NIBBLE GC-36 User manual

User Manual

Version 1.9

GSM Communicators

GC-36

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Version control

Date Author Version Description

20/04/2018 RAF V1.0 Initial document.

21/05/2018 TSF V1.1 Added power supply failure. Made changes to tamper detection description, SMS

protocol, PC conﬁguration, menus and access levels.

08/10/2018 RAF V1.2 Minor changes.

31/10/2018 OMS V1.3 Minor changes.

30/11/2018 RAF V1.4 Changed phone number alerts conﬁguration characters. Added more details to

periodic phone call functionality.

04/02/2019 OMS V1.5 Added new feature on costless phone call output actuation with input sensing.

15/03/2019 RAF V1.6 Added new feature for sending balance in all SMS including input alerts or only in

response to conﬁguration and control commands.

25/09/2019 OMS V1.7 Added new feature for enter SIM card PIN if locked.

26/10/2020 RAF V1.8 Changed I/O delays and impulses time limit from 3600,0s to 360,0s.

04/12/2020 RAF V1.9 Re-changed delays and impulses time limit to 3600,0s after software ﬁx.

Table 1: Version control

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Contents

1 Description ........................................... 5

2 Technical Features ...................................... 5

3 Installation and connections ................................ 6

3.1 PowerSupply....................................... 6

3.2 SIMCard ......................................... 7

3.3 Bidirectional inputs and outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.4 GSMantenna....................................... 8

3.5 USBinterface....................................... 8

4 Functionalities ......................................... 8

4.1 Localuserinterface ................................... 8

4.2 Accesslevels ....................................... 8

4.3 SMSconﬁguration .................................... 9

4.4 PCconﬁguration ..................................... 9

4.5 Monitoringandcontrol .................................. 9

4.6 Automatictestcalls.................................... 10

4.7 Low SIM card balance notiﬁcation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4.8 Tamperdetection..................................... 11

4.9 Power supply failure detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.10 Arming and disarming the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

5 Local conﬁguration ...................................... 12

5.1 Conﬁgurationmenu.................................... 13

5.1.1 ConﬁgureI/O ................................... 13

5.1.2 Conﬁgurephonebook .............................. 13

5.1.3 Conﬁgure tamper detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

5.1.4 Conﬁgureclock.................................. 14

5.1.5 Conﬁgureaccesscodes ............................. 14

5.1.6 Conﬁgure voice messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

5.1.7 Conﬁgurethesystem............................... 14

5.1.8 ConﬁgureGSM.................................. 14

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6 SMS conﬁguration ...................................... 14

6.1 Technical and conﬁguration commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

6.1.1 Conﬁgure inputs and outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

6.1.2 ConﬁgurenamesofI/Os............................. 16

6.1.3 ConﬁgurealertSMS ............................... 16

6.1.4 Conﬁgure outputs actions on input events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

6.1.5 Phonebook – Conﬁgure SMS alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

6.1.6 Phonebook – Conﬁgure voice alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

6.1.7 Phonebook – Conﬁgure actions on outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6.1.8 Phonebook – Conﬁgure all actions and events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6.1.9 Conﬁguretestcall ................................ 21

6.2 Usage and actuation commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

6.2.1 Change level 2 access code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

6.2.2 Change level 3 access code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6.2.3 Changedisarmcode............................... 23

6.2.4 Phonebook management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6.2.5 Ambientsoundcall................................ 24

6.2.6 Arm/disarmthesystem.............................. 25

6.2.7 Inputsandoutputs ................................ 25

6.2.8 Diagnostic..................................... 26

7 PC conﬁguration ....................................... 27

7.1 Connectionanddiagnostic................................ 27

7.2 Generalsettings ..................................... 28

7.3 I/Oconﬁgurations..................................... 28

7.4 Inputsconﬁguration.................................... 29

7.5 Phonebookmanagement ................................ 30

7.6 Eventlogs......................................... 31

7.7 Proﬁle ........................................... 31

7.8 Factoryreset ....................................... 31

7.9 Firmwareupdate ..................................... 32

8 Legal conditions ....................................... 33

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List of Figures

1 GC-36rearview ..................................... 6

2 Inputstateswithdrycontact............................... 7

3 Outputs states with open collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4 GC-36localuserinterface................................ 8

5 Menudiagram....................................... 12

6 GCConﬁgurator–Diagnostic.............................. 27

7 GC Conﬁgurator – General settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

8 GC Conﬁgurator – I/O conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

9 GC Conﬁgurator – Input conﬁgurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

10 GC Conﬁgurator – Phonebook management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

List of Tables

1 Versioncontrol ...................................... 2

2 Technicalfeatures .................................... 6

3 SMS commands base structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4 I/Oconﬁgurationcommand ............................... 15

5 I/Oconﬁgurationcodes.................................. 15

6 FieldsforI/Oconﬁguration................................ 15

7 I/Oconﬁgurationexample ................................ 16

8 I/O names conﬁguration command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

9 FieldstoconﬁgureI/Onames .............................. 16

10 Example of conﬁguration of I/O names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

11 SMS alerts conﬁguration command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

12 Fields to conﬁgure SMS alerts associated with input events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

13 Example of conﬁguration of SMS associated with input events . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

14 Commands to conﬁgure outputs actions on input events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

15 Codes to conﬁgure output actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

16 Fields to conﬁgure output actions in on input events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

17 Examples of conﬁguration of outputs actions on input events . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

18 Command for SMS alerts conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

19 SMS alert conﬁguration codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

20 Fields for SMS alert conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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21 Example of SMS alert conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

22 Command for voice alert conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

23 Voice alert conﬁguration codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

24 Fields for voice alert conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

25 Example of voice alert conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

26 Command for outputs actions conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

27 Outputs actions conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

28 Fields for outputs actions conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

29 Examples of outputs actions conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

30 Command for the conﬁguration of all actions and events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

31 Fields for SMS/voice input alerts and outputs actions conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . 21

32 Examples for the conﬁguration of SMS/voice alerts and outputs actions . . . . . . 21

33 Command for test call conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

34 Fields for the conﬁguration of test call period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

35 Testcallconﬁguration .................................. 22

36 Example for the conﬁguration of the test call period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

37 Command to change level 2 access code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

38 Fields for the change level 2 access code command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

39 Example of changing level 2 access code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

40 Command to change level 3 access code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

41 Fields for the command to change the level 3 access code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

42 Example of changing level 3 access code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

43 Command to change disarm code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

44 Fields for the command to change to disarm code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

45 Example of changing disarm code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

46 Commands to manage phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

47 Fields for the commands to manage phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

48 Examples of phonebook management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

49 Command for ambient sound call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

50 Command to arm/disarm the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

51 Fields to arm/disarm the system or single input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

52 Example to arm/disarm the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

53 Command to read and/or actuate inputs/outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

54 Fieldsforoutputaction.................................. 26

55 Examples for reading inputs status and outputs actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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56 Commandfordiagnostic................................. 26

57 Examplefordiagnostic.................................. 26

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1 Description

Congratulations on your purchase of the NIBBLE GC-36 GSM Communicator module!

The NIBBLE GC-36 module was developed taking into account security and remote mainte-

nance needs. Therefore, the module can operate completely by itself providing remote mainte-

nance functions, automatic output actuation (actuation on incoming call and on input changes)

and automatic input alerts (SMS and audio).

The module allows for custom SMS and audio messages for each input, tamper and power

supply status changes.

It is also possible to associate with each input state actuations on the outputs to provide basic

functions like turning on a water pump when ﬂooding is detected or activating a siren when an

intrusion is detected.

It is also available the functionality to actuate on the outputs through phone calls allowing for

an easy and costless way to activate outputs.

All these features can be conﬁgured in the following ways:

• Via local user interface (see section 5);

• Via SMS commands (see section 6);

• Via a Windows application with local USB connection (see section 7).

All the software tools and manuals may be found online at

http://www.nibble.pt/product/viewp/gc.

2 Technical Features

• Local interface with 2x16 alphanumeric LCD and capacitive keypad;

• 6 bidirectional input/outputs;

• Micro-USB;

• 150 users;

• SMS and voice message alerts for each input;

• Periodic test calls;

• SIM card balance indication (country restriction);

• Disarm code;

• Access levels 2 and 3;

• Output actuation with input changes;

• Output actuation with costless phone call;

• Tamper detection;

• Power supply failure detection;

• Internal antenna (optional external not included);

• Backup 9V battery Ni-MH (not included).

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Power supply +12/32V

Standby consumptions 30mA @ 15VDC

Communication consumption 100mA @ 15VDC

Operation temperatures 0ºC to +80ºC

GSM antenna Internal (optional external MMCX)

Communications GSM Quad-band

Battery Rechargeable 9V Ni-MH (not included)

Enclosure ABS UL-94-HB

Dimensions 116.5x104.5x32mm

Weight 165g (220g with battery)

Table 2: Technical features

3 Installation and connections

Installation of the GC-36 is done in the following steps:

1. Pre-conﬁguration of the equipment via the PC application - optional;

2. Inserting an activated SIM card without PIN code lock;

3. Connection of external peripherals (sensors, actuators or other auxiliary devices);

4. Power connection and, optionally, backup battery;

5. Placing the device in the desired location;

6. Conﬁguration of the equipment via the local interface – optional;

7. Enabling tamper detection – optional;

Figure 1: GC-36 rear view

Figure 1 features the rear view of the

GC-36 detailing the inputs/outputs, inter-

faces and power.

3.1 Power Supply

The module can be powered with a 12

to 32VDC power supply. Whatever the cho-

sen voltage, the power supply must provide

at least 12W (i.e.: 12V 1A) and allow for

current peaks of up to 2A. The positive ter-

minal of the transformer must be connected

to the ‘+’ terminal of the module’s PWR con-

nector and the negative to the ‘-’ terminal.

An optional rechargeable 9V Ni-MH battery

should be connected to ‘+’ and ‘-’ termi-

nals of the module’s BAT connector. For

the optimum performance of the battery, a

15VDC power supply to the module is rec-

ommended.

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3.2 SIM Card

To insert the SIM card, slide the cover and insert it into the slot.

The SIM card PIN code is requested if it is not deactivated. After 3 failed attempts an error

message is displayed, the module must be restarted and the SIM card must be unlocked with the

PUK code without GC-36.

To beneﬁt from all the features, your SIM card should allow for the sending and receiving of

SMS and phone calls.

The card can be postpaid or prepaid.

3.3 Bidirectional inputs and outputs

The bidirectional inputs and outputs can be accessed in IO1 to IO6 terminals. Each IO terminal

is accompanied by a ground terminal to facilitate the connections. Each IO terminal allows the

application of voltage levels from 0V to 40V.

Inputs

The inputs have negative logic, that is, they are activated when a ground signal is applied to

the IO terminal. To actuate on the inputs, a dry contact should be used with one of the contacts

connected to the adjacent ground terminal, as shown in ﬁgure 2. No voltage should be applied on

the inputs.

Off On

IONION

GND GND

Figure 2: Input states with dry contact

Outputs

The outputs are open collector type. When activated they close the circuit to the ground and

when deactivated they open the circuit, as is shown in ﬁgure 3. Each output allows up to 500mA

maximum current and 40V maximum voltage.

Off On

40V

Max

0.5A

Max

Figure 3: Outputs states with open collector

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