Industrial-RX Omni: Forklift Beacon Unboxing | Marvelmind

0:01 Hello, colleagues. Let's do an unpacking of Industrial-RX Omni. So when you get the package, the package contains—let's see—okay, there's Industrial-RX itself. There's a full-size antenna. There's a four-pin connector to provide the power supply, and there's a seven-pin connector to interface the data. What data? Two pins for UART, two pins for RS485, two pins for USB, and one pin for power. Okay, that would be eight, but since it's only a seven-pin connector, for UART there's only streaming out and there's no reception. So we don't care whether you receive or not. We stream out the location data, and we hope you grab the

1:01 data. Oh, by the way, there are two magnets. So what are these magnets for? The magnets are—since this is industrial, it's pretty closed and, well, well-protected—but inside there is a reset. So it means that you can reset the device using a magnet, and you can put the device into DFU mode using another magnet. So it meant that, for example, if you say, okay, let's do the DFU programming, if you need to—because normally it's already done; only in case everything is crashed and you want to really upload the lowest-level software and the regular connectivity through the seven-pin and USB doesn't work anymore—then you do reset, you do DFU, and you will see in your DFU programmer—not in the Dashboard, but in the DFU programmer—you will see it

1:58 appears. Then you upload the DFU software. Then you remove the magnet, you remove the magnet, you put the reset once again, and then you check in the Dashboard—everything is DFU programmed. But again, you use it only in case everything goes wrong—for example, you just uploaded some wrong software or something. Normally, you just connect using USB cable. Remember, with this you do not get by default a seven-pin-to-USB cable, so it means that if you want connectivity, then you either order the cable separately—the cable is like this, seven-pin plus USB—or you create this cable by yourself, basically by grabbing a USB cable, cutting it, soldering it, connecting it. So you can do this as well. And then you use it. What's the peculiarity of this Industrial-RX compared to, let's say, other—okay

2:55 obviously it's Omni microphone. Omni microphone, as you know, comes from the name—it contains four microphones: one, two, three, four—which create 360 degrees horizontal and 360 degrees vertical reception diagram. So this is why this is particularly useful for applications like forklift tracking. Why now? Because this is typically installed somewhere on the roof. You know, there are holes, and this is flexible because everything warehouse-related—you know, people crash, people—and it's bendable. If it's bendable, so it's not so easily destroyable. For the power supply, we provide you a four-pin connector. You can use it basically soldered. You can open the operating manual, and out of these four pins, one is the power supply: five-volt power supply. Remember that all our

3:54 industrial beacons starting from 2022 use five volts. Previously we used to have twelve volts, but it turned out to be not as beneficial as five volts. So five volts power supply, ground, and in case the magnets are lost or you don't want to use them or you want to reset it remotely, there's a pin for reset and there's a pin for DFU. So it meant that everything is redundant. You can do the reset and DFU using magnets, or you can do the same using pins on this. Additionally, if you wish, you can supply using, for example, a DC-DC converter. DC-DC converter—we can highly recommend it. It has open wire, so you connect these open wires to your electricity grid on your forklift, for example, and then this is directly connected and providing five volts. So highly recommend it. We have similar AC-DC as well. So this is DC-DC. Oh, sorry, this is AC-DC. Okay, great. So this is AC-DC.

4:54 But we have similar DC-DC simply that has even longer cable, like four meters or something, so that you can directly connect to your forklift. So this is AC-DC, but they look very similar. And the connectivity, of course, is the same. By the way, all our connectors are absolutely the same with industrial beacons, with Industrial-RX Omni, with Industrial Super-Beacon, and for example with the Modem. The Modem has the same shape, the same connectivity, but of course inside it's a completely different thing. So about the Modem we will talk in the next video, but now back to the Industrial-RX. So what are the greatest benefits? Now obviously it's industrial, so it means that it's easy to connect, it's very, very rigid, it has a connectivity which is well ingress-protected. What is well ingress-protected? Well, previously we even put some compound inside, so it means that this

5:51 device wouldn't be even repairable and it could go up to explosion-protected. So there was no air inside, but it turned out to be not as beneficial for the customer. Some of them wanted to repair, some of them wanted to connect, disconnect, etc., etc., etc. So now we do not fill it in. So ingress protection slightly decreased, but still it has a very tight connection here. It has very tight connection here. Of course, this is also very tightly connected, so it means that it's really industrial—great type of thing. But it doesn't mean, for example, that you can put this underwater. No, no, it's not designed for that. It's a typical industrial application, so it meant that, you know, moisture, dust, rain doesn't disturb the work. It doesn't necessarily mean that if you expose it for a year to the rain it will still survive. Not

6:50 necessarily. What and how you use it? Okay, first of all, of course, you do connect the full-size antenna. The full-size antenna is bendable, which is a great benefit. Why? Because, for example, if you have a wall and if you connect like this, it will not be a good solution because the antenna will be too close to the wall and it will not work well. We have a special article about how to handle radio issues. And in general, radio—for example, if you have a mod antenna like this, and a Beacon something like this, it's not a good option either. Why not? Because it's cross-polarization and they will not receive well. But at the same time, if you put this antenna next to the wall, it will not be a good idea either, because the radio properties of the antenna will be hugely distracted by the wall. So what's the option? Okay, there's a compromise—something like this. So it's still good

7:49 enough for this and it's still already far enough from this. So it must be bendable. So the antenna is bendable. Another thing I already mentioned is so people heat the antenna. So at least this antenna has higher chances to survive than, for example, a very strong, very rigid, non-flexible antenna. So that's intentional. About the connectors—okay, we can see the connectors. I already mentioned it, so it's easy to connect. There's a key, so it's very, very easy to connect. But again, back to this—so this is the key, so this is the key—because you can put this on top of your forklift and you can hide it somewhere where it's more convenient, or you can still put it on the roof of your forklift, for example. But people are using it not only for forklifts but for many, many other applications, because it's basically easy. For example, we just recommended it for sports activities as well. Why? Because it's very easy to connect this onto the saddle. It's relatively light because

8:46 again, we don't pour the compound inside now, so it's relatively light and it's very easy to connect. So you don't need to solder, and it is basically rigid industrial. So we recommended it first of all for forklifts, second for all kinds of sports applications, for all kinds of applications where a relatively high level of ingress protection is required, where easy connectivity is required, and where the Omni microphone is required. It's a typical Omni microphone with the connector there, so you can basically disassemble it, disconnect it, and use it, for example, with your Super-Beacon, because the connector is there. So it's disconnectable—it's not solderable, but it's prepared for you. So it meant that you can use it right away out of the box. And recommended for all kinds of industrial applications, mainly forklifts. If you have any questions, as usual, please send us an email to info@marvelmind.com and we will be happy to answer them. Thank you very much.