HW v4.9 Starter Set Setup & Configuration | Marvelmind

0:00 Hello colleagues. Today I'll be talking about basics of placement of beacons for starters at hardware version 4.9. The basics I talked about are majority of other big starter sets and overall systems, but I will be talking about the placement and basics of the placement on the example of this because this is probably the most popular one, the most profitable starter set that has been available for more than four years or something. So what would you have inside of a starter set? You have the stationary beacons. In case of this one, you have four stationary beacons. You have one mobile beacon. In fact, they are absolutely the same, so you can use any of them as a stationary beacon or as a mobile beacon. There's another starter set used to be, at least with IMU inside, then it's not the same. At least I am you.

0:57 Nothing, nothing result on all of this, but if hearing about basic hardware version 4.9, all of them are interchangeable. So it doesn't mean that you have four stationary beacons and one mobile. Any of them can be mobile, and of course, you have the Modem. The Modem is the central controller of the system, the most important element. I will not talk about basics like software update or default. Please check other videos where we are describing what to do, and of course, the operating manual. Operating manual is your manual—follow it. All the videos is just visual examples of what to do. It is not a replacement for the manual where everything is more detailed and everything is more step-by-step. Videos rather highlight some things based on the questions that we are receiving from our existing customers, the questions that we believe may be raised during your installation.

1:55 So you have four stationary beacons and one Modem. There is a placement manual on our downloads page. Please use it because it's describing models, the same, but you know in PDF format. So please adjust, use a medium-sized room, four by four, say six by six, ten by ten meter or similar, and you install beacons inside the room on the walls where and how, and this is what we do. Is about, if we look at the room, so this is your floor. So we suggest that you install the beacons somewhere on let's say two meters height. Why? So, but for example, you will be using them for tracking and you will be working around, so this is you know, it's a me with the.

2:52 Mobile beacon inside. So it means that in order to provide the direct line-of-sight, the mobile beacon is preferred to be above you and facing down or facing like this. And the mobile beacon, for it was, about stationary beacon's alignment, all beacon must be facing up. So it means that there will be always direct line of sight between the stationary beacons and mobile beacons with no obstruction. What do you remember? Beacons, hardware version 4.9, they have five ultrasonic sensors or transducers. It means that when you install the beacon by default, all of them are enabled, which gives the beacon their widest coverage but the least sensitivity. For ten by ten meters or even fifteen by fifteen meters, that's.

3:52 Enough. But if we are talking about thirty by thirty meters, the sensitivity with all transducers enabled will be not sufficient. Should mean that you must disable some of them in order to reach the thirty meters distance. But let's talk about default ten by ten meters for example. And for instance, install the beacons like this. Obviously, your mobile beacon may not go in this area because you are just working. So we recommend to disable the sensor there, which is facing up, because you don't need it. It will collect additional noise. It will reduce the sensitivity because it will load other sensors. So disable it. In case of these beacons, the same story. So this sensor is facing up just.

4:46 Disabled. How to disable? There is a table in each beacon, so you can choose the beacon and you can see the tables. So enable our X1 or X2, and you can see their letters here near to issue their sensors. So enable only those that you need. By default, all of them are enabled. That's fine for small room or let's say easy settings, like quiet room, no external noise. Another graduate. So default is safe choice. But when you go a bit further, you have more complex environment, or you have noise, or you have large reasons, something. You must do this in order to achieve the largest performance. So disabled, so this will be activated, this will be activated. For example, this will be activated, activated, and number five, which is facing up, will be not activated. You don't need it if you.

5:45 For example, use very long distance, you may be able to, and you have pretty narrow angle, so you may not need at least, I mean, all of them. You may need only one sensor, which is our RX4. If you install the beacon like this, so each of the sensors, they have around ninety degrees, B. Of course, it can hear the signal coming from this, but it will be more attenuated. So this is why we have five of them. So four horizontal and one vertical. Is all together combined, they have a hemisphere covered. So it means that if you have a mirror beam and sufficient, so it's enough if you enable only RX4. Turn the beacon this direction. In this case, it will cover the this sector, which gives you their highest sensitivity and.

6:43 The least noise will be collected from these directions. So in order to do to teach the highest performance, enable only those sensors which are needed. It's about sensitivity and collecting of unnecessary noise. But let me repeat about the most important element and the only real requirement: at any point where you want tracking, there mobile beacon must see three or more stationary beacons with direct line-of-sight. This is the most requirement. It's like your satellite GPS satellite. If you don't see them, there is no tracking, not less precise tracking. The will be no tracking in the worst case when it's kind of semi-obstructed or let's say visibility is slightly obscured. You may have a very bad tracking. So it means that you must.

7:42 Provide the direct line of sight between your mobile beacon and it in stationary beacons. This is the main requirement. That's it about the basic placements. More details you can find in our placement manual, which is a download page. If something is unclear, we have some special case, or you want us to update or let's say deep in the information inside the placement manner, tell us info at Marvelmind.com, and we'll be happy to help you. Thank you very much.