Parsing Chirpstack Sensor Data with OptixEdge

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Description
Deploying a complete sensor data transmission system thru wireless LoRaWAN® technology with Optix Edge! Here the Optix Edge hosts a Chirpstack LoRaWAN® Network Server to manage the LoRa network (sensors and gateways) and a FactoryTalk Optix Application to subscribe per MQTT to retrieve, parse the data and display on an HMI or SCADA. For instance measuring the tank level fill. No internet and no cloud is needed.

Download ChirpStack LoRaWan on OptixEdge:
https://github.com/asqi-carter/chirpstack-docker-Optix-Edge

Download the sample Optix application here:
https://github.com/xavierflorensa/Chirpstack_client_OptixEdge

Contributed by Xavier Florensa – YouTube – LinkedIn – GitHub

Transcript:
(00:01) Hi everyone. In this video, I will show you how to implement uh data from sensor breathing with the optics edge with um private one network with no internet needed. So here we have a distance sensor ultrasonic distance sensor that transmits data through LO one network to a LO one gateway concentrator. And then on the Ox we have a network server with chest stack built with docker and portainer.
(00:51) Then the network server is also MQTT broker. So then with an optics application we can start uh client to subscribe to the data and this way we are able to show the level in the tank. So I will show you how this is working. Uh we can go to this network server. Okay. Where we see on the applications, our sensor that now it’s sending data.
(01:45) As we can see here, this is our time stamp. You hear receive some data messages every 20 seconds. Then yeah, we have the Jagner work server running in our Docker container. You can also take a look at the or one of blinks. Okay. And you can just start the optics application and as soon as I receive data packet each 20 seconds, we will be able to read the time level
(02:51) Here this is the whole payload. It has to be parsed. But here we have for instance the distance here also the battery and so on. You have a frame counter. And if I take the sensor now, the sensor I have on my desktop pointing to the floor. So I don’t have a tank here. But I have if I take the sensor with my hand and point to the ceiling.
(03:35) Now you have here the distance to the ceiling just to simulate uh change in distance. You also have the battery here to be aware when you have to check for maintenance concerning this the central. And this is all. I hope you enjoy and thank you very much.

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