8: Sending Data to Your Network Application
• Retrieve the Unique | This chapter discusses how to configure the MP modem to |
Mobile Device ID | send GPS and I/O data to a network server. This is a simple |
| process, but if there are any firewalls on your network or your |
| service provider’s network, the data must be routed through or |
| around the firewall. A general discussion of some methods of |
| dealing with firewalls is provided. |
| This chapter also explains how to retrieve the Unique Mobile |
| Device ID from the MP modem. This is the number that |
| uniquely identifies each MP modem. Any application that uses |
| the GPS and I/O data from the MP modem requires this |
| number. |
| Configure the MP modem to | |
| route data to a server | |
| The protocol that defines how MP modem data is packaged is | |
Note: For a full list of AT | ||
commands and their parameters, | called MTP (Monitoring and Tracking Protocol). You can | |
see the MP 3G Modems AT | configure MTP in 3G Watcher by selecting Tools > Options > | |
Command Reference manual | MP > Monitor and Tracking, or by using the AT command | |
(document #2130810). | AT!MPMTCONF and the appropriate parameters. | |
| The MP modem provides four independent reporting engines, | |
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| allowing data to be sent to four different destinations. You can | |
| specify the destination IP address and port number for each | |
| engine. This allows, for example, GPS data to be sent to one | |
| host application, and I/O data to be sent to another. | |
| You can also specify the values for the timers that determine | |
| the frequency with which the data is to be sent. | |
| Report frequency timers | |
| The low rate timer, alert rate timer, and GPS timer control the | |
Note: You must configure alarm | ||
triggers locally on the MP | interval between reports from the MP modem. | |
modem using either 3G Watcher | The low rate timer sets the interval at which reports are sent in | |
or an AT command. | ||
the absence of any other trigger or timer. It is in minutes with a | ||
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