ThingPark is Actility’s platform, in which you can register your LoRaWAN gateway and end devices. ThingPark offers a user-friendly dashboard, in which you can monitor different information about the gateway/end device like status, radio traffic, statistics, and more. Together with HTTPS integration, you can send the data received from the end nodes to an Application server for post-processing and visualizing.
In this guide, you will learn how to connect a RAK WisGate Edge Gateway to the ThingPark Enterprise platform via Basics Station.
| 📝 NOTE: To connect the gateway to the ThingPark Admin console, the gateway must be updated to the latest version of WisGateOS. If the WisGateOS version is previous to 1.3.6, update to the latest firmware. To update the gateway, refer to the Flash Firmware section of the WisGateOS User Manual. |
Register the Gateway in ThingPark
Log in to the ThingPark Admin console. If you do not have an account, you need to create one.
On the Admin console, navigate to the Base Stations drop-down menu and choose Create.
On the CREATING A BASE STATION menu, choose View More Manufacturers.
On the Select Your Base Station Manufacturer window, find and choose RAK Wireless. You can either scroll down manually or type RAK in the Type to search manufacturers in the list search field.
You will be redirected to the CREATING A BASE STATION page.
On the CREATING A BASE STATION, fill in the following information:
- Model – From the drop-down menu, choose the model of your gateway.
- Name – Fill in a name for your gateway.
- LLR-UUID – This is the base station universal unique identifier. It must be in the following format: 0016C0-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, where the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the EUI of the gateway. You can find the EUI on the label of the gateway, or the Overview page in the webUI of the gateway field.
- RF Region – Choose the band of the gateway from the drop-down menu.
- Additional Information – Optionally, you can type any useful information for the gateway.
- Position – Set the location of the gateway. You can either type the address in the Search field, manually select the location on the map below the Search field, or type the coordinates below the map.
Once everything is set, click Create to register the gateway in ThingPark.
A confirmation window will pop up. Click VIEW THE BASE STATION.
You will be redirected to the Dashboard of the registered gateway.
Now, configure the gateway to connect to ThingPark. Access the gateway webUI. Refer to the documentation of your gateway to see how to access the webUI.
Navigate to LoRa®. By default, the gateway works in built-in network server mode.
From the Mode drop-down menu, choose Basics Station and click Switch mode to change the mode.
Once the mode is changed, fill in the following settings:
- Server – ThingPark uses CUPS protocol. Select CUPS Server.
- URI – For the URI, copy and paste this address: https://community.thingpark.io
- Port – CUPS uses port 443.
- Authentication Mode – ThingPark uses TLS Server Authentication. From the drop-down menu, choose
- TLS Server Authentication. A trust field will pop up. Fill it with the AmazonRootCA1.cer certificate.
Once all the fields are filled in, click Save & Apply to save the changes.
If everything is set up correctly, you can see that the gateway is connected to ThingPark in the STATUS area in ThingPark.
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