Fi LED: Red or Yellow; indicates connection to Wi-Fi and AWS When holding the cord with the Push button below the LEDs, the Wi-Fi LED is on the upper left and the Status LED is on the upper right as shown below.
SoftAP The ConnectSense Smart Power Cord has an internal Wi-Fi radio. The Wi-Fi can be used in 2 different modes: Client Station mode – to connect to network Access Points (APs) SoftAP mode – allows host computers to connect to it for configuration For provisioning the Smart Power Cord to the cloud, we use the “SoftAP” or soft access point. The use of the SoftAP is temporary and is only enabled during the provisioning process.
1.3 Create an Account on the ConnectSense Cloud application First we must create a user account by going to the following web address. If you already have an account, jump to the next section www.cord.connectsense.com Click on the “Sign up” button That will show the following dialog box. Fill it out and click on the “Sign Up” button.
Now go back to: www.cord.connectsense.com and Sign in and sign into your account Your email will be verified. Click on “Confirm your account” to complete the account setup.
If it is successful, you will see the following screen.
1.4 Connecting the Smart Power Cord to the Network This section will show you how to Add the Smart Power Cords to ConnectSense Cloud and get them connected. This section assumes that you already have an account on the ConnectSense Cloud. The following is the Main screen for the ConnectSense Cloud application. You can add multiple Smart Power Cords to the ConnectSense Cloud. As you add them, they will display on this screen.
1. Select the “+” in the top left-hand pane to ADD a Smart Power Cord to the account For the first device you can click on “let’s add a new device” link to add a new device. This will bring up the following window. 2. Press and hold the push button for 15 seconds on the Smart Power Cord To reset and activate the Smart Power Cord’s SoftAP network, press and hold the push button for 15 seconds until you see the Wi-Fi LED flash Red.
4. Now, use your host computer to scan for available networks and then change the Wi-Fi connection to the network (SoftAP on the Smart Power Cord) named “CS-CORD-XXXXX” (where XXXXX is the unique serial number for each Smart Power Cord) When the Smart Power Cord gets a connection to the SoftAP, it will use its client station radio to perform a Wi-Fi scan of the environment and the screen will change to show all of the Access Points that it can see.
5. Now select a Wi-Fi network that you want the Smart Power Cord to use that will allow a connection to the Internet and AWS. Once you select a network, you will likely need to add the security passphrase to connect to the Wi-Fi network. The screen will change to this: Now the LED should go off and this screen below shows that the cord is now on the Wi-Fi network. The Smart Power Cord is now connected. The default name of this cord is “ConnectSense Cord”.
1.5 Display Modes There are currently 3 different display Modes – Pump, Appliance and Advanced. Each of these modes will display different information about the device attached to the cord. You can select more information about each device by selecting the cord. Below are the different display modes and more information screens. Pump Mode 1. Appliance Mode 2.
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5. Rules for shut down of the device (power on/off) and notification via text and/or email 6. Sample Text message which shows the name of the cord and parameter that trigged the event, note the relay and be turned off as part of the notification.
7. Settings - Change the name of the Cord, the reporting frequency, or removing a device 8.
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1.8 Smart Power Cord Specifications See the data sheet 1.
